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Literature and Poetry:
Remi Adedeji
(Nigeria)
Ama Ata Aidoo
(Ghana)
Another profile
Changes : A Love Story
by Ama Ata Aidoo, Tuzyline Allan (Designer)
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories
by Ama Ata Aidoo
Maya Angelou
(U.S.A.: MO, CA, AR, NC)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
by Maya Angelou
Augusta Baker
(U.S.A.: NY, SC)
Tonya Bolden
(U.S.A.: NY)
The Book of African-American Women : 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters
by Tonya Bolden
33 Things Every Girl Should Know : Stories, Songs, Poems and Smart Talk by 33 Extraordinary Women
by Tonya Bolden (Editor)
Gwendolyn Brooks
(U.S.A.: KS, IL)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
by George E. Kent
Selected Poems
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Margaret Taylor Burroughs
(U.S.A.: LA, IL)
Another profile
A Shared Heritage : Art by Four African Americans
by William E. Taylor et al.
Akosua Busia
(Ghana)
The Seasons of Beento Blackbird : A Novel
by Akosua Busia
Octavia Butler
(U.S.A.: CA)
Another profile
Kindred (Black Women Writers Series)
by Octavia E. Butler, Robert Crossley (Introduction)
Dawn (Butler, Octavia E. Xenogenesis, Bk. 1.)
by Octavia E. Butler
Lucille Clifton
(U.S.A.: NY, MD)
Another profile
Another profile
Good Woman : Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 (American Poets Continuum Series ; Vol. 14)
by Lucille Clifton
Tsitsi Dangarembga
(Zimbabwe)
Nervous Conditions : A Novel
by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Rita Dove
(U.S.A.: OH, AZ, VA)
Another profile
C.V.
Selected Poems
by Rita Dove
Buchi Emecheta
(Nigeria)
Second-Class Citizen
by Buchi Emecheta
The Slave Girl : A Novel
by Buchi Emecheta
Jessie Redmon Fauset
(U.S.A.: PA, NJ, DC, NY)
Another profile
Several of her poems
Jessie Redmon Fauset : Black American Writer
by Carolyn W. Sylvander
Plum Bun : A Novel Without a Moral
by Jessie Redmon Fauset, Deborah E. McDowell (Introduction)
Lorraine Hansberry
(U.S.A.: IL, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Lorraine Hansberry : Award-Winning Playwright and Civil Rights Activist
by Susan Sinnott
A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry, Robert Nemiroff (Introduction)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
(U.S.A.: MD, OH, PA)
Another profile
Another profile
A Brighter Coming Day; A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
by Frances S. Foster (Editor)
Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph : Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E.W. Harper
by Frances Smith Foster (Editor) et al.
Bessie Head
(South Africa)
Bessie Head Thunder Behind Her Ears : Her Life and Writing
by Gillian Stead Eilersen, Gillian Stead Eilelrsen
When Rain Clouds Gather
by Bessie Head
Zora Neale Hurston
(U.S.A.: FL, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
The Complete Stories
by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston et al.
Jump at De Sun : The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
by A. P. Porter
Noni Jabavu
(South Africa, Great Britain)
The Ochre People
by Noni Jabavu
Farida Karodia
(South Africa, Canada)
Against an African Sky : And Other Stories
by Farida Karodia
A Shattering of Silence
by Farida Karodia
Ellen Kuzwayo
(South Africa)
Harriet Jacobs
(U.S.A.: NC, NY, DC, GA, MA)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Harriet A. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Linda Brent, Walter Teller (Designer)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(Downloadable version)
Jamaica Kincaid
(Antigua, U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
The Autobiography of My Mother
by Jamaica Kincaid
Lucy (Plume Contemporary Fiction)
by Jamaica Kincaid
Nella Larsen
(U.S.A.: IL, AL, NY)
Another profile
Quicksand and Passing
by Nella Larsen, Deborah McDowell (Editor)
Audre Geraldine Lorde
(U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Sister Outsider : Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
Sindiwe Magona
(South Africa, U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
Forced to Grow
by Sindiwe Magona
Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night
by Sindiwe Magona
J. Nozipo Maraire
(Zimbabwe, U.S.A.: CT)
Another profile
Zenzele : A Letter for My Daughter
by J. Nozipo Maraire
Terry McMillan
(U.S.A.: MI, NY, CA)
Interview with Terry McMillan
Another interview
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
by Terry McMillan
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
Gcina Mhlope
(South Africa)
Toni Morrison
(U.S.A.: OH, TX, DC, NY)
Another profile
Anniina's Toni Morrison Page
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Paradise
by Toni Morrison
Micere Githare Mugo
(Kenya, Uganda, Canada, U.S.A.: NY)
Rebeka Njau
(Kenya)
Mpho M'atsepo Nthunya
(Lesotho)
Singing Away the Hunger : The Autobiography of an African Woman
by Mpho `M'Atsepo Nthunya et al.
