'To Kill a Mockingbird' among 'most banned books'
POST SCRIPT'D - To Kill A Mockingbird, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, is among the top 10 most-banned books in history...
Pulitzer-winning columnist dead at 76
WASHINGTON (AP) - William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most widely read black journalists of his generation, died Tuesday. He was 76...
African-American woman named 19th Poet Laureate
EBONY. - The Library of Congress is to announce Thursday that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing atEmory University in Atlanta.
Fishburne narrates film on black Southern workers
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Laurence Fishburne is the narrator for an upcoming PBS documentary on black workers in the post-slavery South...
Sanaa Lathan to star in off-Broadway play
NEW YORK (AP) - Sanaa Lathan will star in the world premiere of Lynn Nottage's new play, "Meet Vera Stark"...
Oprah's film flop caused mac-and-cheese binge
NEW YORK (AP) - Winfrey tells Piers Morgan in an interview for his new CNN talk show that it was the only time she was ever depressed...
Rev. Al Sharpton plans to write memoir, build $20M headquarters in Harlem
The memoir's working title is "Mountain Highs and Valley Lows." It will be co-written by journalist Karen Hunter, who was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1999 Daily News Editorial Board...
In words, food, Maya Angelou reflects on holidays
(AP) - Angelou, whose second cookbook, "Great Food, All Day Long" (Random House, 2010), features holiday-worthy dishes such as crown roast and prime rib...
France honors 'Beloved' novelist Toni Morrison
PARIS (AP) - Morrison, an Ohio native who was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931, began writing in 1970...
