Anne Spencer
Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of...
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
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Alice Dunbar Nelson, in full Alice Ruth Dunbar Nelson, née Moore, (born July 19, 1875, New Orleans, La., U.S.—died Sept. 18, 1935, Philadelphia, Pa.), novelist,...
Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith, originally Sadie Smith, (born October 27, 1975, in London, England), is the British author known for her treatment of race, religion, and cultural...
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...
William Still
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William Still (1821–1902) was an African-American abolitionist, writer, and Underground Railroad conductor. He was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, to parents who were formerly...
Anna Julia Cooper
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Anna Julia Cooper (1858 – 1964) was a visionary black feminist leader, educator, intellectual, and activist. She rose to prominence as one of the country’s...
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 (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, playwright, politician, and intellectual whose work profoundly shaped postcolonial literature and thought. As a co-founder of the Négritude...
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...