2 Pages Open Document an African-American author WHO is best better-known for her seven autobiographies was additionally a prolific associated booming author. She has been known as "the black woman's author laureate", and her poems are known as the anthems of African Americans.[1] Angelou stu...
Langston Hughes was an African-American writer in the 20th century. In addition to his well-known poetry, Hughes published multiple other books across several genres including short stories, novels, children's books, and autobiographical works....
Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the impossible task of selecting the 100 best African American works from classic and contemporary poets. Out of necessity, Giovanni admits she cheats a little, selecting a larger, less round number. The result is this startlingly vibrant coll...
Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with the Supremes, the Miracles, the Temptations, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black ...
This is a list of African American racism movies featuring everything from 12 Years a Slave to The Help to Selma. What movies will you find on this list of movies about racism against Black people? Fruitvale Station concerns a modern tragedy. Based on the real-life death of Oscar Grant,...
I’m pretty sure that Gaines was the first African American writer with whom I came in contact–through one of his earliest works, Miss Jane Pittman. Much later, as a young professor, I began to include his A Lesson Before Dying on the reading list for my composition courses. After readi...
Margaret Walker was an American novelist and poet who was one of the leading black woman writers of the mid-20th century. After graduating from Northwestern University (B.A., 1935), Walker joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she began
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass (Feb. 7, 1817-Feb. 20, 1895) was an abolitionist, orator and writer who fought against slavery and for women's rights. Douglass was the first African-American citizen appointed to high ranks in the U.S. government. For more information on ...
File: American poet and writer Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), circa 1945. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In the 1920s and 30s, Black art would be given an international spotlight thanks to the rise of the Black Renaissance and New Negro Movement, according to ASALH. ...
AmericanwriterToniMorrisonwonthe1993NobelPrizeforliterature,theeighthwomanandthefirstblackwomantoreceivetheprize.MorrisonwritesaboutAfricanAmericanwomen,celebratingtheirstrengthandvitalityandrevealingtheirstruggles.•ShewonthePulitzerPrizein1988forBeloved(1987),whichexploredtheeffectsofslaveryonaformerslavelivinginOhio...