BHM: Alice Walker

2014-03-15T19:14:40-04:00

You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down is Alice Walker's second collection of stories. It was published seven years after Walker published "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" in Ms Magazine. (Walker, with Charlotte D. Hunt, had finally found Hurston's unmarked grave and marked it with a modest

BHM: Alice Walker2014-03-15T19:14:40-04:00

BHM: Virginia Hamilton and Patricia McKissack

2021-02-01T11:04:16-05:00

Each of these books is illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. Do you know their work? (They're the husband-and-wife team who have claimed awards ranging from the Caldecott to the Hugo to the Coretta Scott King Honor.) This is remarkable not only for the quality of the work but because

BHM: Virginia Hamilton and Patricia McKissack2021-02-01T11:04:16-05:00

BHM: Edward P. Jones

2014-03-15T19:12:38-04:00

After I finished reading the fourteenth story in All Aunt Hagar's Children, I thought how about steadily impressed I'd been with the crafting of these stories. Each of them seemed to possess that kind of "I could tell you stories all day" attitude, like the stories were just a collection of

BHM: Edward P. Jones2014-03-15T19:12:38-04:00

BHM: Edwidge Danticat

2014-03-15T19:11:15-04:00

"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I’ve always thought it meant to be a writer." So says Edwidge Danticat, in the early pages of the work inspired by Albert Camus' essay and, also, inspired by countless tales of courageous reading and writing and living.

BHM: Edwidge Danticat2014-03-15T19:11:15-04:00

BHM: The Lairds (Roland and Taneshia Nash)

2014-03-15T19:09:44-04:00

In the mid-90s, the Lairds were used to publishing 36-page comic books; they were all about entertainment, not about a one-stop volume of African American history. It was quite a challenge for Roland and Taneshia Nash Laird to move from that kind of production, to a full-length book, and

BHM: The Lairds (Roland and Taneshia Nash)2014-03-15T19:09:44-04:00
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