Alice Walker
Alice Walker is an American author, poet, and activist, best known for her novel “The Color Purple,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in...
Category : The Word – Media
Maya Angelou
02005
Maya Angelou was an influential American author, poet, and civil rights activist. Born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Angelou overcame a challenging...
Langston Hughes
02838
Langston Hughes was an influential American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, and grew...
Toni Morrison
01295
Toni Morrison was an American novelist, essayist, editor, and professor who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential writers of the...
René Maran
01432
René Maran, born on November 5, 1887, in Martinique to Guyanese parents, emerged as a significant figure in French literature and journalism, distinguished as the...
Melvin Tolson
01729
Melvin Tolson, in full Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, (born Feb. 6, 1898, Moberly, Mo., U.S.—died Aug. 29, 1966, Dallas, Texas?), an African-American poet who worked within...
Ida B. Wells
02662
Ida B. Wells was an influential African American journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. Born into slavery on July 16, 1862,...