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Jacqueline Woodson on the two books that helped her grow as a writer.
Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming, was recently named a recipient of the MacArthur fellowship for her inventive approach to children’s and young adult fiction; her stories bring...
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Defiant Style: A Story of African Women, in Photographs and Fashion
For African women across the continent, many of the most powerful but less remarked upon modern legacies were born of the sewing machine and the camera. This may seem like a bit of a wild claim: to...
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Amanda Gorman is on the cover of this week’s issue of TIME.
On Friday, February 5, TIME Magazine’s issue will be devoted to the contemporary renaissance and indelible power of Black art, including that of writers Amanda Gorman, Brit Bennett, Jasmine Guillory...
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The Inner Lives of Black Women: On Novels That Break the Chains of Trauma
Three years ago, I wrote an op-ed entitled Strong and Stressed Black Woman where I discussed the strong Black woman as a cultural icon who is resilient in the face of oppression while also silently...
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Making a Way Out of No Way: Celebrating the Power of Black Female...
My sister Kim and my best friend Debra were my first great loves. My memoir, Three Girls from Bronzeville, tells our story—three Black girls who start out in virtually the same place and take...
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WATCH: Myisha Cherry and Jacqueline Woodson Discuss the Liberatory...
In her new book, The Case for Rage, philosopher Myisha Cherry turns popular prejudices about anger on their head and argues for anger’s utility—and importance—in the fight against injustice. Anger has...
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The Meaningful Mundane: 6 Classic Books That Depict Black Girlhood
I was 12 years old the first time I read a book with a Black girl as the main character. It was seventh grade and we’d been reading the Dear America series—hardbound books with big themes and cute...
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Difficult Choices, Then and Now: A Reading List of Motherhood and Adoption
Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, the pro-life movement has been resurrecting an old-fashioned fable: that women who have abortions become traumatized, and that women who give up children for adoption end...
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Jacqueline Woodson on Navigating Book Bans and Staying Resilient in 2025
The author Jacqueline Woodson has been in censors’ cross-hairs for years, simply for writing queer characters into young adult books and documenting racial consciousness. But she’s unusually...
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