GREAT BARRINGTON — It’s been a decade-long passion project to elevate the historic contributions of a Black artist by preserving his writing cabin and, eventually, the land around it. Now, it's ...

A group of young men in Jacksonville, Florida, arranged to celebrate Lincoln’s birthday in 1900. My brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, and I decided to write a song to be sung at the exercises. I wrote the ...

A biography of James Weldon Johnson whose career included music, poetry, and public service. Includes a visualization of his poem The creation, with a reading by Raymond St. Jacques. Johnson, most ...

Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long, illus. by Xia Gordon. Atheneum, $18.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-6659-0278-6 A “man of words” envisions a silent demonstration in this moving account of the Silent Protest ...