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In 2019 the 80 finalists included 3 authors of color. [2] Two Black authors, Kennedy Ryan and M. Malone, won that year. [4] In 2020 the RITA award was renamed the Vivian after Black RWA founder Vivian Stephens, the Dell editor who created the Candlelight Ecstasy imprint and was an early champion of Black romance authors. [4]
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]
These colors are also reflected in the Pan-African flag (black, red, and green) and the Ethiopian flag (green, gold, and red), which both have uplifting backgrounds that highlight the resilience ...
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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 ...
One of the earliest Black classic books on this list, “The Souls of Black Folk,” is a 1903 collection of essays by Harvard-educated scholar and author W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963).
Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), award-winning author of books for children and adolescents, including "Brown Girl Dreaming" David Wright (born 1964) Jay Wright (born 1934), poet; Kelly Wright, author of Outed Obsession and Fatal Fixation; Richard Wright (1908–1960), writer of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction; Sarah E. Wright (1928 ...
Her most famous work is “Their Eyes Were Watching God” (1937), the story of Janie, a Black woman searching for love. The book was initially poorly received.