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A #1 new release in African American poetry within 24 hours. Go inside The Onslaught of the -Isms—why I wrote it, what's inside, the poem born on a flight to California, and what readers are already saying.

We sold out weeks in advance. We walked into a full house, and what happened in that room—our poems, the conversations, the tears, the breakthroughs—is something we'll carry for a long time.

Zootopia is more than a kids' movie. It is one of the most honest, layered allegories about systemic racism in an animated film—and Zootopia 2 goes even further. This is a full social justice analysis of both films, now streaming on Disney+.

You can't overcome your fears unless you face them. So last year, I decided it was time to finally confront my performance anxiety around singing—something I developed after someone told me, when I was a little girl, that I couldn't sing well and advised me not to sing in public. Oddly enough, the same thing happened to my mother and one of my sisters. That made me fearful of doing something that once brought me so much joy as a child. Taking Singing Lessons as an Adult to B