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PEN America is committed to center anti-racist practices in all aspects of our organization’s internal and external work.

Humanities Nebraska in Lincoln is starting this semester's Prime Time Reading in several communities this school year.

In this PEN Ten interview, we spoke with Cleyvis Natera, author of Neruda on the Park (Ballantine Books 2022).

The book “Bad and Boujee” centers on Black women’s experience, but critics said it was written by a white professor and was flawed in its execution.

Megha Majumdar, whose novel “A Burning” was among the most talked about debuts of 2020, is among this year’s 10 recipients of a Whiting Award

NEW YORK (AP) — Megha Majumdar, whose novel “A Burning” was among the most talked about debuts of recent years, is among 10 recipients of a Whiting Award for emerging authors. Fiction writers Claire Boyles and Nana Nkweti, poets Ina Cariño and Anthony Cody and nonfiction writers Anaïs Duplan and Alexis Pauline Gumbs also will receive $50,000 each in prize money.

Peenemünde, formerly the development site of ballistic missiles and V1 and V2 rockets, was built in 1936 in order to help Hitler in his quest to control the world. Peenemünde: a dreaded place where thousands of people were enslaved and murdered under the orders of future chief of booster development at NASA Wernher von Braun, and military advisor General Walter Dornberger.

ICONS Series Mar 12, 2021   In honor of Womens History Month, five audio plays highlighting Black women from the Harlem Renaissance will release on Playbill. To celebrate Women’s History Month, The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) and Playbill are teaming up for ICONS: Harlem Renaissance in Motion, a series of audio plays produced by CTH and Venus Radio Theater. Launched on March 8, International Women’s Day, an audio play was released each day until March 12, highl...