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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] Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [8] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 ...
Dr. Maya Angelou attends her 82nd birthday party with friends and family at her home on May 20, 2010 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (Photo by Steve Exum/Getty Images)
Critics consider her work fundamental to the genre of African-American literature, [2] and she is honored as the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry and the first to make a living from her writing. [56] In 2002, the scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Phillis Wheatley as one of his 100 Greatest African Americans. [57]
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My Ticket Home, alternative metal band; O.A.R., roots rock band; Phil Ochs (1940–1976), folk-activist singer and songwriter; grew up in Columbus, which provided the inspiration for his song "Boy in Ohio"; studied journalism at Ohio State University; Don Patterson (1936–1988), jazz organist
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.
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 songwriters (3 C, 841 P) Pages in category "African-American writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 302 total.