Martina Awele Nwakoby
(Nigeria)
Flora Nwapa
(Nigeria)
Another biography
Women Are Different
by Flora Nwapa
Never Again
by Flora Nwapa
Asenath Bole Odaga
(Kenya)
Grace Ogot
(Kenya, Uganda, England)
Osonye Tess Onwueme
(Nigeria, U.S.A.: WI)
Tell It to Women : An Epic Drama for Women
by Osonye Tess Onwueme
Menan du Plessis
(South Africa)
Sheila Roberts
(South Africa, U.S.A.: MI)
Charlemae Hill Rollins
(U.S.A.: MS, IL)
Zulu Sofola
(Nigeria)
Efua Theodora Sutherland
(Ghana)
Miriam Tlali
(South Africa)
Muriel at Metropolitan (African Classics)
by Miriam Tlail, Miriam Tlali
Adaora Lily Ulasi
(Nigeria, Great Britain)
Yvonne Vera
(Zimbabwe, Canada)
Without a Name : A Novel
by Yvonne Vera
Alice Walker
(U.S.A.: GA, MS, NY, MA, CA)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Alice Walker
by Tony Gentry et al.
Color Purple
by Alice Walker
By the Light of My Father's Smile
by Alice Walker
Phyllis Wheatley
(Senegal, U.S.A.: MA)
Diversity and Phyllis Wheatley
Phyllis Wheatley
by Victoria Sherrow
Management and Labor Relations:
Jacqueline Hicks Grazette
(U.S.A.: MD, DC)
Peggy W. Harmon
(U.S.A.: VA)
Lucy Parsons
(U.S.A.: TX, IL)
Another biography
Another biography
Mathematics:
Marjorie Lee Browne
(U.S.A.: TN, TX, MI, NC)
Mary Sylvester Deconge
(U.S.A.: LA)
Evelyn Boyd Granville
(U.S.A.: DC, TN, CA, TX)
Another profile
Fern Y. Hunt
(U.S.A.: NY, DC, MD)
Katherine Okikiolu
(England, U.S.A.: CA, NJ)
Bonita V. Saunders
(U.S.A.: VA, MD)
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
(Cuba, U.S.A.: TX, DC)
Another profile
Grace Alele Williams
(Nigeria)
Meteorology:
June Bacon-Bercey
(U.S.A.: MD)
Military and Warfare:
Amina Sarauniya Zazzua
(Nigeria)
Another profile
Queen Candace
(Ethiopia)
The Candace : Warrior Queens of the Kingdom of Kush
by Dawn E. Reno
Queen Dahia Al-Kahina
(Carthage and Mauritania)
Nehanda
(Zimbabwe)
Nzingha
(Matamba West Africa)
Nzinga (African Biographical Series)
by Ramla Bandele
Queen Tiye
(Ancient Egypt)
Another profile
Yaa Asantewaa
(Asante, modern Ghana)
Another profile
Music:
Aaliyah (Haughton)
(U.S.A.: NY, MI)
Marian Anderson
(U.S.A.: PA, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Online NewsHour profile
Marian Anderson
by Anne Tedards, Matina S. Horner (Designer)
What I Had Was Singing : The Story of Marian Anderson
by Jeri Ferris
Patti Austin
(U.S.A.: CA)
Another profile
pattiaustin.com site
Erykah Badu
(U.S.A.: TX)
Pearl Bailey
(U.S.A.: VA, DC, PA, NY)
Another profile
Film Credits
Pearl Bailey : With a Song in Her Heart
by Keith Brandt, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
LaVern Baker
(U.S.A.: IL, NY)
Mary J. Blige
(U.S.A.: NY, GA)
Brandy (Brandy Norwood)
(U.S.A.: MS, CA)
Another profile
Toni Braxton
(U.S.A.: MD, CA)
Grace Bumbry
(U.S.A.: MO)
Interview with Grace Bumbry
Mary Cardwell Dawson
(U.S.A.: NC, PA)
Missy Elliott
(U.S.A.: VA)
Another profile
Missy Elliott site
Ella Fitzgerald
(U.S.A.: VA, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Ella's gone
Ella Fitzgerald : A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz
by Stuart Nicholson
Ella Fitzgerald
by Bud Kliment et al.
