** Maya Angelou, African-American poet and novelist

* William Gardner Smith ( 1927 – 1974 ), African-American novelist

* 1853, William Wells Brown, known as the first African-American novelist, published his Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, a novel based on the Jefferson-Hemings story.

* Ann Petry — African-American novelist, journalist and biographer.

African-American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer.

* Richard Wright ( author ) ( 1908 – 1960 ), African-American novelist, writer, poet, essayist

Frank Garvin Yerby ( – ) was an African-American historical novelist.

* Frank Yerby ( 1916 – 1991 ), African-American novelist

Du Bois and African-American novelist Richard Wright, then living in Paris.

* Langston Hughes ( 1902 – 1967 ), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist

As her supervisor, Kennedy traveled throughout Florida with African-American novelist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston, visiting turpentine camps near Cross City and the Clara White Mission soup kitchen in Jacksonville.

Albert L. Murray ( born May 12, 1916 in Nokomis, Mobile County, Alabama ) is an African-American literary and jazz critic, novelist and biographer.

Harriet E. Wilson ( March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900 ) is considered the first female African-American novelist, as well as the first African American of any gender to publish a novel on the North American continent.

* Owen Dodson, an African-American poet, novelist, and playwright

KABC is notable for having a diverse set of talk show hosts including African-American civil rights attorney Leo Terrell, novelist John Batchelor, Los Angeles Zagat Survey editor Merrill Shindler and automotive expert Leon Kaplan who in January, 2010, celebrated thirty years of broadcasting on KABC.

William Wells Brown ( November 6, 1814 – November 6, 1884 ) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian.

Ntozake Shange: 42-45 year old African-American playwright, poet, novelist.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ( 1859 – August 13, 1930 ) was a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.

Rudolph Fisher ( May 9, 1897 Washington, DC-December 26, 1934 ) was an African-American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator.

** Ann Nixon Cooper, American activist for African-American people's rights ( d. 2009 )

* Mary Ann Fisher African-American Jazz singer of, the Ray Charles group, The Raelettes

* March 7-Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American writer

* February 11-Harriet Ann Jacobs, African-American abolitiionist and memoirist ( died 1897 )

Harriet Ann Jacobs ( February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897 ) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.

He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in September 1832 by Ezekiel Roberts, and he married Mary Ann Adams, another African-American.

* In the John Waters film Hairspray, itself about racism, Penny Pingleton ( Leslie Ann Powers ) is seen reading this book while standing in line next to her African-American boyfriend.

Born Harriet E. " Hattie " Adams in Milford, New Hampshire, she was the mixed-race daughter of Margaret Ann ( or Adams ) Smith, a washerwoman of Irish ancestry, and Joshua Green, an African-American " hooper of barrels.

Shortly before her death in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she established the Eva Jessye African-American Music Collection at the University of Michigan.

Miss Ann is an expression used inside the African-American community, to refer to a white woman ( or sometimes a black woman ) who is arrogant and condescending in her attitude.

Joseph Elmer Yoakum ( February 22, 1889 – December 25, 1972 ) was a self-taught landscape artist of African-American and Native American descent, who drew landscapes in a highly individual style.

He drew upon continuing support from organized labor and the African-American and Jewish communities, but remained unpopular with college students because of his association with the Vietnam War, even though he had altered his position in the years since his 1968 defeat.

Artists ' associations such as Les Nabis and the Incoherents were formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, and African-American expatriates such as Langston Hughes worked in Montmartre and drew some of their inspiration from the area.

The degree to which blackface performance drew on authentic African-American culture and traditions is controversial.

Uncle Tom's Cabin drew criticism from abolitionists and African-American authors for the passive martyrdom of Uncle Tom and endorsement of colonization as the solution to slavery.

The university drew national attention in 1966 when it recruited Perry Wallace, the first African-American athlete in the Southeastern Conference.

His victory two years later drew national attention, as he was the first African-American mayor of one of the ten biggest cities in the United States.

In an influential early article about shanties, New York journalist William L. Alden drew a comparison between shanties and both authentic African-American songs and the quasi-African-American minstrel songs:

Known as the " Black Woodstock ," Wattstax was hosted by Reverend Jesse Jackson and drew a crowd of over 100, 000 people, most of them African-American.

Aided by overwhelming support from African-American voters on the same date as the presidential candidacy of Barack H. Obama drew them to the polls in unprecedented numbers, Jefferson won the Democratic nomination in the congressional party primary, which barred the district's 41, 000 Republicans and many of its 84, 000 other voters not registered as Democrats.

The mainstream media's coverage drew heated criticism from the African-American press and leaders for its treatment of the teenager.

The mainstream media's coverage drew heated criticism from the African-American press and leaders for its treatment of the teenager.

This drew attention away from the notion of African-American women being sexual figures.

Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African-American in American society.