It has been a while since I posted poems for Black History Month, but this year  Rutgers-Newark made it fairly easy by inviting me to tape s...

The signs read, "Brazil is quilombo residents; not one less quilombo" All over the Americas, when fugitive slaves had the op...

Langston Hughes in Harlem, 1959. (The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) Happy Black History Month!  February ushers in the month ...

A young Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., high school basketball star at Power Memorial Catholic during the Catholic High School Athletic As...

Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Happy Black History Month! February 1 is also the birthday of Langston Hughes  (1902-1967),...

February 1 always marks the start of US Black History Month, as well as the birthday of one of the greatest poets this country gave the ...

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X (Ralph Abernathy in the backgorund) Happy Black History Month! I find myself deeply im...

Pastel drawing of Hughes by Winhold Reiss Today is the first day of Black History Month , one of many gifts that Carter G. Woodson ga...

(Nesta Robert) Bob Marley was born today in 1945, in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica , and died on May 11, 1981, in Miami, Florida . It goes ...

Today begins Black History Month , which is celebrated throughout the month of February in both the United States and Canada (in UK it occur...

Over the last year I've gone through alternating or oscillating waves of planning to end this blog and feeling energized enough to conti...