This collaboration is between the university’s Black Student Alliance and Center for Diversity and Inclusion. The artwork ...

Democrat’s Black History Month poster and essay contest is now accepting entries. Students in all grades at area schools are eligible to participate. The deadline is Jan. 24. Prizes will be awarded in ...

The City of Newark has just announced that it is accepting applications for its inaugural Poet Laureate for a 2-year term ...

Luther Hughes was 12 years old when poetry made its first impact on them. “I was in church, and the choir director read a poem about birds,” recalls Hughes, whose work has appeared in major ...

Now, she is back in the classroom, but she also has been helping community groups develop their own Black history programs outside of the public school system. “I wish, obviously, all kids were ...