The complete online text of The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt.

Charles W. Chesnutt was the first important Afro-American writer of fiction to enlist the white-controlled publishing industry in the service of his social message, touching a significant portion of the white American reading audience with his indictment...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt, a "voluntary Negro" (one who, though so fair as to be mistaken for white, chooses not to "pass"), was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest child of Andrew Jackson Chesnutt and the former Ann Maria Sampson, free blacks, who in 185...

Charles Waddell Chesnutt was America's first important black writer of fiction; no black American before him had created a sustained body of significant work. Since his life spanned nearly two halves of two different centuries, his writing reflects both...

State investigators, hoping to identify one of two women whose bones were found on the grounds of a boys' school in Marlborough, yesterday released computer-generated images of the woman. Marlborough and State police have been frustrated by their inability to identify the remains...

So what do the new women's magazines tell us about the New Woman? Three new publications have appeared more or less simultaneously -- Jane, Sports Illustrated Women/Sport, and Conde Nast Sports for Women -- vying for distaff mind share and the almighty Clairol advertising...