Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer,...
“I am a thinker, writer, activist, creative being, man, dad, husband, grandpop, and son. But just to keep...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist. Although she never published her own volume of poetry, she was one of the most revered poets of her...
James Weldon Johnson was an African-American writer, who distinguished himself in civil rights, diplomacy, education, journalism, law, literature,...
“I wanted to understand my people. I wanted to understand what it meant to be a [Black]. What...
I dream a world… where wretchedness will hang its head, and joy like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world! [dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]angston Hughes, best...
Harriet E. Wilson is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of...
Frances E.W. Harper was a leading African-American poet and writer. She was also an ardent activist in the...
Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet best known for his radical sonnet “If We Must Die,” one of the most militant and enduring poems associated with the Harlem Renaissance. McKay, a...
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...
Alex Haley is the celebrated author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). By April 1977 almost two million hardcover copies of the book had been sold and 130...
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…
