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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Family members, friends and clergy members dressed in white and red honored the life and faith of hip-hop icon DMX at his homegoing celebration Sunday in New York. Religious leaders ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

Jennifer Hudson brought the house to its feet during the public homegoing service for Reverend Jesse Jackson in Chicago. The legendary civil rights leader passed away at age 84 on Feb. 17. Since news ...

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 ...