Roberta Flack
(U.S.A.: NC, VA, DC)
Another profile
Filmography
Aretha Franklin
(U.S.A.: TN, MI)
Another profile
Another profile
Aretha Franklin : Motown Superstar
by Silvia Anne Sheafer
Aretha Franklin, Lady Soul
by Leslie Gourse, David Shirley
Lauryn Hill
(U.S.A.: NJ)
Another profile
Lauryn Hill; She's Got That Thing
by Chris Nickson
Billie Holiday
(U.S.A.: PA, MD, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Billie Holiday
by Bud Kliment, Bud Klimet
Lady Sings the Blues/With a Revised Discography
by Billie Holiday et al.
Shirley Horn
(U.S.A.: DC, NY)
Lena Horne
(U.S.A.: NY, PA)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Lena Horne : Entertainer
by Leslie Palmer et al.
Lena Horne
by Brett Howard
Whitney Houston
(U.S.A.: NJ)
Another profile
Whitney Houston Online
Whitney Houston
by Ted Cox
Good Girl, Bad Girl : An Insiders Biography of Whitney Houston
by Kevin Ammons, Nancy Bacon (Contributor)
Janet Jackson
(U.S.A.: IN)
Another profile
The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson
by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
Eva Jessye
(U.S.A.: KS, NY)
Grace Jones
(Jamaica, U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Filmography
Chaka Khan
(U.S.A.: IL)
Another profile
Eartha Mae Kitt
(U.S.A.: SC, NY)
Another profile
Patti LaBelle
(U.S.A.: PA)
Another profile
The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson
by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
Monica
(U.S.A.: GA)
Queen Latifah
(U.S.A.: NJ)
Another profile
Ladies First : Revelations from a Strong Woman
by Queen Latifah, Karen Hunter, Latifah
"Ma" Raney
(U.S.A.: GA)
Another profile
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
by Angela Y. Davis
Della Reese
(U.S.A.: MI, CA)
Another profile
Angels Along the Way : My Life With Help from Above
by Della Reese et al.
Diana Ross
(U.S.A.: MI, NY)
Another profile
DianaRoss & the Supremes Photo Gallery
Diana Ross : Entertainer
by John Wyeth et al.
The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson
by David Nathan, Luther Vandross (Foreword)
Sade
(Nigeria, Great Britain)
Another profile
The Best of Sade
Nina Simone
(U.S.A.: NC, NY, PA)
Another profile
Official Website
I Put a Spell on You : The Autobiography of Nina Simone
by Nina Simone, Stephen Cleary
The Soulful Divas: Personal Portraits of over a dozen divine divas from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, & Diana Ross, to Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, & Janet Jackson
by David Nathan
Bessie Smith
(U.S.A.: TN, NY, PA)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Bessie Smith Songbook
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
by Angela Y. Davis
Tina Turner
(U.S.A.: TN, MO, CA)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
I, Tina : My Life Story
by Tina Turner, Kurt Loder
Tina Turner
by Judy L. Hasday
Sarah Vaughan
(U.S.A.: NJ)
Another profile
Another profile
Sassy : The Life of Sarah Vaughan
by Leslie Gourse
Dinah Washington
(U.S.A.: AL, IL)
Another profile
Another profile
Ethel Waters
(U.S.A.: PA, NY)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
His Eye Is on the Sparrow : An Autobiography
by Ethel Waters et al.
Edith Goodall Wilson
(U.S.A.: KY)
Edith Wilson and her Jazz Hounds
(Sound clips)
He May Be Your Man...But He Comes To See Me...
