In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system.

Door of No Return: Yellen visits onetime slave-trading post The Treasury secretary, on a trip aimed at rebuilding U.S.-African economic relations, acknowledged the ongoing ramifications of a ...

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Morning Edition's poet-in-resident Kwame Alexander about his new Young Adult book: The Door of No Return.

Yellen, in Senegal as part of a 10-day trip aimed at rebuilding economic relationships between the U.S. and Africa, stood in the Gorée Island building known as the House of Slaves and peered out ...

“In both Africa and the United States, even as we have made tremendous strides, we are still living with the brutal consequences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade,” she said.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stands in the “Door Of No Return” on Goree Island, Senegal, Saturday Jan. 21, 2023. Yellen has paid a solemn visit to an island off Senegal that is one of ...

Yellen is in Senegal as part of a 10-day trip aimed at rebuilding economic relationships between the U.S. and Africa.