Gwendolyn Brooks (born 1917) was the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is best known for her intense poetic portraits of urban African Americans. Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. The eldest chi...

Gwendolyn Brooks holds a unique position in American letters. Not only has she combined a strong commitment to racial identity and equality with a mastery of poetic techniques, but she also has managed to bridge the gap between the academic poets of her...

Throughout her career Gwendolyn Brooks has been committed to a political vision of black liberty and equality while refusing to sacrifice the complexity and sheer beauty of her art. In light of her achievement she has become considered by many to be one...

Schleier, Curt The Jewish Week 04-22-2005 Comedy Central star left behind fleeting thoughts of the rabbinate to become a spirited performer. Lewis Black as a child wanted to become a rabbi. Yes, that Lewis Black. The acerbic, fed-up-with-all-forms-of-stupidity, fingers-flailing-in-the-air comedian wanted to...

The battle over racial identity in Brazil Brazil is often described as a "racial democracy" because of the high number of interracial marriages and easy banter between the races in everyday life. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In 1997, Margarida...

The game starts with you playing as Keller, a military operative who messed up a few missions and is now being questioned by a government agent about what happened. There’s a Spy Game-type of story telling with Keller giving up details as to what happened...

The Lincoln Review, a Washington-based black think tank, published an article titled "What Does the Future Hold for Historically Black Colleges?" in its September/October 2007 edition. It recalled the experiences of Bill Maxwell, a St. Petersburg Times columnist and editorial board member, when in 2004...