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Toni Morrison’s groundbreaking novels about black history and identity helped to advance issues of civil rights and racial justice. The author was the keynote speaker at an event at Northeastern University in 2013, and afterward, she met with families who’d lost a relative to racial violence. Photo by Mary Knox Merrill/Northeastern University
Society & Culture

Toni Morrison’s influence extends beyond literature in her chronicling of black history and identity

by Molly Callahan

Toni Morrison ‘has done for the modern novel what Shakespeare did for theater’

by Molly Callahan