Over the 400-year course of African-American history, there have been many inspirational, irreplaceable voices speaking to the hearts and minds of our people through literature. They are men and women who reside alongside the canon of great American authors. Below, find 10 Black authors whose works should be featured in every American’s e-reader for the 21st [...]
Toni Morrison Receives Medal of Freedom
May 30, 2012 | Posted by
Saying that she brings the world a “moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt,” President Obama yesterday presented Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison with a Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House. Morrison and twelve other people, including musician Bob Dylan, Girl Scouts Founder Juliette Gordon Low and Shimon Peres, [...]
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 [...]
Does Toni Morrison Deserve A Place in the Literary Pantheon?
May 3, 2012 | Posted by
Toni Morrison never liked that old seventies slogan “Black is beautiful.” It was superficial, simplistic, palliative—everything her blinkered detractors called Morrison’s complex novels when the 1993 Nobel Prize transformed her into a spokeswoman and a target. No better were those blinkered admirers who invited themselves to touch her signature gray dreadlocks at signings, as though [...]
Toni Morrison to Receive President Medal of Freedom
April 29, 2012 | Posted by
Iconic writer Toni Morrison will be adding one more distinguished award to an already packed trophy case: Morrison has been chosen by President Obama to be one of this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Morrison has previously won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize, making her one of the most [...]
