Barbara Chase-Riboud, an American artist and author, was born on June 26, 1939, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Charles and Vivian Chase....
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...
Alice Allison Dunnigan was an influential African American journalist, civil rights activist, and author. Born on April 27, 1906, in Russellville, Kentucky, she overcame numerous...
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...
In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now It’s not every day that you...
The Negro World (1918–1933) was the organ of Marcus Garvey‘s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the most massive African-American and Pan-African movement of all time....
Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927) stands as a towering yet often underappreciated figure in African American history, a polymath whose contributions as an activist, orator, writer,...
A Champion of Abolition and Equality David Walker, an African-American abolitionist, left an indelible mark on the fight against slavery in the United States. Born...
A Controversial Voice in African American Discourse Shahrazad Ali, born on April 27, 1954, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an African American author, social commentator, and...