Years ago, when I published an essay referring to James Baldwin—born a century ago this year—as “the greatest of all African-American writers,” a friend called me on the claim. Was Baldwin really ...

A “grim-faced” Alec Baldwin was seen walking through New York City on Wednesday, a few hours after skipping the world premiere of his controversial film “Rust” in Poland, the Daily ...

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was ...

Everett's "James," a daring reworking of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," won the National Book Award for fiction.

A group wants Duke University to pay Durham $50 million annually. The Duke Respect Durham campaign builds on long-simmering tensions.

Neil Postman’s jeremiad against TV seems rather quaint today—and not just because he was shouting into the wind and knew it.

Their reactions ranged from “let’s go!” to let down. Each student is charting a path they hope will help them achieve their own goals and reshape the American political landscape including, in the ...

In what is one of the most consequential elections in modern U.S. history, many high schoolers had to leave it to adults to choose the next president. Three Los Angeles high school students — ...

Upon graduation, he worked for a decade in the Nigerian media: Gongola State Television, The Guardian, TheNEWS, TEMPO, TNT, ...

On 14 June this year Akin Adesokan was promoted from associate professor to full professor of comparative literature.

With the third anniversary of the school shooting approaching, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she still hasn’t received the cooperation from local officials necessary to begin an outside ...