At a time when our stories are being challenged, banned and erased, Prose to the People isn’t just a love letter to Black ...

On Tuesday, the author, 52, released her debut novel Summer on the Bluffs, which she tells PEOPLE is her "love letter to Black people, Black women and Latina women." Set in Oak Bluffs, a town ...

During this time, Mitchell says, she grew to love Langston Hughes’ “My People ... Mitchell wrote a letter to the poet sharing that they were both members of the Black sorority Delta ...