Encouraged by her mother, Nia Mya Reese penned "How To Deal With and Care For Your Annoying Little Brother."
Via Foxbaltimore.com E.L Konigsburg, an award winning, children’s book author and illustrator has died at the age of 83. Her son states that his mother died on Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. She suffered a bad stroke the week before she passed away. Read Here For More Details. CAPTURED: First Images Of […]
Admired poet and author Maya Angelou celebrates 85 candles today, and her influence continues to impact others around the nation. She has produced six autobiographies,five books of essays, and several plays and volumes of poetry. Angelou has written about her past dealing with sexual abuse as a prostitute, as well as being a Civil Rights Movement coordinator […]
Angela Davis, author, activist, and professor was born in Birmingham, AL, on this date in 1944. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Angela Davis is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. She was active […]
Lorraine Hansberry, dramatist and author, died in New York City on this date January 12,1965. Her play, A Raisin in the Sun, was the first play written by a Black woman to be performed on Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago, the daughter of a prominent real-estate broker, Carl Hansberry, and the niece of […]
Samuel Ringgold Ward, was one of the most prominent of the anti-slavery speakers in the nation by the 1850s. Born into slavery in Maryland, he escaped with his mother to New Jersey. In 1834 when he was 17 Ward was attacked by a pro-slavery mob in New York and […]
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Author Sapphire speaks on her book Push and how domestic violence, as portrayed in the book is relevant now in the Black Community. Basheer Jones and the Cleveland Public Library (CPL) welcome Sapphire to Cleveland this passed weekend. Jones and CPL was honored to host Sapphire, a performance poet and […]
