Jennifer Jones details her years in the Rockettes as a pioneer in her new memoir, “Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette” (Amistad).

Donald Bogle’s “Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks” is considered the standard text on Black characters in American movies. But when the book was first published, in 1973, it was ...

Reddy published a children’s book around Valentine’s Day titled ‘My beautiful is Black.’ In the book, she celebrates the elegance of all things Black.

The essays in “Black and Female” recount the Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker’s life in the context of colonialism and its aftermaths. Tsitsi Dangarembga attends a press conference at the ...