Edith Wilson
Complete Recorded Works...Vol. 2 (1924-31)
Edith & Lena Wilson
Philanthropy:
Pearl Bailey
(U.S.A.: VA, DC, PA, NY)
Another profile
Film Credits
Pearl Bailey : With a Song in Her Heart
by Keith Brandt, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
Bridget "Biddy" Mason
(U.S.A.: MS, CA)
Open Hands, Open Heart: The Story of Biddy Mason
by Deidre D. Robinson, Albert T. Cooper III (Illustrator)
Physics:
Shirley Ann Jackson
(U.S.A.: DC, IL, NJ)
Another profile
Psychology:
Patricia S. Cowings
(U.S.A.: CA)
Religion:
Barbara Harris
(U.S.A.: PA)
Another profile
Marie Laveau
(U.S.A.: LA)
A Plastic Rose for Marie Laveau
By Michael Ventura
Marie Laveau photos
Mysterious Marie Laveau Voodoo Queen and Folk Tales Along the Mississippi
by Raymond J. Martinez
Sister Gertrude Morgan
(U.S.A.: AL)
Pauli Murray
(U.S.A.: MD, NY, NC)
Another profile
Pauli Murray : The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet
by Pauli Murray
Proud Shoes : The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series)
by Pauli Murray
Social Service/Activism:
Maryam Ibrahim Babangida
(Nigeria)
Ella Baker
(U.S.A.: VA, NY, GA)
Another profile
Ella Baker: Freedom Bound
by Joanne Grant
Joyce Banda
(Malawi)
Joyce Baskins
(U.S.A.: PA)
Daisy Gatson Bates
(U.S.A.: AR)
The Daisy Bates Papers
Lillian Kennedy Beam
(U.S.A.: OH, CA)
Clara Brown
(U.S.A.: VA, MO, CO)
Aunt Clara Brown
by Linda Lowery, Janice Lee Porter (Illustrator)
Selena Sloan Butler
(U.S.A.: GA)
Septima Poinsette Clark
(U.S.A.: SC)
Celina Cossa
(Mozambique)
Ellen Smith Craft
(U.S.A.: GA; Great Britain)
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom : The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
by William Craft, Ellen Craft, R. J. M. Blackett
Two Tickets to Freedom : The True Story of Ellen and William Craft, Fugitive Slaves
by Florence B. Freedman, Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator)
Angela Davis
(U.S.A.: AL, CA)
Another profile
Another profile
1970 Interview with Angela Davis
Angela Davis : An Autobiography
by Angela Yvonne Davis
Marian Wright Edelman
(U.S.A.: SC, MS, DC)
Another profile
Another profile
"Standing Up For The World's Children: Leave No Child Behind"
(Gifts of Speech)
The Measure of Our Success : A Letter to My Children and Yours
by Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman : The Making of a Crusader
by Beatrice Siegel
Eka Esu-Williams
(Nigeria)
Bertha Gilkey
(U.S.A.: IL, MO)
Clara Hale
(U.S.A.: NY)
Another profile
Clara Hale : Mother to Those Who Needed One (Everyone Contributes)
by Bob Italia, Rosie Wallner (Editor)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
(U.S.A.: MD, OH, PA)
Another profile
Another profile
A Brighter Coming Day; A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
by Frances S. Foster (Editor)
Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph : Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E.W. Harper
by Frances Smith Foster (Editor) et al.
Barbara Harris
(U.S.A.: PA)
Another profile
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley
(U.S.A.: VA, NC, MO, MD, DC)
Harriet Jacobs
(U.S.A.: NC, NY, DC, GA, MA)
Another profile
Another profile
Another profile
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Harriet A. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Linda Brent, Walter Teller (Designer)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
(Downloadable version)
Wangari Muta Maathai
(Kenya)
Graça Simbine Machel
(Mozambique)
Bridget "Biddy" Mason
(U.S.A.: MS, CA)
Open Hands, Open Heart: The Story of Biddy Mason
by Deidre D. Robinson, Albert T. Cooper III (Illustrator)
Joyce F. Mungherera
(Uganda)
Esther Afua Ocloo
(Ghana)
Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
(Nigeria, U.S.A.)
Re-Creating Ourselves : African Women & Critical Transformations
Chief Bisi Ogunleye
(Nigeria)
Lucy Parsons
(U.S.A.: TX, IL)
Another biography
Another biography
Mamphela Ramphele
(Zaire)
Installation photos
Interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Rachel Robinson
(U.S.A.: NY)
Jackie Robinson : An Intimate Portrait
by Rachel Robinson et al.
Josephine Ruffin
(U.S.A.: MA)
Mary Jane Seacole
(Jamaica)
Mary Burnette Talbert
(U.S.A.: OH, AR, NY)
Faye Wattleton
(U.S.A.: MO, OH, IL)
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