Heavenly belated birthday wishes Buchi Emecheta! Born July 21, 1944, Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian writer, whose work includes novels, plays, autobiography, and children’s books. Her novels deal largely with the difficult and unequal role of women in both immigrant and African societies and explore the tension between tradition and modernity. She was best known for her 1974 novel, Second Class Citizen. She died in 2017. Her other notable works are:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Frantz Fanon! Born July 20, 1925, Frantz Omar Fanon was a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique. His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory. He died in 1961. He is well-known for his book The Wretched of the Earth. Other notable works are:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Henry Dumas! Born July 20, 1934, Henry Dumas was an African American writer and poet. He was called “an absolute genius” by Toni Morrison, who as a commissioning editor at Random House published posthumous collections of his poetry and of his short stories, in 1974. He died in 1968. Some of his notable works:
Some of Henry Dumas’ poetry can be read here:
Belated happy birthday Thulani Davis! Born July 19, is an African American playwright, journalist, librettist, novelist, poet, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College and attended graduate school at both the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Here are some of her notable works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Alice Dunbar Nelson! Born July 19, 1875, Alice Dunbar Nelson was an African American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the first generation of African Americans born free in the Southern United States after the end of the American Civil War, she was one of the prominent African Americans involved in the artistic flourishing of the Harlem Renaissance. She died in 1935. Here are some of her notable works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Nelson Mandela! Born July 18, 1918, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid activist, statesman, and revolutionary who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first Black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. In 1993 he and President FW de Klerk jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. He died in 2013. He authored a few books that chronicled his life:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Ida B. Wells-Barnett! Born July 16, 1892, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She died in 1931. Some of her notable works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Mari Evans! Born July 16, 1923 (some sources say 1919), Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist associated with the Black Arts Movement. Evans received grants and awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. Her poetry is known for its lyrical simplicity and the directness of its themes. She died in 2017. Here are a few of her notable works:
Read some of her poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Les Payne! Born July 12, 1941, Les Payne was an African American journalist. He served as an editor and columnist at Newsday and was a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. Posthumously, he was awarded the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Prior to the Malcolm X book, he co-wrote The Life and Death of the SLA in 1976. He died in 2018.
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Willard Motley! Born July 14, 1909, Willard Motley was an African American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken. He died in 1965. He was known for the book Knock on Any Door. He was the author of a few more books:
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