Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith, originally Sadie Smith, (born October 27, 1975, London, England), the British author known for her treatment of race, religion, and cultural identity and...
Category : The Word
Charles W. Chesnutt – This black writer penned plantation fiction while passing as white
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Charles W. Chesnutt, in full Charles Waddell Chesnutt, (born June 20, 1858, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.—died Nov. 15, 1932, Cleveland), first important black American novelist. Chesnutt...
Anna Julia Cooper
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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...
Négritude
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Négritude was both a literary and ideological movement led by French-speaking black writers and intellectuals from France’s colonies in Africa and the Caribbean in the...
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....