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

Gwendolyn Brooks has been a leading force in American ... Academy of American Poets’ Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement, Brooks was writer-in-residence at Chicago State University and ...

Several Chicago Public Schools students received scholarships Sunday evening. The awards were organized by a program that uplifts Black boys in elementary and high school, and they're making Chicago ...