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5 Steps To Unlimited Growth and Reach On Social Media for Authors — Jenn Hanson-dePaula
A step-by-step strategy to help authors easily create an effective plan and finally see results on social media. Author Social Media Strategy, Author Social Media Tips, Book Marketing, Author Marketing
Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era (Crosscurrents in African American History) African Americans, Knowledgeable Books, African American Books, Black Literature, Black Fact, Big Books, Black Knowledge, Black Authors, African Diaspora
Hitler's Black Victims (Crosscurrents in African American History)
Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of European Blacks, Africans and African Americans During the Nazi Era (Crosscurrents in African American History)
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Five Women Writers Tougher Than Hemingway
an author on my tbr list: Octavia Butler --- (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known African-American women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant.
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100 Must-Read African-American Books
100 Must-Read African-American Books http://www.listchallenges.com/100-must-read-african-american-books?ref=share
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Black Children's Books & Authors
Banished vividly recounts the forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americas were driven from their homes and communities by violent racist mobs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fear for their lives, black people left these towns and never returned to reclaim their property. The film features black families determined to go to any length to reconstruct their families past and gain some justice for their ancestors and themselves.
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10 of the Funniest Essayists of Our Time
Nora Ephron - One of the 10 Funniest Essayists of Our Time - Emily Temple - The Atlantic
Barbara Kingsolver- a powerful writer that has filled many long hours for me. The beauty pours out through her language in a way a could never create. Best Selling Novels, Barbara Kingsolver, Beautiful Gray Hair, Hair Starting, Going Gray, Ageless Beauty, Writing Jobs, Freelance Writing, Aging Gracefully
Here & Now
Barbara Kingsolver- a powerful writer that has filled many long hours for me. The beauty pours out through her language in a way a could never create.
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Awesome People Reading
Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
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Jessie R. Fauset - Wikipedia
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an American editor, poet, essayist and novelist
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The Top 10 Black Gay And Lesbian Figures Of All-Time
James Baldwin (1924-1987) - His autobiographical bildungsroman first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain was a pivotal advancement in the forward-thinking civil rights movement. It showcased an introspective personal tabula rasa perspective that questioned racial and sexual issues and the pressures they imposed. The playwright, essayist and novelist essentially paved the way for every post 60′s civil rights era writer on this list.
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The Agenda
margaret atwood, canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, & environmental activist
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- AfterEllen
JUNE JORDAN (1936-2002) was one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African-American writers of her generation. A poet, playwright, speaker, teacher, journalist and essayist Jordan was also known for her fierce commitment to human rights political activism. Her influential voice defined the cutting edge of both American poetry and politics during the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Hannah Horvath Reading List
7 wry female essayists you need to be reading
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Marita Odette Bonner (1899-1971) •
Marita Odette Bonner (Occomy) was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright associated with the Harlem Renaissance Era. She attended Radcliffe University, a gifted pianist, founder of the Boston area chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and author of "Being Young-A Woman- And Colored", a 1925 essay published in The Crisis negro newsmagazine.