Frank X. Walker, a groundbreaking poet, educator, and literary advocate has earned a spot in the Kentucky Writers Hall of ...

Maya Angelou, an influential visual poet, and civil rights activist, remains a cornerstone in Black history. Her work inspires courage, resilience, and to be proud of your culture. This legacy makes ...

Getting a good education involves more than learning math and geometry equations, memorizing major moments in history or learning lines from a poem written by a 17th century author. Emotional ...

The Booker Prize-winning writer says he wrote his latest book to “let the past, present and future address each other across the barriers of time” ...

Barkley has consistently given shout-outs to his former teachers. And they have all echoed that the Eagles running back's ...

Telling Our Stories: Black American History Celebration, 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 15. Chesapeake Public Libraries is hosting poet Sharran C. Taylor (aka Kween Yakini). The program will include original poetry ...

Call it the rise of the hyphen-comedy. This was the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s secret weapon: they were almost all pretty funny. Romcoms have grown rarer, but they’re still more common than ...

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Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Black history is American history, and two local teachers shared how they integrate Black history lessons throughout the ...

We continue a tradition this year by reprinting a holiday classic in our Christmas edition of the Independent Review. The following letter and editorial response appeared in ...

I write this as Israel’s genocidal practices seem unstoppable, with no ceasefire in Gaza or Jenin. I am trying to fathom the ...