On the edge of a humble, nameless town, a young boy's father catches him in women's lingerie. The man rages, beats his son and burns his clothes. All the while, a Nina Simone record spins. Crafted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Boys grow up as free-wandering as neighborhood dogs. Adults live at the edge of lives grim as spit in gin. Dreams skate past as ...

"There was a boy named Emile / who fell in love with a field," poet Kevin Young writes. "It was wide and blue — and if you could have seen it / so would've you." Emile and the Field is the story of a ...

If you've ever lost faith in this generation or the next one, this 14-year-old boy may give you just enough hope to get through the day. Derek Nichols decided to post a poem written by his younger ...

WASHINGTON — An Atlanta student’s slam poem has been around for a while, but the recent spate of racially charged incidents has brought his frank talk about his own privilege to the fore. Royce Mann, ...

ATLANTA (CBSNewYork)-- A teenager's poem titled "White Boy Privilege" is going viral following last week's racial unrest that saw the police shooting deaths of two black men and five Dallas officers ...