Students at Heritage Academy celebrated Black History Month with their sixth annual Poetry Slam, combining art and heritage ...

Michael Laskey has been awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry for the year 2025. The 81-year-old said he is "completely astonished" to find out he was winning the medal, which was established by ...

This week on Inside Appalachia, we talk with East Tennessee’s Amythyst Kiah. Her new album contemplates the cosmos. Also, hair salons are important gathering places where Black women can find ...

Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and Langston Hughes were just a few musicians and writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance.

For 100 years, the United States has officially celebrated Black history during February, including a parade, art exhibits and more in Oklahoma.

Detroit high school students competed for over $100K in college scholarships through poetry and art at the Pistons Foundation ...

“Black History: Deeply Rooted, Still Standing and Ever-Growing,” set for 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at Florida Tech’s Evans Library, promises an evening that salutes the past while recognizing ...

There’s the Langston Hughes era where Black folks are telling America, ‘Hey, we’re here. We’re American.’ We have the Mama ...

AUM’s 16th annual Southern Studies Conference will examine the South’s history, politics, literature, art and architecture, highlighted by keynote talks focusing on banjo craftsmanship and the essenti ...

The high church silence in-between poems is a lonely place to be as a poet,” Iain Haley Pollock joked to the audience in Cheever House, lifting the mood of those who had gathered for his poetry ...

Ashley Jones served as poet laureate for the state of Alabama from 2021 until 2025. During her four-year term, Jones said she ...