One of the real tragic things about our Black legends is that more often than not, they don’t receive their flowers while they’re still here to smell and enjoy them. Thankfully, that doesn’t seem to ...

A month ago, I wrote a blog post that was, ummmm, a bit early. And, at first, wrong. The post concerned a screening of the documentary film “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.” Or, more specifically, it ...

As a little black girl who didn't always want to be black, Toni Morrison at once understood me and shamed me. Like many girls before and after me, I would place a towel on my head, pretending it was ...

Is the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. Wrote the libretto for the opera “Margaret Garner,” which premiered in 2005. 1955-1957 – Teaches at Texas Southern University. 1957-1964 – ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, in “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Magnolia Pictures ...