African-American literature

movement, to the collection of poetry titled Blues Narrative (1999) by STERLING PLUMPP, a native of Mississippi (considered to b ...

children’s books, My Dream of Martin Luther King (1998) and If a Bus Could Talk (1999). The lat- ter is the story of the Rosa Pa ...

ously named Chelsea as he attempts and often fails to relate to the white members of his family; his various white friends and l ...

The Heart as Ever Green. In these two volumes of poems, which are autobiographical, Rodgers is less concerned with the overt BLA ...

Bonner, Marita Odette (1899–1971) Playwright, short story writer, and essayist, Marita Bonner was one of the most interesting, v ...

After Bonner married accountant William Almy Occomy, a Rhode Island native and Brown University graduate, she moved to Chicago i ...

on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire in her employer’s summer home. By age 16, “Frosty,” as she was called, had graduated with ...

the historically black college established by the Adventist Church in Huntsville, Alabama, where he had a heavy teaching load. B ...

a “Jew boy” (Ross, 3). On the other hand, Oreo’s brother, Moishe (Jimmie C), has his own secret musical language, “cha-key-key-w ...

doctoral degree; the first was awarded by Morgan State University. Bontemps died on June 4, 1973; his funeral was held in the Fi ...

442  S Saint, Assotto (Yves-François Lubin) (1957–1994) Writer, performer, editor, and AIDS activist Assotto Saint was born Yv ...

grittiness, the anonymity, and the visual and aural noise of this environment find their way into her poems as monumental icons; ...

Nuclear Lovers. A contemporary, friend, and col- league of such writers as Joseph Beam, Donald Woods, MELVIN DIXON, ESSEX HEMPHI ...

business owner, and Shirley Hayes, a federal gov- ernment employee. A 1992 graduate of Harvard Law School, Boykin served two yea ...

Saint James, Synthia (1949– ) Born in Los Angeles, California, self-taught artist Synthia Saint James, who sold her first commis ...

Reid-Pharr, Robert F., ed. Black Gay Man: Essays. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Lawrence Potter Bradley, David (195 ...

wrote, “I believe in Black literature socially com- mitted &/or culturally grounded.” Like his fellow poets AMIRI BARAKA, SO ...

screenplays. Frequently writing on topics pertain- ing to the African-American experience, Bradley has been a consistent contrib ...

soon-to-be-stock characters of the plantation darky, a slave who moved and thought slowly, and the city dandy, a freed black who ...

his nonracial, more traditional themes, as seen in its last stanza: And with these blazing triumphs spoke one voice Whose wistfu ...