By educating the next generation, Pinkney wants to empower these young voices to craft, shape and share stories to inspire.

In my mind as I read, in a time some eons ago or in the future that will never be, I’m sitting at a table as Toni Morrison scuttles around her kitchen, ginger rays of early sunset dancing across ...

An Ohio-born author had one of her books on the American Library Association's Top Challenged Books list for 2024.

"To me this is a praise poem. It is my love letter, an invitation and a thank you to Toni Morrison," she says. "It was important for me to let young people in on the fact that Toni Morrison ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...

Ohio established Toni Morrison Day — named for the late Nobel ... west of Cleveland. Miller said that young writers of varied ages, genders and backgrounds just attended an event at the Lorain ...