Category : The Word – Media

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 was an American writer and journalist, best known for his works depicting the struggles and triumphs of African Americans. Born on August 11,...

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...

Jamaica Kincaid is a prominent Caribbean-American writer known for her powerful and evocative literary works. Born in Antigua, she moved to the United States at...

Gwendolyn Bennett, an influential African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist, played a vital role in the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. Born...

Wallace Henry Thurman was a prominent figure in the African-American literary scene during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Born on August 16, 1902, in...

Dorothy West, (born June 2, 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 16, 1998, Boston), American writer who explored the aspirations and conflicts of middle-class African Americans...