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.

Gwendolyn had two brothers, Benjamin and Bernard, two sisters, Marie and Opal her remaining living sibling. Gwendolyn had three children, Michael, Donna and Stephanie with Harry Croy.

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks.

Leon County said goodbye to its longest serving judge, Augustus "Gus" Aikens Jr., honoring his legacy in a special way. As of Friday, the courthouse across the street from the Florida Capitol is ...

A bright-eyed, 10-year-old Augustus "Gus" Aikens Jr. decided he wanted to be a lawyer in front of a boxy television set in his grandmother's living room. The way Perry Mason, the title character ...

Uyen Griffis, the Aiken County Public School District’s 2023-24 Teacher of the Year, is a special education teacher at Hammond Hill Elementary School. The most gratifying part of her job is ...

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 ...

Daniel Dewayne Aikens asserted his innocence in three Monroe and Alexandria bombings before he was sentenced Tuesday, but then switched to referring to himself as "the defendant" when saying he ...

Daniel Aikens, representing himself after his conviction on eight federal charges connected to three Louisiana bombings, was denied a new trial on Monday.

The incomparable Gwendolyn Greenwood Aiken, Augusta church group escape Israel as war … ...

A film tells the true story of Willie Aikens, a World Series star for the Kansas City Royals whose life was derailed by drugs — and prison — before he pieced it back together.