Happy birthday Troy Duster! Born July 11, Troy Duster is an African American sociologist, a 2005 President of the American Sociological Association and the grandson of Ida B. Wells. authored several highly influential books exploring the sociology of law, human genetics, and racial inequality. His key works are:
Happy birthday Nic Stone! Born July 10, Andrea Nicole Livingstone, known as Nic Stone, is a New York Times best selling African American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her middle grade debut, Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six languages. Some of her best selling works are:
Heavenly birthday wishes June Jordan! Born July 9, 1936, June Millicent Jordan was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation. A prolific writer, June Jordan died in 2002. Here are just a few of her works:
Read some of her poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Eric Jerome Dickey! Born July 7, 1961, Eric Jerome Dickey was an African American author. He wrote several crime novels involving grifters, ex-cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to the West Indies, each having an international cast of characters. He died in 2021. Some of his notable works are:
Heavenly birthday wishes Margaret Walker! Born July 7, 1915, Margaret Walker was an African American poet and author She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. She is known for her book, Jubilee and her poem, For My People. She died in 1998. Here are a few of her notable works:
You can read some of her poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Gertrude Bustill Mosell! Born July 3, 1855, Gertrude Bustill Mosell was an African American journalist, author, teacher, and activist. She served as the women’s editor of The New York Age from 1885 to 1889, and of the Indianapolis World from 1891 to 1892. Her foundational work, The Works of the Afro-American Woman in 1894, looked into the future to project women’s roles in the twentieth century, particularly in suffrage, journalism and higher education. She died in 1948.
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Ed Bullins! Born July 2, 1935, Ed Bullins is an African American award winning playwright and author who emerged as one of the leading and most prolific dramatists of Black Theatre in the 1960s. Sharing the tenets of the Black Arts movement, Bullins’s naturalistic plays incorporated elements of Black nationalism, “street” lyricism, and interracial tension. He died in 2021. Here are a few of his works:
Belated birthday wishes Thomas Sowell! Born June 30, Thomas Sowell is an African American American economist, economic historian, and social theorist. With widely published commentary and books—and as a guest on TV and radio—he is a well-known voice in the American conservative movement as a prominent black conservative. Here are just a few of his works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Paul Laurence Dunbar! Born June 27, 1872, Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child. He died in 1906.
Read some of his poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Lucille Clifton! Born June 27, 1936, Lucille Clifton was a poet, author, and educator. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. She died in 2010.
