William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, died Tuesday at his home in Washington, D.C. of prostate cancer. He was 76. When Raspberry became a columnist at The Post, the only syndicated black columnist in mainstream media was Carl Rowan. While some media critics would try to link their styles and political [...]
Toni Morrison’s New Novel, ‘Home’
May 16, 2012 | Posted by
There are topics you may think you’ve had enough of — racism, slavery, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust — but then you read a book like Toni Morrison’s new novel and realize, as Samuel Beckett put it, “All has not been said and never will be.” Home is gorgeous and intense, brutal yet heartwarming — and could [...]
