Virginia Esther Hamilton was born on March 12, 1936, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Her maternal grandfather, Levi Perry, escaped slavery in the nineteenth-century American South...
Poet, essayist, and entrepreneur Haki Madhubuti embodies the true spirit of a renaissance man as he moves seamlessly through the worlds of literature, business, and...
Anne Moody didn’t just write about civil rights, she lived it. Anne Moody is a well-known contemporary black native Mississippi author and civil rights leader....
Born in Georgia, Ms. Jewell Crawford graduated from Spelman College and received a Master’s in African Studies from Howard University where she wrote her thesis...
Prominent in the pantheon of Afrocentric scholars is Chancellor James Williams, the son of a former slave, born on December 22, 1898, in Bennettsville, South...
Joyce A. Ladner’s work spans the roles of sociology professor, university president, presidential appointee, and national public policy analyst. A prolific scholar, Ladner has published...