Anita Hill shares her vision of economic inequality

Goldie Taylor

OPINION - Today's public discourse is a sad stage of affairs, inhabited by a bevy of bad actors who have never known a day without bread -- in their mouths or their pockets...

T.I. makes his debut as author: 'Power and Beauty'

Demetria Irwin

theGRIO REPORT - The self-proclaimed King of the South began signing books about 20 minutes after the event was scheduled to start at Harlem bookstore Hue-Man...

A documentary charts Harry Belafonte's busy life

theGrio

NEW YORK (AP) - At 84, Harry Belafonte doesn't sing publicly anymore. But today his music is no less rich or compelling than before, even delivered in the form of the spoken words he voices lyrically and from his heart...

New e-book club includes works by Alice Walker

theGrio

NEW YORK (AP) - A digital publisher of Pat Conroy, Alice Walker and other writers has formed an online book club with a website that has for years served as a hub for reading groups...

Two new Easy Rawlins novels coming

theGrio

NEW YORK (AP) - Walter Mosley has a three-book deal with Doubleday, including two more novels featuring the Los Angeles detective played by Denzel Washington in the film version of 'Devil in a Blue Dress.'...

Herman Cain memoir hits top 10 on Amazon.com

theGrio

NEW YORK (AP) - Herman Cain is surging in the polls and on the best-seller charts...

Walter Payton book alleges drug abuse, adultery

theGrio

WASHINGTON POST - Excerpts in Sports Illustrated relate tales of Payton's extramarital affairs, including a scene in Canton, Ohio, when Payton took both his wife and girlfriend to his Hall of Fame induction...

Author: Alabama prison wrong on book ban

Chika Oduah

theGRIO REPORT- An inmate in a prison near Montgomery, Ala., has filed a lawsuit in a federal court claiming that his civil rights were violated when prison officials ordered him to return a book...