Ten Essential Black Authors to Read During Black History Month— and Every Month A reading list from Camille Dungy Narrowing this down to a Top Ten List was a nearly impossible assignment. So, like the books I share here, I […]
“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.” ~Alex Haley Author Alex Haley was born in 1921 in Ithaca, New York. His father was an agriculture professor […]
~from Katie Haggstrom “The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of my by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.” ~Richard Wright Poet, essayist, and author Richard Wright […]
Zadie Smith is a British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Smith was born Sadie Smith in the north-west London borough of Brent to a Jamaican mother and an English father in 1975. When she was 14, she changed her first […]
Samantha Irby is a comedian, author, and blogger. When asked in an interview when she knew she was a writer, Irby responded, “Probably not until I saw my first book in an actual bookstore. Although even now I kind of feel like […]
A keynote speaker for this year’s Black History Month celebration at CSU is Angela Davis, political activist, academic, and author. “We are very excited to have Angela Davis be our guest speaker,” said Bridgette Johnson, director of the Black/African American Cultural […]
Black History Month, or National African American History Month, is an annual celebration of achievements by Black Americans, and is a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. In 2016, former President Barack Obama described […]
I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story […]
Black History Month is almost over, but we’ve barely brushed the surface of the influence black authors have had on the literary community. Rita Frances Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. Her father, Ray Dove, was the first African-American […]
W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois is remembered for his many roles as a journalist, educator, African-American sociologist, and Civil Rights activist. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois excelled at school, receiving two bachelor’s degrees from Fisk […]
