Reversing the loss of White privilege motivated the groundswell of support for Trump. Morrison says it's White fear--not anger--that led to his victory.
During a wide-ranging and candid discussion with the Daily Telegraph about the state of the nation’s race relations, author Toni Morrison says America’s issues will not be resolved until justice is meted out equally in the criminal justice system, according to the Raw Story. Further, the Nobel Prize-winning author says unarmed Blacks are not the ones […]
At 84 years old, literary legend Toni Morrison has no intention of putting down her pen just yet. The New York Times Magazine put the…
Chipotle is using something other than overstuffed burritos and chips and gauc to get our attention. They are now using their words. The Mexican-food-in-a-flash restaurant…
Yesterday (May 29) President Obama presented author Toni Morrison and several other deserving recipients with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, during a ceremony at the White House.
(CNN) — The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State and a Polish officer who provided some of the first accounts of the Holocaust are among 13 people who will be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. The medal is the nation’s highest civilian honor, awarded to those who make […]
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in 1931 in Lorain (Ohio), the second of four children in a black working-class family, Toni displayed an early interest in literature. She studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989, a chair at Princeton University. She […]
From Posterous: In response to Peter Sellar’s 2009 production of Othello, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison and singer/song-writer Rokia Traore collaborate to create an intimate and profound conversation between Desdomona and her African nurse, Babary, from beyond the grave. You may want to brush up on your Othello before watching this performance. The piece is, […]