There is a feeling among writers of color in America that the publishing industry is not giving them a fair shake. Many of them say that they are being marginalised […]

Children’s author and women’s health advocate, Habiba Cooper Diallo is a 2014 American Express Ashoka Changemaker Emerging Innovator and one of Canada’s Top 20 Under-20 for innovation, leadership and achievement. […]

She’s an award-winning, bestselling author with an estimated 11 million copies of her books sold around the world, in 22 languages. Her novels ‘Waiting To Exhale,’ ‘How Stella Got Her […]

Deep in the interior of west-central Jamaica, there is an approximately 500 square-mile expanse of rainforest known as the Cockpit Country. It is part of Jamaica’s great White Limestone plateau. This […]

The Kurt Schork Memorial Fund (KSMF) is now accepting submissions for its 2016 awards in international journalism – the only awards of their type for print journalists. KSMF invites freelance […]

‘Momma said the first day I got up off the floor to walk I shook my ass like I was a pro. I haven’t stopped shaking my ass since. I was […]

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) writers in the U.K. are being marginalised and pigeonholed by the British publishing establishment, which is overwhelmingly white. This was one of the disturbing […]

Anthony Frampton’s debut novel, Bare Attitude, is a gripping romantic thriller that tells a captivating story of intraregional migration in the Caribbean through the shifting tensions of a slinky Haitian’s […]

Martin Munro, Winthrop-King Professor of French at Florida State University, is editor of Edwidge Danticat: A Reader (Virginia) and author of Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas. His […]

Jamaican author Marlon James has won the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s. Michael Wood, chair of the judges, […]