Category : The Word – Media

Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he...

Jesmyn Ward was born in 1977 in DeLisle, Mississippi. Her mother’s employer paid for her to attend a private school after she was bullied by...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, in full Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, (born September 30, 1975, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.), American essayist, journalist, and writer who often explored contemporary race relations,...

In a professional writing career that spans more than twenty years, Marita Golden has distinguished herself as a novelist, essayist, teacher of writing and literary...

Charles Richard Johnson is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and cartoonist. Johnson, whose balance of philosophy and folklore has been praised since the publication...

Of the bevy of African-American novelists that rose to popularity in the late 1990s, perhaps none seemed as natural a storyteller as Lolita Files. Her...

Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe, on February 11, 1937.  In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon...

Born February 15, 1951, in Detroit, Ml; daughter of Cornelius Hunter (retired teacher) and Delores Hunter (retired administrative assistant); one of seven children; married Mark...

Sonia Sanchez, née Wilsonia Benita Driver, (born September 9, 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.), American poet, playwright, and educator who was noted for her black activism....