RICHMOND, Va. — For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom's strict rule. "Mom always told me, 'Don't you ever bring a white man home,' " recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by ...

A newly restored 1979 documentary examines how Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub-infused poetry documented the challenges faced by Britain’s Black Caribbean population. By Patricia Meschino See more of our ...

A clever device invented to end a war. Destruction of the sacred and violence against the innocent. Mayhem. Pillage. Atrocity ...

Philadelphia's spoken-word community is mourning one of its fiercest voices. Lamar Manson, the Philadelphia-born poet known ...

Lamar Manson, better known by his stage name Black Ice, is widely recognized as the first poet signed to Def Jam Records and as a star of the Def Poetry Jam TV and Broadway shows. He was 54.

He bridged hip-hop and poetry, became Def Jam's first signed poet, and mentored a new generation. Inside Black Ice's legacy ...

He had to wait until he was 55 to find success. A decade later, Arthur Jafa has become an artist whose work is shown around ...

Or what’s the Odyssey except a woman Wooed by the suitors while her man’s away? In fact, there are over a hundred suitors who ...

This essay is one in a collection of 13 perspectives on Dallas culture. Featured in D Magazine‘s July issue, we gave each ...

Thanks to a career-defining performance by Matt Damon, Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is one of his best movies. Review.

As a series of star-studded events celebrates Ginsberg’s centennial, the keeper of his estate weighs the genius poetry – and provocative views – of the iconic writer ...

Two-tier justice row as police arrest white man ‘assaulted by black men’ Robert Jenrick demands West Midlands force release full footage of incident after man charged with hitting an officer Give full ...