OPINION - Lost in the political obscurity of Chris Christie and 'Traffic-Gate' was the passing of one of our great
(AP) - Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made
theGRIO REPORT - Alexis Wilkinson was elected as The Harvard Lampoon's first African-American and the first female president.
theGRIO REPORT - Best known for writing and producing 'The Wire' and 'Treme', David Simon took to his personal webpage
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK - At 85 years old, Dr. Angelou confessed to me that she’d tried to write this book years
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years old when she first read Chinua Achebe's
NEW YORK (AP) - Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern