The notion that "black books" don't sell is pervasive at every level of publishing. Yet I have found few examples of books with a person of colour on the cover that have had the full weight of a ...

The featured books were by white authors, starring characters who have canonically been represented and interpreted as white. One cover, for example, features a black Dorothy with red sneakers for ...

THE LONG DREAM (384 pp.)—Richard Wright—Doubleday ($3.95).From his first (1938) book of long short stories to his latest novel, Richard Wright has given proof that anger can sometimes ...

Ann Petry’s “The Street” was the first novel by a black woman to sell more than a million copies. But over the years, not all of its covers conveyed the complex themes of race and class.

The book “Bad and Boujee” centers on Black women’s experience, but critics said it was written by a white professor and was flawed in its execution. By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A ...

She was the first Black woman to be credentialed to join the White House press corps, and she had even arrived an hour early to cover her first news conference with President Harry S. Truman.

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.