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CARTER™ Magazine "Where History and Hip-Hop Meet"
Today In History Alex Haley, author of Roots and the Autobiography of Malcolm X, was born in Ithaca, NY, on this date August 11, 1921. Haley served in the U.S. Coast Guard for two decades before...
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Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 / 2021 (image: Toni Morrison, New York, NY, February 13, 1974. Photo © Jill Krementz)
CARTER™ Magazine "Where History and Hip-Hop Meet"
Today In History Wole Soyinka, Nigerian novelist, playwright, poet, and teacher, was born on this date July 13, 1934. His powerful writings enabled him to become the first African writer to win the...
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New History Books @ UW Libraries (“One of the greatest of Tocqueville scholars has...)
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— Kwame Nkrumah, “Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, 1957.
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Today We Honor Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John’s on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and...
James Baldwin
Born in Harlem, New York, Aug. 2, 1924, James Baldwin was an essayist, novelist, playwright, poet, and social justice advocate. Baldwin is regarded as one of the foremost intellectual thinkers of...
Alice Walker - Black Women Art!
Novelist, Essayist, Poet, Activist for Peace, Social justice, Civil rights, Gender Equality and the Environment : b. 1944 The male leaders of Earth appear to have abandoned their very senses ... They...
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Today We Honor Lorraine Hansberry Playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry wrote 'A Raisin in the Sun' and was the first African American playwright and the youngest to win a New York Critics’...
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James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe in St. Augustine, Florida, 1980 v