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 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 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 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 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:
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:
Belated birthday wishes James Howard Meredith! Born June 25, 1933, James Howard Meredith is an African American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government. He wrote a memoir about his experience.
Belated birthday wishes W. Ralph Eubanks! Born June 25, Warren Ralph Eubanks Jr. is an African American author, essayist, journalist, professor, and public speaker. His work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. From 1995 until May 2013 he was the Director of Publishing of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Here are just a few of his notable works, including his memoir.
Belated happy birthday Danyel Smith! Born June 23, Danyel Smith is an African American magazine editor, journalist, and novelist. Smith is the former and first African-American editor of Billboard and Vibe magazine, respectively. She is author of two novels and a history of African-American women in pop music. Here are her works:
The 2026 Mackinac Policy Conference theme was “A Quest for Common Ground.” I found the discussions fascinating and interesting on the various approaches to achieve a common ground among business, education, and government. After listening to these sessions, I then researched and found two books on the subject with a very different approach.
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