Janelle Harris Dixon's posts

For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie fans, it’s been a long seven years since Americanah, her last novel, and winner of the…

There are books that make you feel great admiration for a woman’s work, books that spark the impetus to tackle an…

Every other month, I go to the Books for International Goodwill sale in Annapolis, Md. It starts at 8 am and I’m an…

If you’ve never been Black surrounded by a constant overwhelm of White—at school, your place of work, in your…

Black talent got a prestigious shout-out when the 2020 finalists for the National Book Awards were announced on…

Pages worth of protest may be sitting right on your bookshelves. This October kicked off during Banned Books Week,…

Last Tuesday, there were several ways you could have spent your 7 pm hour in the Eastern Standard Time…

In 2001, when the Library of Congress’ inaugural National Book Festival kicked off in Washington, D.C., some 50…

Cole Brown has lived his entire 24 years of life at the intersection of privilege and Blackness. The son of a…

OK, so let’s articulate the obvious: There will be no tents or stages at the Schomburg Literary Festival this year.…

If we’ve learned anything over these past few months, it’s that leadership matters.

In the predawn quiet before the world reanimated itself, my phone lit up, announcing an incoming call from a friend…

Weeks ago, as social media alerts from Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department ignited an outcry about the…

There’s a young woman who lives on the first floor of my apartment building. She’s cute, probably in her mid-20s,…

So many presidents tried it.

It started as a collective expression of pride. A group of young women at the School for Creative Studies in Durham,…

She was born in Notasulga, Ala., but she didn’t like the way her story started, so she rewrote it and claimed…

Dear Former Employer,

How long has it been since you wrote a letter? Not an inbox message, not an email, not a mega-marathon text that…

In A Burst of Light, her aptly titled collection of essays, Audre Lorde famously wrote, “Caring for myself is not…