"Jesmyn Ward's 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' is a ghost story about the real struggles of living" PBS NewsHour 10/27/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward writes the stories of… Read More
"Jesmyn Ward answers your questions about ‘Sing, Unburied, Sing’" PBS NewsHour 1/31/2018ExcerptSUMMARY: Award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reade… Read More
Jojo is a 13-year-old boy whose black mother, Leonie, is a druggie and whose white father, Michael, is in prison. He lives with his grandparents in coastal Mississippi, along with his… Read More
While the title of the latest issue of American Literary History, “What is Twenty-First-Century African American Literature?” is meant as a provocation to understand and define t… Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Jesmyn Ward's "Sing, Unburied, Sing," winner of the National Book Award for fiction, is now a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Other finalists announced Mo… Read More
The nominees for the 49th NAACP Image Awards were announced today in Los Angeles. The Two-Hour Live TV special will air on TV One on Monday, January 15, 2018, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr… Read More
Colour of Music Festival OrchestraThe Colour of Music Festival announces the fifth annual Colour of Music Festival October 18-22, 2017 offering a musical kaleidoscope showcasing the impact a… Read More