This volume includes essays and discussions about the African American authors most commonly assigned in classrooms.

African-American authors have consistently explored the political dimensions of literature and its ability to affect social change. African-American literature

This volume of photos of African-American authors highlights the diversity within African American literature and celebrates the many genres it explores. 59 pho

Learn how to successfully develop diverse programming through reading books by African American authors and how to build strong partnerships among libraries, pu

African-American Writers and Journalists spans nearly three centuries of literary and journalistic history, from a long-unpublished ballad composed in the 1740s