Derrick Barnes Calls Canceling School Visits Cowardly
Award-winning author Derrick Barnes’ school visits to Alabama were canceled after the superintendent called him a “controversial guy.” More
College Board’s Revision of AP African-American Studies Curriculum Dilutes the Course Content in Apparent Capitulation to Censors
Jeremy C. Young, senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America, released the following statement: "Coming in the current political climate, the proposed changes appear to be an… More
Black Reporters in Conversation: Tammy Gibson
“We can't afford to let someone else tell our story." More
Black Reporters in Conversation: Karen Jacobs
"The St. Louis American has been the most trusted voice of Missouri's African-American community for almost 100 years." More
The PEN Pod: Truth Telling with Sanderia Faye
“We are the truth-tellers—even in fiction, we are the truth-tellers. We have to continue to write, and even beyond our pain, we have to continue to write.” More
The PEN Pod: Recovering Lost Stories and How They Can Inspire the Present with Fatima Shaik
“In the Economy Society, their motto was ‘to help one another and teach one another, and put out a hand to suffering humanity.’ Now, I think that resonates with… More
Black History in Its Own Words
“In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing, anti-humanism.” More
Manifesto: 1965
The African image is not then an image by equation but an image by analogy, a surrealist image. Africans do not like straight lines and false mots justes. Two… More
Life Is Messy, Writing Is Messy: An Interview with Danielle Evans
I sometimes wonder what critics would say if they couldn’t mention race until the second paragraph. It’s a shame, because the book is really about so many other things.… More