Category: Black Author

This Professor Didn’t See Enough Positive Reflections Of African Americans In Academic Literature – So She Wrote A Book | Texas Standard

African American Author, Black Author

“The main idea really is that African Americans have a lot of strengths that we’re kind of ignoring and overlooking. We’re kind of focusing on a lot of the negative.” University of Houston Downtown Associate Professor Stacie DeFreitas teaches psychology. She said the field is often focused on problems – but that can all start to feel […]

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Ida B. Wells Honored with Posthumous Pulitzer | EJI, A History of Racial Justice

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The Pulitzer Prizes announced today that a special citation has been awarded to anti-lynching crusader and pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells “[f]or her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.” Ida Bell Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1862. At 18, she […]

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NK Jemisin: ‘It’s easier to get a book set in black Africa published if you’re white’ | The Guardian

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The three-time Hugo award winner is one of the biggest names in modern scifi. She talks about overcoming racism to rewrite the future In 2018, NK Jemisin became the first writer ever to win three consecutive Hugo best novel awards for science fiction and fantasy. Her first award had been in 2016, for her novel The […]

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Between Portland and Park (The Loss of Innocence) | Medium

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By William Spivey, Medium It was 1961 in south Minneapolis. Portland Ave and Park Ave were parallel streets separated by Oakland Ave in the middle. Portland and Park are one-way streets, going opposite directions and were the primary thoroughfares heading north and south respectively. This was prior to the construction of Interstate 35 which became […]

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The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – time traveller on the Underground Railroad | The Guardian

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Magical realism meets real life in the acclaimed journalist’s debut novel about American slaves escaping to the north [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A former national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, Ta-Nehisi Coates is among the most revered and widely read intellectuals in the US. His bleak but scintillating book about race, We Were Eight Years in Power […]

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