Happy birthday Ta-Nehisi Coates! Born September 30, Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning African American author and journalist. His books include The Water Dancer and The Message. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department at Howard University. Here are additional notable works:
Belated birthday wishes Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.! Born September 16, Henry Louis Gates Jr., popularly known by his childhood nickname “Skip”, is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is well-known for his series, “Finding Your Roots” and authoring several African American history books. Here are just a few of his notable works:
Heavenly birthday wishes James Alan McPherson! Born September 16, 1943, James Alan McPherson an African American essayist and short-story writer. He was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his collection of short stories, Elbow Room, and was included among the first group of artists who received a MacArthur Fellowship, He died in 2016. He authored a few more works:
Happy birthday James McBride! Born September 11, James McBride is an award-winning African American author, musician, and screenwriter. His landmark memoir, The Color of Water, published in 1996, has sold millions of copies and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Considered an American classic, it is read in schools and universities across the United States. His other notable and award-winning novels are:
Happy birthday Mark Whitaker! Born September 7, Mark Whitaker is an African American author, journalist and media executive. He was editor of Newsweek from 1998 until 2006, the first African-American to lead a national news magazine. From 2004 to 2006, Whitaker served as president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. He authored five books, including his memoir: My Long Trip Home.
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:
