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| x Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he...
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| x Bill Cosby |
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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer, musician and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a starring role in the 1960s action...
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| x Barack Obama |
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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...
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| x Samuel R. Delany |
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Samuel Ray "Chip" Delany, Jr. (born April 1, 1942, New York City) is an American author, professor and literary critic. His work includes a number of novels, many in the science fiction genre, as well as memoir, criticism, and nonfiction essays on...
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| x Octavia E. Butler |
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science...
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| x Bell Hooks |
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Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by the pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce...
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| x Katherine Dunham |
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Katherine Mary Dunham (22 June 1909 – 21 May 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator and activist who was trained as an anthropologist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European...
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| x Nalo Hopkinson |
Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms) and short stories such as those...
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| x Cornel West |
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Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist, as well as a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West currently serves as the University Professor at...
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| x Delbert Baker |
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Delbert W. Baker is a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, educator, and administrator. He is the current president of Oakwood University (formerly Oakwood College).
Delbert W. Baker was born on January 25, 1953, in Oakland, California, to Paul...
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| x Ahmos Zu-Bolton |
Ahmos Zu-Bolton II (October 21, 1935 – March 8, 2005) was an activist, poet and playwright also known for his editing and publishing endeavors on behalf of African-American culture.
Born Oct. 21, 1935, in Poplarville, Mississippi, Zu-Bolton grew up...
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| x Maya Angelou |
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Maya Angelou (pronounced /ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best...
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| x Tina McElroy Ansa |
Tina McElroy Ansa (born November 18, 1949) is an African American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist. Born Tina McElroy to Walter J. and Nellie McElroy in Macon, Georgia, where she grew up in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. After...
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| x Mechelle Avey |
Felice Mechelle Avey (born in Odessa, Texas) is an African-American author. Always an avid reader, Avey founded the now-defunct Multicultural Writers Group on AOL. After the group disbanded, Avey completed her first novel: A Lifetime Loving You,...
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| x Michael Baisden |
Michael Baisden (born June 27, 1963) is an American author, motivational speaker, host of the TV One talk show Baisden After Dark, and host of his own nationally-syndicated radio show.
Baisden was born June 26, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois. He was...
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| x James Baldwin |
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James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – November 30, 1987) was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist.
Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States...
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| x Toni Cade Bambara |
Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995) was an American author, social activist, and college professor.
Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939. She grew up in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. She attended schools in...
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| x Leslie Esdaile Banks |
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Leslie Esdaile Banks (born December 11, 1959) is an African American writer. She has written in various genres, including African American literature, romance, women's fiction, crime suspense, dark fantasy/horror and non-fiction. Leslie writes under...
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| x Amiri Baraka |
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Amiri Baraka, formerly known as Leroi Jones, (born October 7, 1934) is a controversial American writer of poetry, drama, essays, and music criticism.
Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, where he attended Barringer High School....
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| x Steven Barnes |
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Steven Barnes (born March 1, 1952 in Los Angeles, CA) is a science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician. Barnes has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode...
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| x Paul Beatty |
Paul Beatty (born 1962 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary African-American author. Beatty received an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an MA in psychology from Boston University.
In 1990, Paul Beatty was crowned the first ever Grand...
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| x Derrick Bell |
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Derrick A. Bell, Jr. (born November 6, 1930) is a visiting professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law for the past 15 years and a major figure within the legal studies discipline of Critical Race Theory.
Born in the Hill...
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| x Lerone Bennett, Jr. |
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Lerone Bennett, Jr. (born 17 October 1928) is an American scholar, and prolific author and social historian.
Bennett was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the son of Lerone Bennett, Sr. and Alma Reed. When he was young, his family moved to Jackson,...
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| x Bertice Berry |
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Dr. Bertice Berry (born 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator.
Berry grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University in Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State...
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| x Marita Bonner |
Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899 – 1971) was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also known as Marita Occomy, Marita Odette Bonner, Marita Odette Bonner Occomy, Marita...
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| x Arna Bontemps |
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Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 - June 4, 1973) was a well-known American poet and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance. As the librarian at Fisk University, he established important collections of African-American literature and culture...
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| x David Bradley |
David H. Bradley (born September 7, 1950 in Bedford, Pennsylvania) is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon and author of South Street and the The Chaneysville Incident, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1982.
The...
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| x Gwendolyn Brooks |
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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (7 June 1917 – 3 December 2000) was an American writer. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas to...
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| x Hallie Quinn Brown |
Hallie Quinn Brown (1849 – 1949) was an American educator, writer and activist. She attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, gaining a Bachelor of Science degree. After graduating she became a teacher and later returned to Wilberforce to teach....
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| x William Wells Brown |
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William Wells Brown (November 6, 1816 – November 6, 1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist...
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| x Ed Bullins |
Ed Bullins (born July 2, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African American playwright. He is known for writing plays such as 'In the Wine Tine' and 'Goin A Buffalo.' He was also the minister of culture for the Black Panther Movement; the...
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| x Olivia Ward Bush |
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Olivia Ward Bush Banks (May 23, 1869 - 1944) was an American author, poet and journalist of both African American and Montaukett Native American descent. Ward celebrated both of her heritages in her poetry and writing. She was a regular contributor...
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| x Bebe Moore Campbell |
Bebe Moore Campbell (February 18, 1950 – November 27, 2006), was the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Brothers and Sisters, Singing in the Comeback Choir, and What You Owe Me, which was also a Los Angeles Times "Best Book of 2001". Her...
