Anna Julia Cooper
Anna Julia Cooper, née Anna Julia Haywood, (born August 10, 1858?, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.—died February 27, 1964, Washington, D.C.), American educator and writer whose...
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Aimé Césaire
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Aimé Césaire was born June 26, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, a small town on the northeast coast of Martinique in the French Caribbean. He attended the...
How Zora Neale Hurston captured the poetry of African-American folklife
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In 1931, the last surviving captive of an American slave ship was interviewed by Zora Neale Hurston. It was not the only time Hurston would...
Michelle Alexander
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Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, professor, and scholar who is best known for her acclaimed work The New Jim Crow (2010). Born...
John Henrik Clarke – The pioneer who made Africana Studies prominent in Academia
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting...
Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Barbara Chase-Riboud was born on June 26, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Charles and Vivian Chase and is known for her controversial novel Sally Hemings, poetry, and sculptures, including the Malcolm X Steles....
E. R. Braithwaite
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E.R. Braithwaite, (Eustace Edward Ricardo Braithwaite), Guyanese author and diplomat (born June 27, 1912, Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]—died Dec. 12, 2016, Rockville, Md.), was the author of the...
Paule Marshall
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Paule Marshall, original name Valenza Pauline Burke, (born April 9, 1929, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 2019, Richmond, Virginia), American novelist whose works emphasized a...