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Youngest person and first Black American to be the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. [3] [4] Sharon Draper (born 1948) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [5] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [6]
This is a list of notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, ... List of African-American writers;
C. James Edwin Campbell (poet) Robert Campbell (American artist) Steve Cannon (writer) Waverley Turner Carmichael; Cyrus Cassells; Barbara Chase-Riboud
These Black screenwriters, poets, authors, and songwriters have left an indelible mark on readers everywhere.View Entire Post ›
Nafis, who has teamed up with fellow poet Morgan Parker on projects like the Other Black Girl Collective, has work published both in print and online at The BreakBeat Poets Anthology, The Rumpus ...
This stunning autobiography may be the best-known work by Maya Angelou (1928-2014), the Black American poet and civil rights activist, but it’s actually the first in a seven-book series.
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Cole Arthur Riley's newest book is a collection of prayers, letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures ...