Life behind bars means death behind bars, and all the pain and frailty that often precedes it - a fate that awaits a good ...

King spoke to human flourishing: how people are educated, how communities sustain themselves, how faith shapes courage, how ...

In the space of an Ikoyi prison cell, a legend was forged – not just the story of Fela Kuti, but the story of a nation. Majemite Jaboro's The ...

Some members of the group are awaiting trial; some are serving short sentences. In the meantime, with little else to do, they have intense discussions about literature.

Civil rights were never a demand—they were an insistence on equal protection under law. But for King, civil rights were not an endpoint; they were the foundation of a moral vision encompassing ...

Drawing from his time as Fela's cellmate in 1993, Jaboro constructs an oral-history narrative that doubles as a political archive.In "The Ikoyi Prison Narratives", Majemite Jaboro turns a Nigerian ...

Several publications have been written about Nigerian music icon, Afrobeat founder and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. However, ...

Black Americans. What began in 1926 has grown into an overall cultural observance of Black History in February ...

In 1995 The Liars' Club arrived on The New York Times' bestseller list and fashioned author Mary Karr as a thrilling, new ...

Poet Phyllis Wheatley, born in 1753, was freed on this day in 1773. Kidnapped in Africa and sold as a slave when she was only ...

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FRIDAY is the 50th anniversary of when the legendary communist Paul Robeson went on to enrich the ancestors.He was the classic example of an artist as revolutionary.Robeson, the son of a former ...