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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. [4] [5] Sharon Draper (born 1948) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [6] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [7]
C. James Edwin Campbell (poet) Robert Campbell (American artist) Steve Cannon (writer) Waverley Turner Carmichael; Cyrus Cassells; Barbara Chase-Riboud
This is a list of notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, poet, playwright [1]
Every year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more diverse stories and The post 20 Black poets to know this National Black Poetry Day appeared first on ...
Their words cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America. The post 14 Amazing Black Poets to Know About Now appeared first on Reader's Digest.
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 ...
African-American male songwriters (1 C, 157 P) Pages in category "African-American male writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 393 total.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.