Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
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James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to...
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Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the...
Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist, whose work has appeared in more than one hundred...
“A free black mind is a concealed weapon!” Samuel Greenlee, Jr. was an African-American novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist, teacher, and talk show host, best known for his novel The Spook Who...
June Jordan, the Caribbean-American poet, activist, journalist, essayist, and teacher, was known for her fierce commitment to human...
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and...
Ytasha L. Womack is the author, filmmaker, dancer and innovator whose book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy explores black sci fi culture, bleeks, black comix, and the...
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…
