One of the real tragic things about our Black legends is that more often than not, they don’t receive their flowers while they’re still here to smell and enjoy them. Thankfully, that doesn’t seem to ...

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A month ago, I wrote a blog post that was, ummmm, a bit early. And, at first, wrong. The post concerned a screening of the documentary film “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.” Or, more specifically, it ...

As the lights dimmed in the Wallace Theater on the opening evening of “Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive,” a hush fell over the audience as a warmly magisterial voice, ...

“Stamp Paid” is the nickname of a minor yet meaningful character in Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, "Beloved." Born Joshua, he renamed himself after he concluded that only benevolence could pay his moral ...

What was it like to work with Toni Morrison as an editor? One NPR editor looked into it.