Happy birthday Glenn C. Loury! Born September 3, Glenn Cartman Loury is an American economist, academic, and author. He is the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, where he has taught since 2005 also as a professor of economics. His notable works:
Heavenly birthday wishes Romare Bearden! Born September 2, 1911, Romare Bearden is an African American artist, author and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935. He died in 1988.
Happy birthday Nelson George! Born September 1, Nelson George is an established African American author and filmmaker with a passion for telling stories of the black experience in America. George is the author of several ground breaking histories of African American music, including Where Did Our Love Go: the Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound, The Death of Rhythm & Blues, Hip Hop America and The Hippest Trip in America:Soul Train. He authored a few novels including Urban Romance.
Heavenly birthday wishes Eldridge Cleaver! Born August 31, 1935, Leroy Eldridge Cleaver was an African American writer and political activist. He was an early leader of the Black Panther Party, serving as Minister of Information and, while in exile, head of the International Section of the Panthers. He was known for his book, Soul on Ice. Later in life, he became a conservative Republican. He died in 1998. His other notable works:
Heavenly birthday wishes Henrietta Cordelia Ray! Born August 30, 1852, Henrietta Cordelia Ray was an African American poet and teacher. Her parents were notable abolitionists, and had worked for the Underground Railroad in Manhattan. Her ode “Lincoln” was read at the unveiling of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC, in April 1876. She died in 1916.
Belated birthday wishes Roseanne A. Brown! Born August 26, Roseanne A. Brown is a Ghanaian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction. She is best known for her debut novel A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, which became a New York Times best seller, and its sequel, A Psalm of Storms and Silence. By Divine Rage, her debut adult novel, will be published in 2027.
Happy birthday Rita Dove! Born August 28, Rita Frances Dove is an African American poet and essayist. She served as poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1993 to 1995, becoming the first African American appointed to the position after it was established in 1986. In 1987, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her third collection of poetry, Thomas and Beulah. Other notable works:
Heavenly birthday wishes Simeon Booker! Born August 27, 1918, Simeon Saunders Booker Jr. was an African-American journalist whose work appeared in leading news publications for more than 50 years. He was known for his journalistic works during the civil rights movement and for his coverage of the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till. He also was the first African American full-time journalist for the Washington Post. He died in 2017. He authored two works:
Happy birthday Nikky Finney! Born August 26, Nikky Finney is an award winning African American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature. Her collection of poems, Head Off & Split received the National Book Award for Poetry in 2011. Other notable works are:
Happy birthday Clint Smith! Born August 25, Clint Smith is an award winning, New York Times bestselling African American author, poet, and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller, How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times.
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