Category : The Word – Media

N. K. Jemisin is an author living and writing in Brooklyn, NY. This is fortunate as she enjoys subways, tiny apartments, and long walks through...

Harriet E. Wilson, néeHarriet E. Adams, (born 1828?, Milford, N.H.?, U.S.—died 1863?, Boston, Mass.?), one of the first African Americans to publish a novel in...

Frances E.W. Harper, in full Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, née Frances Ella Watkins, (born September 24, 1825, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died February 22, 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania),...

Ishmael Reed, in full Ishmael Scott Reed, (born February 22, 1938, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.), African American author of poetry, essays, satiric novels, and plays. Reed...

Toni Cade Bambara was an influential American author, educator, and social activist. She was born on March 25, 1939, in New York City, and she...

Paul Beatty is the author of the novels, Tuff, Slumberland and The White Boy Shuffle, and the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank and...

I wrote on everything and everywhere. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. (It was...