Author Toni Morrison has died. In the 88 years she lived, Morrison garnered acclaim for writing about the lives of black Americans, and not just how those lives intersected with white people. Books ...

NEWPORT NEWS – Toni Joann Morrison, 56, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, at Mary Immaculate Hospital. She was born in Portsmouth, to Dallas and Carol Petersen. She attended Churchland High ...