Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

An alleged threat in April directed toward Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School on the social media platform Snapchat, was deemed ...

T he contributions of Black female authors to the world of literature are immeasurable. For centuries, they have crafted ...

Native American poet Mark Turcotte was introduced on Tuesday by Governor JB Pritzker as our state’s latest official poet.

Thousands of workers marched through Chicago to support the eight-hour workday, but a failed general strike proved the employers right. Three days before the Haymarket Affair — in which a bomb was ...

Several Chicago Public Schools students received scholarships Sunday evening. The awards were organized by a program that ...

The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is named after the first African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Poet Laureate of Illinois, Gwendolyn Brooks. Founded in 1970, the Gwendolyn Brooks ...

This week in history: the first edition of Roget's Thesaurus is published, and a tweak to the harpsichord becomes the world's first piano.

On the site of the original Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center is the recently dedicated Gwendolyn Brooks Memorial Park. As of June 2021, $52, 875.73 has been raised for the Gwendolyn Brooks Memorial ...

Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American letters for decades. Her poetry, writes Adrienne Rich, “holds up a mirror to the American experience entire, its dreams, self-delusions and ...