BelovedSethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement.

Greet the world

A high-born Nigerian goddess

questioning the society around her

It's a message that is both urgent and timeless--and offers a rich and rewarding reading experience for every child

Searching for answers

It's all good--until old wounds reopen

but we can't dismiss all anger

MSNBC legal commentator Elie Mystal thinks that Republicans are wrong about the law almost all of the time

Blade travels to the Ghanaian village of Konko

To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom--not merely reform--teachers

and the joy of Blackness

And Quanneisha B