American author Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994) wrote "Invisible Man," a classic 20th-century American novel. He was an early spokesman among African Americans for the need for racial identity. Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City on March 1, 1914. Hi...

Centuries hence, when the important Afro-American writers of our day are studied, perhaps Ralph Ellison--novelist, short-story writer, and essayist--will be considered the most indispensable. Already, a great many critics think that his Invisible Man (19...

Though his reputation rests on a single novel, many critics consider Ralph Ellison to be the preeminent Afro-American writer, and others have argued that Invisible Man ranks with the most significant American literary works of this century. In the thirty...

In an incident in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man(1) described in the novel's prologue, the unnamed black protagonist/narrator goes to the point of killing a white man for calling him an insulting name when he accidentally bumps into the man one night. In a...

Juneteenth BY JONATHAN COLEMAN If you head east out of Waco, past the spot where the Branch Davidian complex used to be, in less than an hour you will find yourself in the little town of Mexia, home to some of the...

Police in riot gear dispersed the crowd at the city's Juneteenth Day celebration after a man was pulled from a car and beaten and an officer was injured trying to break up a fight."During the day the crowd was very well behaved and everything was...

A state legislator who sparked outrage by saying black Virginians should "get over" slavery proposed a resolution Monday celebrating slavery's demise.Del. Frank D. Hargrove proposed Virginia officially celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. It refers to the date...