Category : The Word – Media

Gloria Naylor (1950-2016) was an American author known for her insightful and powerful works of fiction. She was born on January 25, 1950, in New...

Sheneska Jackson was born in 1970, in California, United States. Jackson and her brother Marcell grew up in a single-parent household headed by their mother,...

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947- February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the very few African-American women in the field....

Walter Mosley is an acclaimed American author known for his contributions to the crime fiction genre. He was born on January 12, 1952, in Los...

Despite his literary focus on black, young, middle-class, urban professionals, Everette Lynn Harris (June 20, 1955 – July 23, 2009) and his three younger sisters...

Alex Haley (1921-1992) was an American writer and journalist best known for his book “Roots: The Saga of an American Family.” Haley was born in...

Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee and attended the University of Memphis (the former Memphis State), where he earned his degree in Computer...

J. California Cooper first found acclaim as a playwright. The author of seventeen plays, she was named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978. It...

Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon (February 18, 1950 – November 27, 2006) was the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Brothers and Sisters, Singing...

The novelist and poet Gayl Jones were born November 23, 1949, in Lexington, Kentucky.  She came from a creative background; her grandmother Amanda Wilson wrote...