African American women writers have helped to bring the black woman’s experience to life for millions of readers. They’ve written of what it was like to live in slavery, what Jim Crow America was like, what 20th and 21st century America have been like for black women.
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Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100 – NPR
In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Hers was a Pulitzer in poetry, specifically for a volume titled Annie Allen that chronicled the life of an ordinary black girl growing up in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s famous South Side.
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Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison Honored by Authors Guild – Atlanta Black Star
NEW YORK (AP) — Toni Morrison praised the power of literature and the “community” of writers. James Patterson told some jokes and even sang.
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Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry, was young, gifted and Black – New York Amsterdam News
Finding a female counterpart to the remarkable August Wilson is not easy, but Lorraine Hansberry comes close, and she came to mind additionally as we prepare for Malcolm X’s birthday May 19, which she shared.
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James Baldwin’s letters acquired by the Schomburg – New York Amsterdam News
James Baldwin, a native son of Harlem, is home again, at least some of his precious letters and other artifacts are after having been acquisitioned by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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Peruse a Pop-Up Library of Books by Black Women Authors in Bushwick – Hyperallergic
On April 2, exchange and peruse books by black women authors at OlaRonke Akinmowo’s Free Black Women’s Library at NURTUREart.
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This 23-Year-Old Nigerian Author’s Afrofuturist Novel Has Been Picked Up By Fox Studios – Okay Africa
We’ve been celebrating African women all month at OkayAfrica, and today we get to add yet another to our list!
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The Badass Wife of W.E.B. Du Bois – OZY
Du Bois Couldn’t Have Had That Last Important Phase Of His Life Without The Partnership He Had With Shirley [Graham Du Bois].
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The Misunderstood Ghost of James Baldwin – Slate
How critics have misconstrued his influence on today’s great black nonfiction writers.
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Meet Raoul Peck, Director of the Powerful New James Baldwin Documentary ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ – Okay Africa
“The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story. What can we do?”
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