American Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison smiles during a news conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Nov. 8, 2006. (Michel Euler/AP) Author Andrea Davis Pinkney is out with a new ...

Books We Love is NPR's list of best reads. One of this year's picks is called "Toni At Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship" by Dana A. Williams. It's a biography of Toni Morrison's time ...

Activist and scholar Angela Davis has released a new edition of her 1974 autobiography, first published and edited by Toni Morrison nearly 50 years ago. The book details Davis’s remarkable early life, ...

Toni Morrison had to figure out a way to talk to Muhammad Ali. It was the mid-’70s and at the time, she was his editor, tasked with bringing his autobiography to the world. But Ali wouldn’t speak to ...

Angela Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA and of the Black Panthers, was tried in 1971 for supplying weapons for a courtroom takeover that ended in a bloodbath. After beating the rap, she won ...

MORRISON, TONI (18th Feb. 1931 - 5th Aug. 2019) was a renowned and award-winning American author and professor. Morrison wrote extensively about the plight of African Americans and Black people, ...

Steve Adubato and co-host Jacqui Tricarico recognize the life and career of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison & her power to uplift humanity & marginalized voices. Joined by: Farah Jasmine ...