These women came before Kindle, and forever changed opportunities available to Black women authors in America.
Category: Books
People Once Read Zora Could Not Write
What ignited our spirits about the work was the awesome imagining of the unrecognizable language it presented in the midst of drama we could recognize.
Great African-American Books of 2014
Compiling this list of 2014 books by or about Black Americans which I read cover-to-cover, or keep on my "To Read" mantle, is how I have officially begun my holidays; there is just something about putting hands deep into books (with covers and pages) that makes everything all right.
We Had Some Phenomenal Fiction in 2014.
It feels wondrous to see a Black American woman at the helm of both literary and mainstream fiction in America (Roxane Gay), and we are all happy for Jacqueline Woodsons' National Book Award win. However, I wondered where were big, majestic books by my Black American sisters at front of the bookstore and many more smaller books Black American women really had to talk about?
Stories of Dynamic Women In Print and On Screen (Part Two)
Chances are, Hollywood producers will find a way to turn young Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's triumphant story I Am Malala into a movie sooner than we all learn to pronounce her last name. In the meantime, here are five more women’s true-to-life tales you can read on the page and then watch onscreen...
Stories of Dynamic Women In Print and On Screen (Part One)
Chances are, Hollywood producers will find a way to turn young Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai's triumphant story I Am Malala into a movie sooner than we all learn to pronounce her last name. In the meantime, here are five women’s true-to-life tales you can read on the page and then see onscreen: 1. The Diary of Anne Frank … Continue reading Stories of Dynamic Women In Print and On Screen (Part One)
Harsh History: A Gem of Our Libraries
The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, housed in Chicago’s Carter G. Woodson Library, is an invaluable display of the flowering of Black history and culture within a Northern, urban environment galvanized by the energy of hundreds of thousands of post-war Black migrants from the South.
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