Category : The Word – Media

Dr. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander’s contributions to American letters–four volumes of poetry, a novel, a biography, and numerous critical essays–mark her as one of this...

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, born on January 24, 1874, in Santurce, Puerto Rico, emerged as a pivotal figure in the study and preservation of African diaspora...

Jean Toomer, born in 1894 into an elite black family in Washington, D.C., endured a tumultuous childhood marked by the absence of his father and...

Robert Lee Vann, newspaper publisher, politician, government official, and civil rights leader, was born on August 27, 1879, in Ahoskie, North Carolina.  He graduated as...

The Chicago Defender was founded in 1905 by Robert Sengstacke Abbott.  Abbott published the first issue, a run of 300 copies, on May 6, 1905. ...

The Pittsburgh Courier was established in 1907 by Edwin Harleston, an aspiring writer and security guard at the H.J. Heinz food packing plant.  The Courier...

Angelina Weld Grimké was born on February 27, 1880, in Boston, Massachusetts, into a distinguished biracial family deeply rooted in social reform and intellectual achievement....

George Samuel Schuyler, a conservative columnist, was born in Providence, Rhode Island on February 25, 1895, to George Francis and Eliza Jane Schuyler. Upon his...

Poet, lyricist, short story writer, and playwright Georgia Douglas Johnson was born to George and Laura Douglas Camp in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 10, 1877. ...