A million congratulations to my Rutgers-Newark colleague Tayari Jones , on the publication of her new, fourth novel, An American Marriag...

A contemporary illustration showing Juan Rodriguez (holding pan) establishing a trading post with Native Americans on Manhattan Island ...

One more week of classes to go, and the fall semester, my first at Rutgers-Newark , will conclude. At times it has felt like it passed in a...

Yesterday I mentioned the author Sapphire , from whose novel Push director Lee Daniels created his new film Precious . Journalist, critic...