Gabriel Okara is the first significant English-language black African poet, the first African poet to write in a modern style, and the first Nigerian writer to publish in and join the editorial staff of the influential literary journal Black Orpheus...

Superior Court Judge Barbara A. Dortch-Okara yesterday was appointed the new chief justice for administration and management of the state trial court, the first woman and the first black to occupy that office. The announcement that Dortch-Okara will succeed Judge John J. Irwin...

The Break-Up Vivid performances animate a dead marriage in Chereau's explosive chamber piece Gabrielle Directed by Patrice Chéreau IFC, opens July 14 Joseph Conrad's short story '"The Return" (written in 1897 but not published until 1923) is a domestic-bourgeois...