Michelle Alexander
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...
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John Henrik Clarke
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A Pioneer in Africana Studies and Pan-Africanism John Henrik Clarke, born on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, Alabama, emerged as a towering figure in...
Barbara Chase-Riboud
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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
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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...
Alice Allison Dunnigan
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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
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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...
A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang
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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...
T. Thomas Fortune
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A Pioneering Voice in African American Journalism T. Thomas Fortune may not be as widely recognized today as some of his contemporaries, but he was...
Negro World
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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 Harrison, the radical Caribbean immigrant in Harlem who was described as the ‘Black Socrates’
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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,...