She began writing brief poetry at the age of nine. ... Throughout her life, Maya kept a journal of her life experiences and began taking those thoughts, writing a series of autobiographies. ... The fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, focuses on her son Guy, the civil rights movement, marriage, and her own writing. ... Among all these honors, Maya won the Woman of the Year Award in Communications of the Ladies Home Journal. ... I can go on writing about Maya and her life experiences for pages on end. ...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Later on in her writing career, her areas of writing spread to politics and children's books, allowing a greater audience to relate to what she had to say. ... The Ladies" Home Journal magazine gave her an award at age thirty, "some black leaders said Giovanni should not have accepted an award from a mainly white organization. ... Her writing hit and influenced the lives of many people. ... As times changed, Nikki changed in her areas of writing. ... Her life as a singly mother also affected her writing. ...

• Word Count: 1670
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade and was selected as Class Poet. ... Through these experiences, a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as The Weary Blues were penned. ... At this time, Hughes's work was frequently published and his writing flourished. ... Woodson, editor of the Journal of Negro Life and History and founder of Black History Week in 1926. ... In the forty-one years between his first book in 1926 and his death in 1967, he devoted his life to writing and lecturing. ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While there he nurtured his writing skills by having a large involvement in the school newspaper. ... He kept journal to keep track of his thoughts and practice his writing skills. ... Baraka commented on the books in a interview with Kimberly Benston, published in Boundary 2: "I was really writing defensively. ... And saw the revolution that was going down there and the many intellectuals who where making stride trough their writing to show their feelings about "Cuba Libre." ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black litera...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social growing of writing about race and the African American's place in American life during the early 1920s and 1930s. ... Magazines as The Crisis, a monthly journal of the NAACP, and Opportunity, an official publication of the Urban League, employed Harlem Renaissance writers on their editorial staff; published poetry and short stories by black writers; and promoted African American literature through articles, reviews, and annual literary prizes. ... In the last analysis, the Harlem Renaissance ended when most of those ...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While acquiring his Doctorate, Randall was an editor for the Yale Law Journal, possibly where he took an interest in writing. ... This allows Kennedy to set up many of the appeals that follow in the writing. ...

• Word Count: 1498
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While attending high school, DuBois helped out his mother by working odd jobs after school such as mowing lawns, selling newspapers and tea, and writing for the Springfield Republican. DuBois had an almost perfect attendance record at Great Barrington High School, where he excelled academically, out doing his white counterparts in reading, writing, spelling, grammar, and history (Smith & Giovanni; 197). ... DuBois used The Crisis as a journal to expose his views on social issues that confronted the black communities, such as the presidential election, lynching, and World War I. ...

• Word Count: 1675
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Claire Oberon Garcia of the International Journal of Francophone Studies stated, "The presence of this middle-aged black woman in this venerable public arena was itself a living challenge or negation of contemporary constructions of race and gender in that it instantiated a black woman's determination to inscribe her own historical agency.... According to Ravenscroft, "Where once modernism was celebrated for carrying the past forward, it now tends to be seen as writing against the narratives of Western history; where once modernism upheld the value of traditions, now it critique...

• Word Count: 1517
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School