The Brownies’ Book was one of the first periodicals created primarily for Black youth, or “children of the sun,” as the magazine referred to them. It was published monthly between January 1920 and December 1921, for a total of twenty-four issues, and is freely available online. Each issue opened with...

Langston Hughes. Underwood Archives/Contributor (Getty Images). Looking back to an incident during my middle-school years, I realize I’ve had the sensibilities of a scholar for a very long time. A student submitted a Langston Hughes poem to the school literary magazine as his own; the faculty sponsor did not know...