Posts Tagged ‘Black authors and writers’
Trailblazing Black feminist and social critic bell hooks dies at 69
By Harrison Smith, Washington Post Trailblazing Black feminist bell hooks, whose graceful, probing and wide-ranging books sought to empower people of all races, classes and genders, anticipating and helping shape ongoing debates about justice and discrimination in the United States, died Dec. 15 at her home in Berea, Ky. She was 69. The cause was…
Read More‘So Impactful’: Michigan Woman Opens Bookstore Celebrating Black Authors
By Angelina Velasquez, Atlanta Black Star A Michigan bookstore is giving Black authors the spotlight they have long deserved but often struggled to find. Socialight Society bookstore is a microshop, a store located inside another store, in this case Soul Nutrition, where book curator Nyshell Lawrence has made it a priority to give Black authors, especially those…
Read MoreRapper Noname opens Radical Hood Library in Los Angeles
After several months of construction, rapper Noname finally opened up her Radical Hood Library.
Read MoreJason Reynolds: ‘Snoop Dogg once told white folks: ‘I know you hate me. But your kids don’t.’ That’s how I feel
America’s ambassador for young people’s literature talks about touring Trump country, facing down racism and why there’s no such thing as a bad kid.
Read MoreEarly Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists
My Nig tells another side of the enslaved story. The book relates the same torture and inhumane conditions as in the south but added the silence of the Abolitionists in Milford, New Hampshire.
Read MoreFighting Racism…Especially Where We Don’t Realize It Exists
In his new book, award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi “pushes those of us who believe we are not racists to become something else: antiracists, who support ideas and policies affirming that “the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences — that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.” A book review by historian Jeffrey C, Stewart.
Read MoreToni Morrison obituary
Toni Morrison was sometimes criticized for not writing about white people (she denied this), and she made no apologies for writing for “black people.” She wrote the stories that she wanted to read, because no one else was writing them.
Read MoreJanet Mock Breaks Through the Isolation for Transgender Women of Color
Janet Mock has challenged us all to question our perceptions of challenges facing transgender girls and women of color.
Read MoreNew Wave of African Writers With an Internationalist Bent
Discover the names and stories of African writers who are garnering attention and awards for their work.
Read MoreWas the Author of The Three Musketeers a Black Man?
Alexandre Dumas wrote some of the best-known literature, but few people know about his personal life–or ethnicity.
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