Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. The fourth of six siblings born to Sylvia Delacerna, Copeland’s family moved several times before eventually settling in the coastal community of San […]
(Baltimore, MD)—Maryland Humanities is pleased to announce the selection of Purple Hibiscus by award-winning Nigerian author and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as the 2017 One Maryland One Book. The novel was chosen […]
Bro. Rion is the author of Insurrections, a PEN America Award Finalist for Debut Fiction. His debut book has been exclaimed as “…energetic and musical—fully inhabiting a diverse array of storytelling styles.” From the first […]
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. Her father was a janitor who had hoped to become a doctor; her mother was a schoolteacher and classically trained pianist. They were […]
Gwendolyn Brooks is recognized as “one of the most highly regarded, highly influential” poets of the 20th-century. She was both the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize and the first Black woman to […]
2017 National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium “Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration” Saturday, March 25, 2017; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Registration opens at 10 a.m. (program begins at 11 a.m.) Medgar Evers College, […]
Fannie Lou Townshend (1917-1977) was born into poverty, the youngest of 20 children, to sharecroppers Lou Ella and Jim Townshend in Montgomery County, Mississippi. At age six she joined her family in the cotton fields. […]
Maggie Lena Walker (1864–1934), was born free as Maggie Lena Draper on July 15, 1864, in Richmond Virginia. Her mother, Elizabeth Draper, was a former slave and the assistant cook for Elizabeth Van Lew, an abolitionist on […]
Penguin Random House has won the auction for books from former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama. PRH CEO Markus Dohle announced Tuesday evening that the company had acquired world publication rights […]
Eugene Jacques Bullard (1895 – 1961) was born October 9, 1895, in Columbus, GA as the seventh out of ten total children born to William Octave Bullard and Josephine “Yokalee” Thomas. Eugene’s father was originally […]
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