Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first Black to win a Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

The Dr. Gwendolyn A. Newkirk Human Sciences building is one of dozens on the University of Nebraska’s east campus, but the story of the woman behind the name is still be celebrated today.

The first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the hardship and struggles of ordinary people.

Mike Stephen explores the impacts of the lack of homeschooling regulation in Illinois with Capitol News investigative reporters Beth Hundsdorfer and Molly Parker and then discusses the legacy of ...

A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection. By Sadie Stein Dear readers, My first experience with writing a fan letter didn’t go well. It was to the children’s writer and ...

MIDDLEBROOKS, Gwendolyn PhDDr. Gwendolyn Harris Middlebrooks, 84, civil rights activist and beloved educator, passed away on February 7, 2024. Born on November 1, 1939, in Chattanooga, Tennessee ...

Brooks and her husband, Troy, opened Brooks' Balanced Kitchen in March in the Wintrust Bank building at 731 N. Jackson St., which also houses Fit Pro Milwaukee, where the couple works as personal ...

Brooks and her husband, Troy, opened Brooks' Balanced Kitchen in March in the Wintrust Bank building at 731 N. Jackson St., which also houses Fit Pro Milwaukee, where the couple works as personal ...

92NY's Unterberg Poetry Center will present a Feb. 23, 7:30 pm reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’s first and only novel, Maud Martha.