When Black authors write what they know ... youngest person to ever receive the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2022. When Ward isn’t writing, she is in the classroom working ...

and asked why there were so few African American science fiction authors. In a widely cited description of Afrofuturism, musician and writer Greg Tate referenced life as a Black person in the USA in ...

Many of these published works were the memoirs of the formerly enslaved; but volumes of poetry and some fiction, along with a ... Equiano was not the first author of African descent and claimed by ...

Not only do they have the power to educate and teach us, they can also inspire ... here are 11 of the best non-fiction books by Black authors to have on your radar this Black History Month.

As the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov once wrote ... Sign up Adeyemi, a Nigerian American writer, merges West African mythology with a textual undercurrent about the effects ...

and the Bossier Parish Library is shining a spotlight some local Black authors and artists. ”We wanted to host this event today to have a platform for African Americans to highlight their arts, their ...

“American Fiction” is adapted by Jefferson from Percival Everett ... The sad reality is literary gatekeepers force the hands of Black authors by greenlighting a limited number Black novels with a high ...

Specializes in American literature of the last century, especially modernist narrative, African-American fiction, and contemporary women ... Contemporary American Women Writers, Bodies and Borders, ...