Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Editor, Novelist, Visionary
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 – August 13, 1930) was a prominent African American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor. Hopkins was one of the first...
Category : Literature
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Alex Haley: Author of ‘Roots’
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...
Quotes from “Dreams From My Father” by President Obama
“To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.”...
James Baldwin: Witness to the truth
James Arthur Baldwin was an African American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, who is considered to be one of the 20th century’s greatest...
Chester Himes
Chester Himes was an African American writer best known for his series of Harlem detective novels. In 1958 he won France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Policière....
If You Know Her by Kwame Dawes
If you know your woman, know her rhythms, know her ways; if you paying attention to her all these years, you will know how she...
What’s the Hour of the Night? by Queen Mother Audley Moore
After four score years of freedomOur so-called leaders sayThe the race has made great progressAnd we face the dawn of dayBut the day is not...
Alexandre Dumas: The Father of great swashbuckling historical epics
Alexandre Dumas is a celebrated French author best known for his historical adventure novels, including The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Dumas...
Quincy Troupe: California’s First Official Poet Laureate
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. is an awarding-winning African-American author of ten volumes of poetry, three children’s books, and six non-fiction works. Troupe was California’s first...
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar Nelson: An African American Diarist
Alice Ruth Moore, educator, author and social activist, was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. An...