In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...

What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds couldn’t confront.

In the far western reaches of the UK is a small village home to around 2,000 people. Other than being surrounded by ...

In honor of February as Black History Month, the Henrico Citizen will spotlight (on each weekday during the month) an important current or former Black resident of Henrico whose life has helped shape ...

Massachusetts gets much of the historical glory. But Rhode Island became a center of resistance, providing brave soldiers, and offering a safe harbor.

The Tony Blair Story review – Fails to do justice to the complexity of Iraq - 3/5 Blair is a fascinating subject, but this ...

At a made-for-TV event in Westminster’s Church House — where Tony Blair addressed Labour MPs after his 1997 landslide — Farage promised an economic “super department” modelled on German rebuilding ...

New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments ...

An expert in picking locks, Jack Sheppard rose to fame in the 18th century for his spectacular escapes from London’s notorious prisons—but harsh English laws against theft eventually sent him to the ...

Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer Dallas police on Wednesday released edited body-camera footage of a shooting at a Red Bird-area apartment, showing the moments before two officers opened fire and ...

DARK LORD” Peter Mandelson has haunted British politics like a bad smell for 30 years. Each fresh scandal features a rich man bearing gifts. Everybody in Westminster knew Mandy ...

Dallas police released body camera video of a Monday shootout that injured an 18-year-old suspect, his grandmother, and an officer saved by his vest. Police said the suspect pointed a modified handgun ...