COLUMBUS, Ohio — Lawmakers and literacy advocates in Ohio used the birthday of one of America's most frequently banned authors on Tuesday to defend difficult texts that they fear could be impacted by ...

Penn’s Center for Africana Studies hosted a discussion of "Beloved" by Toni Morrison on Sept. 30. The conversation — which was the latest installment in the Africana Classics Lecture Series — was led ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The setting was divine -- a duplex on the Upper East Side. The featured speaker, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The subjects: sex, violence and profanity. In other words, the stuff ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The life and works of Ohio native Toni Morrison will be celebrated during a yearlong event beginning Wednesday, which would have been the author’s 95th birthday. The Nobel ...

Chancellor Blumenthal presents author Toni Morrison with the 2014 UC Santa Cruz Foundation Medal at the Founders Celebration. Earlier, Morrison spoke to a full house at the Rio Theatre. (Photos by ...

Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison smiles after delivering a speech during the Rutgers University commencement ceremony in Piscataway, N.J in this May 15, 2011, file photo.