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 […]

Countee Cullen poet, was born in Baltimore, MD, May 30, 1903. His first book of poetry was Color. The Lost Zoo is another of his published works. Cullen was a major contributor to the “Harlem Renaissance.”   TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.

Happy Birthday Wishes go out to Author, Producer, Poet and Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou.  She celebrates 83 years on earth!  Peace and Blessings!

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Born James William Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, on 17 June 1871 — he changed his middle name to Weldon in 1913 — the future teacher, poet, songwriter, and civil rights activist was the son of a headwaiter and the first female black public school teacher in Florida, both of whom had roots in Nassau, Bahamas. […]

Claude McKay , poet, novelist, journalist, and social and political radical, commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Born Festus Claudius McKay, he was the son of relatively prosperous peasants living in upper Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. Around the age of seven McKay went to live with and be educated by his brother, Uriah Theodore, a schoolteacher. […]

Countee P. Cullen 1903 – He was born 30 March , but it has been difficult for scholars to place exactly where he was born, with whom he spent the very earliest years of his childhood, and where he spent them. New York City and Baltimore have been given as birthplaces. 1918 – Cullen was […]

PITTSBURGH — As a scholar, poet and abolitionist, George B. Vashon broke barriers in the 1800s: he was the first black to graduate from Oberlin College, the first black lawyer in New York state and the first black professor at Howard University.