What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds ...

In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American ...

Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive ...

Serpell leaves no stone unturned in her deep and enriching portrait of the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre ...

Ohio will celebrate Toni Morrison's life and works with a year-long event, "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As Ohio prepares for a yearlong celebration of Toni Morrison, a leading literary scholar is coming to Cleveland with a major new book about the Nobel Prize-winning author. Harvard ...

Youngstown State University will mix some jazz with some “Jazz” to celebrate Ohio-born author Toni Morrison. A community ...

The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...

Ohio is launching a yearlong initiative, "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," to honor the Nobel laureate's legacy, starting Feb. 18.

She’s been called “America’s Shakespeare” and one of Ohio’s “Black queens.” Wednesday kicks off a yearlong celebration of one ...

Explore the legacies of Toni Morrison and Nina Simone, examining race, memory, and the complexities of Black womanhood in America.