African American Authors

African American Women authors

*The birth of Ann Plato around 1820 is celebrated on this date. She was a nineteenth century Black educator and author. Plato was born in Hartford…

Authors alphabetical list

Imagine you’re sitting in a movie theater. As the film begins, actors’ names flash across the screen. The order of the names is determined by…

Most famous African-Americans

Armstrong, Louis Daniel Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 - July 6, 1971) was a great jazz trumpet player, composer, and singer. He was nicknamed…

Black/African American authors

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Books by African American authors 2014

This February, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) released its statistics on the number of children’s books by and about people of…

Famous African American female authors

The New York-born artist Edmonia Lewis, of African-American and Native-American descent, studied at Oberlin College in the early 1860s and later…

African American male authors

The Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME) encourages scholarly submissions from education researchers and practitioners which…

African American picture books authors

Barrett, Mary Brigid Shoebox Sam On Saturdays, Delia and Jesse help Shoebox Sam, who teaches them about charity and love by not only repairing…

Iconic African Americans

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” The Rev. Al Sharpton “Avoiding meat is…

Influential African Americans

Welcome to Savoy Magazine’s 2014 Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America (Savoy Top 100). The Savoy Top 100 is the definitive list…

Women Problem

When Desire Dies: Bringing Your Sex Drive Back to Life By Colette Bouchez WebMD Feature Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD I used to enjoy making…

African American authors Best Sellers

As we near the end of the 2013, we enter the season when major newspapers and magazines release their “Best of [enter year] lists”. So naturally…

Students of color at universities, including Williams College, pictured above, have increasingly put pressure on administrators to confront longstanding…

Famous modernist writers

Definition: Fair warning, fair Shmoopers: this one s a doozy. The word modern has a whole boatload of different meanings, and what constitutes…

What are Contemporary novels?

Ugh. I still feel that clammy, feeble definition, flapping in my hand, gasping for breath. I pity the puny creature. May it swim the etherial…