Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are speaking at the event, which also features music from Chicago native ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson was laid to rest on Saturday at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, following a week of services including lying in repose at Rainbow PUSH headquarters, lying in state at the South ...

Carlton Daniel Jr., creator and writer of the short film Homegoing, featured at the 2021 American Black Film Festival, sat down with theGrio and opened up about his film, Black queer storytelling at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Family, friends and fans of Wanda Smith will pay their respects at her homegoing service on Monday in Cobb County. The beloved ...

Yaa Gyasi’s highly anticipated debut novel “Homegoing’’ begins with a birth and a fire. As Cobbe Otcher’s daughter Effia enters the world on Africa’s Gold Coast in the middle of the 18th century, a ...

The story of one of the summer’s most-anticipated novels begins with a trip to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle—a symbol in stone of slavery and the walls built to ignore it. Yaa Gyasi was a college ...

Towards the end of Yaa Gyasi’s tremendous family saga “Homegoing,” a Ghanaian teacher with revolutionary aspirations lectures his students on a problem of history: We need to rely on others’ words to ...

If you’ve been paying any attention to pop culture, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in slavery narratives, particularly in Hollywood. The most recent is the History channel’s remake of “Roots,” the ...