Beacon Press / Wulf Bradley Born in Chicago and raised in Alabama, WJ Lofton’s creative work breathes life into the ...

Eventually, we came up with this poem: Black Hair Tie. Into the infinite portal: ... So don't dismiss poetry as only being about love, life, death, and the current political climate.

Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and ...

The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

Jennifer Bartell Boykin, The Mixsress, Jahnna Blyden, Atiba Smith and Kari Lebby told Free Times what "liberation" means to ...

Four years after being officially recognized as a national holiday, Juneteenth will be celebrated throughout City with an ...

In his largest ever American institutional show, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the nonagenarian painter is an unparalleled ...

Discover the essence of Juneteenth as a day of reflection and joy, highlighting the voices of Black changemakers and leaders.

Here is what I've observed in his poems over the years that have helped me develop the iconography—symbols, language, and themes—of my poems. Mise-en-scène. If we think of the nouns and verbs of a ...

Tricia Hersey is known as the Nap Bishop. The Chicago native founded the Nap Ministry in 2016 under the framework “rest is ...

Composed by Joel Thompson and penned by librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, this collection of 12 songs is a tribute to the ...