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As part of One Book, One Chicago, we're featuring a series of original essays titled Chicago Heroes: Real & Imagined! Each month through spring 2015, meet a local hero as introduced by a local author. Chicago authors will reflect on heroes from the...

See this story at CaribbeanLifeNews.com. By Nelson A. King The Center for Black Literature at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College (CUNY) says former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove and literary pioneer Charles Johnson will be among honorees at the 13th National...

March/April 2014 Charif Shanahan The executive director of the Center for Black Literature celebrates a decade of service and looks forward to this month’s National Black Writers Conference in New York City. Article Thumbnail:  brendagreene...

Reclaiming Black Women of Distinction - by Sonia Adams, Guest Blogger Sonia Adams is an Independent Literary Scholar, Educator, and Poet.  Her areas of scholarship are Transnational Ethnic Women’s and Multicultural American Literatures...

September/October 2016 Tara Jayakar State: Pennsylvania At the University of Pittsburgh, poets Dawn Lundy Martin, Terrance Hayes, and Yona Harvey recently established the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics—a creative think tank dedicated...