Toni Morrison Audio & Video

Angela Davis presents a critical edition of Frederick Douglass' memoir, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written by Himself.

Proud and beautiful, Sethe escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage--from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest work.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Bluest Eye (1970) is the first novel written by Toni Morrison.

Soprano Jessye Norman talks about her show "woman.life.song", which represents the different stages of a woman's life by portraying youth, mid-life, and old age.

Professor Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first black American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

From the author of "Paradise" and "Beloved", Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.

From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences.

Hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the Du Bois Institute, the event features some of the world's literary masters reading from their work.

Toni Morrison reads her spectacular novel, Paradise. In Paradise -- her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature -- Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance.