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Some argue the books under review — including "To Kill a Mockingbird" and two YA classics — instigated racist incidents; defenders believe they're antiracist.

The beloved writer and editor, who edited 35 years of Alice Walker’s journals, died earlier this year and left behind a remarkable new book about Black resilience

From art to acting to literature; explorations of people — and birds; and encouragement in times of trouble: It's in this gift guide.

“Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman,” edited by Alan Taylor. (Henry Holt, $32.) Clearly, Alan Rickman wrote these journals only for himself; the entries are terse, revealing little. (As

Best-selling author of Heavy: An American Memoir talks to Marc Lamont Hill about the factors that shape Black identity.

Today, the Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) and Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), co-organizers of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, announced the groundbreaking ...

Laymon was one of 19 individuals in the U.S. to be named a MacArthur Fellow.

Kiese Laymon, the internationally acclaimed writer, is giving back to his hometown of Jackson to bring initiative to Jackson State University.

Aerospace engineer Moriba Jah is one of 25 MacArthur Fellows this year for his work in aerospace engineering and mechanics developing tools to detect debris in space.

• This will be a stale visual by next Saturdays TWiP, so here it is now: • More seriously on the sports front, the current expanded major league baseball playoff format is providing a grand example of why the Burkean disposition against innovation (sorry Lucretia!) is sensible. The teams that got first-round byes because of their winning records (such as the Dodgers with 111 wins) have fallen ignominiously in the