Morrison’s “Beloved” and Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom” have been added back to the HUM syllabus this spring, as ...

50 years ago, The New York Times Book Review asked Toni Morrison to write an essay on a subject she knew intimately. Was it Black American History? Nope. Literature? Guess again! The struggle to ...

Susan Mayberry, Jane Peterson Professor of the Humanities in Alfred University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was recognized for her scholarly work on the late Nobel Prize-winning author, ...

We need you. And we’ll always need you. Someone once asked Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison how we survive whole in the world. She replied: “Sometimes, you don’t survive whole, you just survive ...

, let us strive to continue amplifying the voices of those who challenge the status quo and who envision a world where all people can thrive free from all forms of unlawful discrimination.

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...

Spoilers for “Beloved” (1987) ahead. “Beloved” (1987) by Toni Morrison is the most transformative novel I have ever read.