Maryrose Reeves Allen founded a wellness program at Howard University in 1925 that emphasized the physical, mental, and spiritual health of Black women.

As he lay bedridden with dysentery, the author wrote an astonishing number of haiku. What inspired him?

The name of this fourteen-line poetic form comes from the Italian sonetto, meaning "a little sound or song."

The "Capital of Black America" was also a world capital, thanks to the influence of West Indian–born artists and writers like Claude McKay.

As one activist said, “If our story is to be told, we will have to write it and photograph it and disseminate it ourselves.”

A Black Bohemia flourished in New York before the Harlem Renaissance and with it a new type of self-determined, contradictory Black celebrity.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel embraced jazz, while also falling prey to the racist caricatures associated with it.

An interview with author Jordy Rosenberg about his mesmerizing novel, Confessions of the Fox.

The excitement of the FIFA World Cup is exemplified by the songs that become World Cup anthems—both official and unofficial.

Double identity, present in both Marvel's Black Panther and in the critical race theory of double-consciousness, enables black American viewers to see their two identities played out on screen.