For many years, Ralph Ellison and his wife Fanny summered in the woods of Plainfield, Mass.
Tag: National Book Award
Landing in the Berkshires: Jerry Pinkney
Much has been written about Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington, but there’s little on his legendary speech and how King came to write it.
BOOK REVIEWS: Two writers on growing up black
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book . . . appeared at just the right moment, when the media was saturated with cases of police acting unprofessionally, destructively and sometimes murderously in their dealings with young black men.