On Oct. 6, students, faculty and guests gathered at the Poetry Center in the Humanities Building for the screening of ...

Penn’s Center for Africana Studies hosted a discussion of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison on Sept. 30. The conversation — which was the latest installment in the Africana Classics Lecture Series — was led ...

Morrison won the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. As America nears its 250th birthday, the state of Ohio will commemorate the milestone with a yearlong initiative celebrating literary icon Toni ...

As the United States of America turns 250 years old, Ohio will celebrate its "Beloved" author and Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison. Named after the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author's most renowned ...

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 – ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Humanities has announced a yearlong celebration to honor one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Ohio native Toni Morrison. The initiative, titled “Beloved: Ohio ...

I’m sharing a classic moment from Toni Morrison in 1998, when she masterfully confronted a journalist’s racist question with poise and clarity. This clip reminds me just how important it is 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 ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In the 1970s, before Morrison was world-famous for her fiction, she worked at Random ...

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Toni Morrison was born Chloe Ardelia Wofford on February 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, a small city about 30 miles west of Cleveland. She was the second oldest of four children. Her father, George ...