Rutgers has added a summer course on Contemporary Black Women Writers, less than two weeks after an uproar over the fact that the university was paying Snooki a higher speaking fee than Toni Morrison. (Morrison, of course, is on the syllabus.) » 4/13/11 3:45pm 4/13/11 3:45pm

The news that Snooki was paid $2,000 more than Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison to speak at Rutgers University last week was taken as another sign of Civilization's general decline. But high literature isn't going down without a fight. » 4/03/11 5:30pm 4/03/11 5:30pm

http://youtu.be/ee1C5FB3ceoAt least, in Jersey! » 4/01/11 3:21pm 4/01/11 3:21pm

Last night, I asked Angela Davis how she felt about the way her image has been used over the years. "Capitalism!" someone in the audience said dryly. Her answer was a little more nuanced. » 10/28/10 1:17pm 10/28/10 1:17pm

Indiana high school students had to quit reading Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon Wednesday, because administrators were offended by its "sex, violence, and profanity." Here's why this is bullshit. » 4/30/10 2:40pm 4/30/10 2:40pm

In response to the banning of her novel, Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison helped launch the Free Speech Leadership Council yesterday. Of literacy, she said: "[it is] the route out of any oppression, any limitation." [AP & Mediabistro] » 6/05/09 11:20am 6/05/09 11:20am

In a new video just up on the NY Times' "Paper Cuts" book blog, editor Sam Tanenhaus talks with Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison about her new book, A Mercy, and President-elect Barack Obama. Morrison compliments Obama's facility as a writer — "the beauty of his language," as she calls it — and ruminates on… » 11/28/08 3:30pm 11/28/08 3:30pm

Toni Morrison on her Election Day experience » 11/07/08 1:20pm 11/07/08 1:20pm

Esquire » 9/19/08 4:40pm 9/19/08 4:40pm

Former New York Times » 8/26/08 3:20pm 8/26/08 3:20pm

Toni Morrison would like to clear some stuff up about her now-famous anointment of Bill Clinton as the 'first black President'. She says: "I was deploring the way [he] was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already… » 5/08/08 12:45pm 5/08/08 12:45pm

Here is Barack Obama with renowned ruddy ladykiller Ted Kennedy. Ted is kind of a dick, but so was Suharto, and yet he had his good points too, as Barack learned when he was a little kid and Suharto seized power from the democratically-elected Sukarno in a US-assisted miltary coup and Barack's stepdad, an officer in… » 1/28/08 10:00am 1/28/08 10:00am