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  2. These 50 Books by Black Authors Are Essential Reads - AOL

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    Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Cole Arthur Riley's newest book is a collection of prayers, letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures ...

  3. Maggie Anderson (activist) - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, Anderson published her first book Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy, [9] which she co-authored with Ted Gregory, [11] a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune. The book describes the struggle she and her family went through with racism in business professions.

  4. W. E. B. Du Bois - Wikipedia

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    The book contained Du Bois's feminist essay, "The Damnation of Women", which was a tribute to the dignity and worth of women, particularly black women. [187] Concerned that textbooks used by African-American children ignored black history and culture, Du Bois created a monthly children's magazine, The Brownies' Book. Initially published in 1920 ...

  5. Soul on Ice (book) - Wikipedia

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    Soul on Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and remains a seminal work in African-American literature. [1][2] The treatises were first printed in the nationally-circulated monthly Ramparts and ...

  6. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.

  7. Amos N. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    According to AALBC.com, "Wilson believed that the vast power differentials between Africans and non-Africans was the major social problem of the 21st century.He believed these power differentials, and not simply racist attitudes, was chiefly responsible for the existence of racism, and the continuing domination of people of African descent across the globe—white people exercise racism ...

  8. Booker T. Washington - Wikipedia

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    Booker T. Washington. Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite. Born into slavery on April 5, 1856, in Hale's Ford, Virginia, Washington was freed ...

  9. List of African-American writers - Wikipedia

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    W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [5] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [6] Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism [7] Henry Dumas (1934–1968) Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 ...

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