With less than 40 days to go before the 2012 presidential election, poet and activist Alice Walker reads her new poem, "Democratic Womanism," on Democracy Now. Full transcript here: ...

Her poem ‘High and Dry’ is about the river Gomti, a tributary of the Ganges. According to Hindu belief, the river is the ...

This March marks the one-hundredth anniversary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth, and between Savannah and Milledgeville, ...

Since 1976, every February has officially been designated as Black History Month. This February, stop by the library and give ...

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The musical is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker, who was born in Eatonton. The production is directed by Rashawd Ford, and is the first in the Young ...

The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans and the horror intrinsic to the American landscape. Dawoud Bey photographed in Richmond, Virginia, where his ongoing “Stony the Road” series ...

Y ou can’t mention queer history without mentioning the Black legends who paved and enriched a path for us authentically be ...

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