"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing ...

Critic Margo Jefferson says Michael Jackson wrote perfectly constructed pop songs, reviving Motown and pushing black performers back into the main... Michael Jackson: Child Singer To King Of Pop Margo ...

Who made you the person you are - parents, friends? Sure. But what about people you've never met - musicians, writers, characters in TV and movies? Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural ...

"This book presents over 100 unique handmade African American dolls made between 1850 and 1930 from the collection of Deborah Neff, a Connecticut-based collector and champion of vernacular art. It is ...

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson, Pantheon, 248 pages, $25. In American literature, you can find the great writers, as often as not, born on the fault lines of social class. That’s where seismic ...

Michael Jackson is one of the most influential cultural figures to come out of the 20th century and his legacy continues into the 21st century. His significance is widely acknowledged when it comes to ...