Trauma is inescapable in the first trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming film chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she sits in generation-spanning grief to write ...

NEW YORK (AP) — If not for the coronavirus, Oprah Winfrey says, she would be out in the streets and marching with the Black Lives Matter protesters. She has instead found other ways to add her voice.

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year’s finalists for National Book Critics Circle ...

Caste is an important book for this time, for any time. But it may wind up being to the literary world as oatmeal is to the dietary world — important but not widely consumed. In Caste Wilkerson builds ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson will speak in Burlington, Vermont as part of a Diversity Speaker Series. Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and is known for her books ...

Laura Zornosa is a reporter at TIME. Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and her husband Brett Kelly Hamilton (Jon Bernthal) in 'Origin.' Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and her husband ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York ...

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Author Isabel Wilkerson discusses racism in the U.S. According to award-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, the death of Tyre Nichols is just the latest tragedy to shine a light on America's ...