The Raw Story’s Arturo Garcia reports that Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man has been banned from school libraries and reading lists in Randolph County, North Carolina. After a parent decried the…
Happy birthday to Ralph Ellison, who would have turned 99 today. His fiction was revelatory—Invisible Man won the National Book Award in 1953—as were his essays on literature, music, and…
Between 1915 and 1970, six million African-Americans left the oppression of the Jim Crow South to find freedom in California and the northern states. Most traveled by rail, with those…