Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison!
Tomorrow is Toni Morrison Day when we will celebrate the birth of the literary titan and Nobel Laureate. Of course we couldn’t let this month pass without acknowledging one of our favorite Bookish Black History …
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Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!
Today is not only the first day of Black History Month, it is Langston Hughes’ birthday. Born James Mercer Langston Hughes in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri, Hughes eventually became one of America’s greatest and most …
Happy Birthday, Gloria Naylor!
Born January 25, 1950, today would be Gloria Naylor’s 71st birthday. Naylor was born in New York City to sharecroppers who escaped the segregated South and migrated north to Harlem in search of better opportunities. …