Viola Desmond: Black Canadian Civil Rights Pioneer
July 6, 2015
Ntozake Shange centered Black women’s lives in an expansive literary world. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, she...
Arna Wendell Bontemps was a prominent American writer, poet, and librarian who played a key role during the...
Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose creative life spanned fiction, visual design, and books on racism, relationships, and Black...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators,...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer, poet, political journalist, and international commentator, he made literature answerable to the lived...
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most widely read African American writers and a formidable public intellectual. A poet, novelist, essayist, lecturer, abolitionist, suffragist, temperance worker, and...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of...
Georgia Douglas Johnson was among the earliest African American women poets to gain widespread recognition and became one...
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. Hopkins was one of the first writers to introduce racial and social...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
