Listing the most famous African-American female authors and excluding Toni Morrison (1931-2019) is impossible. She is one of the most celebrated voices in literature. Morrison is best known for ...

Hughes uses the metaphor of rivers to trace the journey of African Americans ... earned him a lasting place in American literature. Why “Incident” Became Famous: The poem’s fame comes ...

Books on the Holocaust, histories of feminism, civil rights and racism, and Maya Angelou's famous autobiography, “I Know Why ...

Image courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature ... He was later referred to as the African Roscius, after the famous Roman actor of the first century BC. He left his native New York ...