Overview: Family, clergy and congregants recounted his resilience during fight with ALS At Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday, May 2, Pastor Daphne Bruce framed celebration of life ...

“I like creating film that really makes the audience think,” said Daniel. In the project, Daniel incorporates close and lingering shots, which he did in order to “reflect on the human experience.” ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson was laid to rest on Saturday at Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago, following a week of services including lying in repose at Rainbow PUSH headquarters, lying in state at the South ...

Towards the end of Yaa Gyasi’s tremendous family saga “Homegoing,” a Ghanaian teacher with revolutionary aspirations lectures his students on a problem of history: We need to rely on others’ words to ...

“Homegoing,” the wildly ambitious debut novel by a 26-year-old writer named Yaa Gyasi, tackles some 250 years of history on two continents. It’s a novel that seems to have been inspired by such ...

Yaa Gyasi’s highly anticipated debut novel “Homegoing’’ begins with a birth and a fire. As Cobbe Otcher’s daughter Effia enters the world on Africa’s Gold Coast in the middle of the 18th century, a ...

If you’ve been paying any attention to pop culture, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in slavery narratives, particularly in Hollywood. The most recent is the History channel’s remake of “Roots,” the ...

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. Yaa Gyasi, a writer with a rich talent for visceral story-telling, is part of the wake-up crew. Ancestral curses ...

After two half sisters are separated, we follow their family lines over the course of two centuries through a series of short stories. Some of their descendants are in Africa, some are in America; ...

Carlton Daniel Jr., creator and writer of the short film Homegoing, featured at the 2021 American Black Film Festival, sat down with theGrio and opened up about his film, Black queer storytelling at ...