The above poem is a prayer of sorts, dated Aug. 14, 2020, and spoken by Joyelle McSweeney—the author and narrator of Death ...

Detective Allan Reddins was killed in the line of duty on Nov. 29. He joined the Oak Park Police Department in 2019 after ...

Kwame Alexander, Marita Golden and other authors mourn the death of revered poet and civil rights champion Nikki Giovanni.

Nikki Giovanni, a renowned Knoxville-born writer, educator and activist, has died at the age of 81, according to multiple ...

She said she could only read the words to “Beside Me Always” at her son’s funeral 32 years ago. She wrote the song about her ...

The South Korean writer delivered her Nobel Prize lecture in her own language at a ceremony in Stockholm on 7 December, 2024.

The Royal Mint, which has struck the coins of monarchs from Alfred the Great in the ninth century through to King Charles III ...

Four years later, Batya, a woman in my building — the same age my mother was when she died — was in hospice at home. Each day ...