Toni Morrison

This combination of images shows promotional art for "Reservation Dogs," left, "Mixtape" and "The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart." (Hulu/Paramount+/Prime Video via AP)

What to stream this week: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ Quavo, ‘Reservation Dogs’ and ‘Mixtape’

This week’s new entertainment releases include fresh tracks from Quavo, the arrival on Disney+ of James Gunn’s cornball finale “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and hip-hop marks its 50th anniversary with the documentary “Mixtape.”

This image released by the USPS shows a forever stamp featuring Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. (USPS via AP)

Toni Morrison honored with new stamp, unveiled at Princeton

This combination of photos shows "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels at The Museum Gala in New York on Dec. 1, 2022, left, and Netflix co-CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos at a special screening of the Netflix documentary film "The Redeem Team," in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. PEN, the literary and free expression organization, is giving Michaels its PEN/Audible Literary Service Award. Sarandos will receive the Business Visionary Award. (AP Photo)

Lorne Michaels of ‘SNL’ to be honored at PEN America gala

FILE - American Nobel laureate and "Beloved" author Toni Morrison smiles during a news conference at the Louvre Museum in Paris, Nov. 8, 2006. A Feb. 22 to June 4, 2023 Morrison tribute at Princeton University, where she taught for 17 years, will range from music created and performed by Grammy winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant to a spring lecture series to a three-day symposium featuring author Edwidge Danticat, among others. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Princeton University plans Toni Morrison tribute in 2023

This image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Robert Caro, left, and Robert Gottlieb in a scene from the documentary "Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb." (Claudia Raschke/Wild Surmise Productions, LLC/Sony Pictures Classics via AP)

Robert Caro, Gottlieb and the mystic chords of memory

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FILE - Philadelphia poet laureate Sonia Sanchez gestures as she makes remarks during a news conference Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011, in Philadelphia. The poet, activist and educator is this year's winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement honor started in 1960 and previously given to Robert Frost, Toni Morrison and Stephen Sondheim among others. “I had tears in my eyes as I learned about this award,” Sanchez, said in a statement released Sunday, March 6, 2022, by MacDowell, an artist residency founded in 1907. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Poet Sonia Sanchez to receive Edward MacDowell Medal

Missouri school district rescinds decision on banned book

2 students sue Missouri school district over banned books

This combination photo shows "Recitatif" by Toni Morrison, left, and an image of Morrison in New York on Feb. 27, 2013. (Alfred A. Knopf via AP, left, and AP Photo)

Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book

Virginia Beach schools evaluating concerns over 6 books

ACLU of Utah investigating after books removed from schools

This combination of photos shows cover art for "A Tropic of Orange," from left, "I Hotel," and "Brazil-Maru," by author Karen Tei Yamashita. The National Book Foundation announced Friday that Yamashita has been awarded its medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The 70-year-old Yamashita is an author and playwright who in such fiction (and meta-fiction) as “I Hotel” and “Tropic of Orange” blends multiple perspectives and narrative styles. (Coffee House Press via AP)

Karen Tei Yamashita to receive honorary National Book Award

FILE - In this July 6, 2021, file photo with the Founders Library in the background, people walk along the Howard University campus in Washington. With the surprise twin hiring of two of the country's most prominent writers on race, Howard University is positioning itself as one of the primary centers of Black academic thought just as America struggles through a painful crossroads over historic racial injustice. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

With Harris and Hannah-Jones, Howard University is on a roll

Author Joy Williams honored by Library of Congress

Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among most objected to in 2020

Women’s Hall of Fame honors Aretha Franklin, Morrison, Lacks

FILE - Oprah Winfrey arrives for the presentation of Stella McCartney's ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 fashion collection in Paris on March 4, 2019. Winfrey is setting aside her usual book club recommendations and instead citing seven personal favorites ranging from James Baldwin’s landmark essays in “The Fire Next Time” to Mary Oliver’s poetry collection “Devotions.” She is calling her choices “The Books That See Me Through,” works she values for “their ability to comfort, inspire, and enlighten” her. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

`The books that help her through': Winfrey suggests seven

FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2016 file photo, author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie appears at a celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day at Seattle's City Hall. Alexie is included in a list of authors who wrote books that were among the 100 most subjected to censorship efforts over the past decade, as compiled by the American Library Association. Alexie's prize-winning “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” came in at No. 1. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Alexie, Pilkey books among most ‘challenged’ of past decade

Stanley Crouch, contentious man of letters, dead at 74

FILE - Author Walter Mosley attends the 2018 National Art Awards in New York on Oct. 22, 2018. Mosley, who is among the most acclaimed crime novelists of his time, is receiving an honorary National Book Award. He will formally receive the medal during a Nov. 18 ceremony that will be held online because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Walter Mosley to receive honorary National Book Award

FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, novelist Colson Whitehead speaks to fans after discussing his Pulitzer prize-winning book "The Underground Railroad" at the English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Already this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library Congress. On Monday, July 13, the library announced that he had won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead

Publishers sue Internet Archive over scanning of books

Publishers sue Internet Archive over scanning of books

Rosanne Cash wins prestigious MacDowell arts medal

REMOVES REFERENCE TO PLACE OF DEATH - In this undated photo provided by Random House Sonny Mehta poses for a portrait. Mehta, the urbane and astute head of Alfred A. Knopf who guided one of the book world's most esteemed imprints to new heights through a blend of prize-winning literature by Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy among others and blockbusters such as "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," died Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in Manhattan, at age 77. (Michael Lionstar/Random House via AP)

Sonny Mehta, visionary head of Alfred A. Knopf, dies at 77

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Edmund White to receive honorary National Book Award

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1991 file photo, author Paule Marshall poses during an interview, in New York. The acclaimed fiction writer has died at 90. Marshall’s son, Evan K. Marshall, told The Associated Press that she died Monday, Aug. 12, 2019 in Richmond, Va. Marshall was an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother's kitchen conversations for such fiction as "Brown Girl, Brownstones," "Daughters" and "Praisesong for the Widow.” (AP Photo, File)

Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, dead at 90

The marquee of the Apollo Theater honors Toni Morrison, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 in New York. Nobel laureate Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Morrison appreciated for giving black women a voice

FILE - This March 4, 2019 file photo shows Oprah Winfrey at the presentation of Stella McCartney's ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2019-2020 fashion collection in Paris. Winfrey praised her late friend and idol, Toni Morrison, hailing the best-selling author’s “confidence and self-assuredness and nobility.” Winfrey and Morrison knew each other for more than 20 years, dating back to when Winfrey was so determined to learn the author’s unlisted phone number that she called the local fire department. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Oprah Winfrey praises her late friend and idol Toni Morrison

The marquee of the Apollo Theater honors Toni Morrison, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019 in New York. Nobel laureate Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in "Beloved," ''Song of Solomon" and other works transformed American letters by dramatizing the pursuit of freedom within the boundaries of race, has died at age 88. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Toni Morrison was a ‘literary mother’ to countless writers

En esta foto del 5 de abril de 1994, Toni Morrison en la Iglesia Catedral de San Juan el Divino en Nueva York. La autora laureada con el Nobel de literatura falleció el lunes 5 de agosto del 2019 en el Centro Médico Montefiore en Nueva York, informó la editorial Alfred A. Knopf. Tenía 88 años. (AP Foto/Kathy Willens, Archivo)

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

FILE - In this April 5, 1994 file photo, Toni Morrison as she holds an orchid at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. The Nobel Prize-winning author has died. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf says Morrison died Monday, Aug. 5, 2019 at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. She was 88. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Barack Obama, Beyonce, others react to Toni Morrison’s death