Toni Morrison will need to make some more room in her awards cabinet. The 81-year-old writer and educator has already garnered a Nobel Prize, a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous literary awards, and now she has been named as one of the recipients of this year’s Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking of her talents, a statement [...]

The Pulitzer Prize committee at Columbia University announced its winners Monday afternoon. Among those selected were three black writers: film critic Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe, Tracy K. Smith for her book Life on Mars and the late Manning Marable for his final work, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Morris won the best [...]

Best-selling author Terry McMillian and “CSI: NY” star Hill Harper are set to join activist Randall Robinson during this year’s Anguilla Literary Festival taking place May 24 through May 28. The festive five day event, which will be hosted at the island’s Paradise Cove Resort, will celebrate various authors from the world of literature and [...]

Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade is adding a new accomplishment to his resume: author. In his forthcoming book, “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball,” Wade will write about being a dad to his two young sons as well as his own transformation as a child of a single parent to being [...]