BlackReads Collection: Celebrating Black Stories

Here are over 800 haiku by Richard Wright, one of the early forceful and eloquent spokesmen for black Americans, author of the acclaimed Native Son...

"If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and ...

Three extraordinary and impassioned nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth century, together...

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six...

"Superb. . . . A great American writer speaks with his own voice about matters that still resonate at the center of our lives." —New York Times B...

12 Million Black Voices, first published in 1941, combines Wright's prose with startling photographs selected by Edwin Rosskam from the Security Fa...