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 ...

George E. Johnson built Afro Sheen, backed Soul Train, and launched the first Black-owned company on the American Stock ...

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks, center, walks unrecognized by people in Chicago in 1961. Brooks lived on the South Side for most of her life. (Chicago Tribune archive) Gwendolyn Brooks writes at a table ...

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

A conversation with the anonymous creator of the popular account about their new collection of poems.

New York’s Glimmerglass Festival will stage the opera, which is based on Cisneros' 1984 novel and inspired by her childhood ...

Poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks put the same thought in these terms: “we jazz June/we die soon,” she wrote in her seminal poem “We Real Cool.” In 2010, fine artist Titus Kaphar completed the painting ...

Black female authors have consistently broken barriers and enriched the literary landscape with their powerful storytelling, ...

Following the culturally rich Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Chicago fostered its own vibrant gumbo of writers, painters, ...