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The club predates nearly all of the cultural organizations in the country and is the oldest for African American women in Virginia. It is also one of the oldest book clubs of African American women in the United States. The club's founding members were Mrs. Annie Hughes, Mrs. Ellen Russell, Mrs. Emma Roper, Mrs. Blanche Burke, and Mrs. Lucille ...
AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club, is a website dedicated to books and film by and about African Americans and people of African descent, with content also aimed at African-American bookstores. [1] [2] AALBC.com publishes book and film reviews, author profiles, resources for writers and related articles. Launched in 1998 ...
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership: Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman Finalist [22] Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America: Jill Leovy: Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America: Wil Haygood: The Light of the World: Elizabeth ...
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 8, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson.First published in 1859, [1] it was rediscovered in 1981 by Henry Louis Gates Jr. [2] and was subsequently reissued with an introduction by Gates (London: Allison & Busby, 1984). [3]
Jill Nelson (born June 14, 1952) is an African-American journalist and novelist. She has written several books, including the autobiographical Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, which won an American Book Award. [1] She was Professor of Journalism at the City College of New York from 1998 to 2003. [2]
While a graduate student, Williams published Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography in 1999, [2] [3] reviewed in Feminist Collections as "a service to theatrical producers and play enthusiasts alike" by locating more than sixty African American female writers with works published between 1959 and 1997—a group given minimal space in anthologies and other ...