It all started with an estate sale in 2014, explain Kiyanna Stewart and Jannah Handy in “Blk Mkt Vintage,” their first book (Black Dog and Leventhal; $40).

Our children’s-book critic offers her top picks, from the books that parents can read aloud to those young readers can tackle ...

Karl Simon visits Highgate Cemetery to show us the importance of contrast in black-and-white painting on a tablet.

Every night, as darkness envelops us, one quiet presence of the moon watches over us. It’s not just a natural satellite or a ...

The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

While there are many biographies about Gershwin that include chapters devoted to “Porgy and Bess,” the only book that exists about any of the members of the original cast is “Black Diva of the ...