Lucy Terry: Singer Of History
[dropcap size=small]L[/dropcap]ucy Terry Prince, known as Lucy Terry, (c. 1730–1821) was brought to Rhode Island from Africa. Her future husband purchased her freedom before their...
Category : Literature
Black authors, poets and playwrights. Literary Quotes and Poems.
Nicolás Guillén: Cuban Poet of Social Protest
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. A leading figure of “poesia égra” (“black poetry”), and an influential campaigner...
June Millicent Jordan: Caribbean-American Poet and Activist
June Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002), the Caribbean-American poet, activist, journalist, essayist and teacher, was known for her fierce commitment to human...
Margaret Walker: A Literary Mother
Margaret Walker was an African American poet and writer. She began her literary career in the 1930s and emerged as a “literary mother” to writers...
For My People by Margaret Walker
For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an...
Filthy Negroes by Jacques Roumain
It is said that there was a great deal of anger and even rage in the writings of Jacques Roumain, especially in his poem, “Filthy...
Listen Children by Lucille Clifton
listen children keep this in the place you have for keeping always keep it all ways we have never hated black listen we have been...
Angelina Weld Grimké
Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American poet and playwright, an important forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. “I oft have dreamed the bliss Of the nectar in...
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]daobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani (born in 1976) is a Nigerian novelist, humorist, essayist and journalist. Her debut novel, I Do Not Come to You by Chance, won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best...
When You Have Emptied Our Calabashes by Iyamide Hazeley
When you have emptied our calabashes into your porcelain bowls overflowing the surplus spilling and seeping into foreign soil when you have cleaved the heads...