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African Americans. Carolyn Marie Rodgers (December 14, 1940 [1] – April 2, 2010) was a Chicago -based writer, particularly noted for her poetry. [2] The youngest of four, Rodgers had two sisters and a brother, born to Clarence and Bazella Rodgers. Rodgers was also a founder of one of America's oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press.
Nikki Giovanni. Yolande Cornelia " Nikki " Giovanni Jr.[ 1 ][ 2 ] (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, [ 2 ] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social ...
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, and was raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. She was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. [ 2 ] Her father, a janitor for a music company, had hoped to pursue a career as a doctor but sacrificed that aspiration to support getting ...
Cheryl Clarke. Cheryl L. Clarke (born Washington DC, May 16, 1947) [1] is an American lesbian poet, essayist, educator and a Black feminist community activist who continues to dedicate her life to the recognition and advancement of Black and Queer people. Her scholarship focuses on African-American women's literature, black lesbian feminism ...
Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [ 1 ] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a ...
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.
Contents. Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [ 1 ] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial ...
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and ...