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| x Stokely Carmichael |
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Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael (June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), also known as Kwame Toure, was a Trinidadian-American black activist active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. He rose to prominence first as a leader of the...
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| x Stephen L. Carter |
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Stephen L. Carter (born October 26, 1954) is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist. He is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he has taught since...
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| x Cyrus Cassells |
Cyrus Cassells (born 1957) is an American poet and professor. His most recent collection of poetry is More Than Peace and Cyresses (Copper Canyon Press), and his fifth book, The Crossed-Out Swastika, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2010....
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| x Charles W. Chesnutt |
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 – November 15, 1932) was an author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity.
Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to...
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| x Rasheed Clark |
Rasheed Clark (born April 10, 1975) is a best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life.
Rasheed Clark was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1998, Clark began a short story about a woman telling...
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| x Troy CLE |
Troy Tompkins, known as Troy CLE, is an American fiction writer from East Orange, New Jersey. He is the author of The Marvelous Effect, the first book in The Marvelous World Saga. The book follows young African-American protagonist Louis Proof. The...
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| x Pearl Cleage |
Pearl Cleage (born December 7, 1948) is an African-American poet, essayist, and journalist living in Atlanta, Georgia. An activist on issues including AIDS, women's rights, and black life, her first novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day ...
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| x Eldridge Cleaver |
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Eldridge Cleaver (August 31, 1935 – May 1, 1998) was an influential writer, social critic and radical intellectual and the author of Soul on Ice, Post-Prison Writings and Speeches and Target Zero. Cleaver served as the Minister of Information for...
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| x Michelle Cliff |
Michelle Cliff (born 2 November 1946) is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng and Free Enterprise.
Cliff also has written short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism. Her works explore...
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| x Lucille Clifton |
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Lucille Clifton (born June 27, 1936) is an American poet, writer, and educator from New York. Common topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African American heritage, and feminist themes, with particular emphasis on the female body....
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| x Wendy Coakley-Thompson |
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Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born Wendy Cecille Thompson on December 27, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York), is a mainstream fiction author. Coakley-Thompson's work is part of emerging millennial contemporary African American literature. Coakley-Thompson's...
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| x Wanda Coleman |
Wanda Coleman (birth name, Wanda Evans) (born November 13, 1946) is an American poet. She is known as "the L.A. Blueswoman," and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles."
Coleman was born Wanda Evans, and grew up in the Watts neighborhood of...
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| x Marvel Cooke |
Marvel Cooke (April 4, 1903 – November 29, 2000) was an American journalist, writer, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to work at a mainstream white-owned newspaper.
Cooke was born in Mankato, Minnesota and...
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| x Anna J. Cooper |
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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (ca. August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an author, educator, and one of the most prominent African American scholars in United States history. Upon receiving her Ph.D in history from the University of Paris-Sorbonne...
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| x J. California Cooper |
Joan California Cooper is an African-American playwright and author.
"Her style is deceptively simple and direct and the vale of tears in which her characters reside is never so deep that a rich chuckle at a foolish person's foolishness cannot be...
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| x Jayne Cortez |
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Jayne Cortez (born May 10, 1936 Fort Huachuca, Arizona) is an American poet, and performance artist.
She grew up in California. She is the author of ten books of poems and performer of her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her voice is...
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| x Donald Crews |
Donald Crews (born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1938) is a U.S. writer and illustrator of several well-known children's picture books. He won the Caldecott Honor twice. Common subjects of his include modern technology (especially travel vehicles), and...
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| x Stanley Crouch |
Stanley Crouch (born December 14, 1945, Los Angeles) is an African-American music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, and novelist, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism, and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?
During the early 1970s,...
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| x Countee Cullen |
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Countee Cullen (March 30, 1903–January 9, 1946) was an American Romantic poet. Cullen was one of the leading African American poets of his time, associated with the generation of black poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
Cullen was born with the name...
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| x Christopher Paul Curtis |
Christopher Paul Curtis (born May 10, 1953) is an American children's author and a Newbery Medal winner who wrote the The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both...
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| x Jeffrey Daniels |
Jeffrey Sean Daniels is a Chicago-raised African American poet, artist, and professor at Harold Washington College. He has previously taught at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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| x Edwidge Danticat |
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Edwidge Danticat (pronounced: Dahn-tee-kah; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-born American author.
Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When she was two years old, her father André emigrated to New York, to be followed two years later by...
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| x Angela Davis |
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Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist and retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was director of the university's Feminist Studies...
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| x Frank Marshall Davis |
Frank Marshall Davis (December 31, 1905, Arkansas City, Kansas; July 26, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American journalist, poet and political and labor movement activist. In 1950 he was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee ...
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| x Lucy Delaney |
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Lucy Delaney (c. 1830 – after 1891) was an African-American author and former slave, remembered for her inspiring 1891 narrative From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedom. The memoir recounts her mother Polly Berry's struggle for...
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| x Eric Jerome Dickey |
Eric Jerome Dickey (born July 7, 1961) is a New York Times best-selling American author best known for his novels about contemporary African-American life. He is also known for writing several crime novels involving grifters, ex cons, and assassins,...
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| x Anita Doreen Diggs |
Anita Doreen Diggs (born 1966 in New York City) is an American editor, novelist, and lecturer.
Diggs grew up in New York City where she attended public schools in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan.
She later worked as a senior editor at Random...
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