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365 Black Books Ida B. Wells-Barnett Sunday

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:

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365 Black Books Les Payne Friday

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.

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365 Black Books Gertrude Bustill Mosell Saturday

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.