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Born in Brooklyn in 1975, Talib Kweli first gained recognition in the underground hip-hop scene as one-half of the rap…

Best known for his 25-year run as anchor for ABC’s Nightline, British-born broadcast legend Ted Koppel is regarded as one…

Visionary YA author and activist Angie Thomas became an overnight sensation on the 2017 publication of her debut novel, The…

Like quite a few IT entrepreneurs, Jack Dorsey found his passion for tech as a teen, and dropped out of…

Over his decade of work as a journalist, senior editor and national correspondent for The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates gained a…

Once a month, groups of men gather across the U.S. to meet for The Marathon Book Club, a movement founded…

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the musician best known as the drummer and co-frontman of Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group The Roots, is very much…

At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Gabrielle Union‘s 2017 essay collection We’re Going To Need More Wine is a moving exploration of…

“I’ve always felt unclaimed. This is a story of the ways I created a territory, something more than just an…