Celebrating Black History Month with 5 Great Black Writers

Black culture have inspired industries such as fashion, music, healthcare, beauty, cooking, theater, engineering, and more. God must have used some unique spices when he created black folks. Do you notice how some Moms and Grandmoms never know the exact measurements when they give you their recipes? It seems as if God used that same method when he created black folks. He eyeballed the measurements until it looked right. That's how they developed flavor!

Black writers have given the world a glimpse of their artistic flavor and culture through various works. Writers like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Langston Hughes are revered for their great works that have paved the way for modern day writers.

I’d like to celebrate some great young black writers and their accolades as Black History Month comes to a close.

5 Great Black Writers

Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Award winning Author and Journalist from Baltimore, Maryland

  • Graduate of Howard University

  • Awards: National Book Award, Audie Award for Literary Fiction, Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and more

  • Books: Between the World and Me, The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years In Power, Black Panther comic book series, and The Water Dancer

Rapsody

  • Grammy nominated Emcee

  • Lyrical genius & graduate of North Carolina State University

  • College courses have been created to examine her album EVE at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill & Ohio State University

  • Albums: Beauty and the Beast, She Got Game, Crown, Laila’s Wisdom, EVE, and more

Jason Reynolds

  • New York best selling Author and Poet

  • Graduate of the University of Maryland

  • Awards: NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Youth, John Newberry Medal, Audie Award, and more

  • Books: Sunny, Lu, Ghost, Stamped, All American Boys, and more

Angie Thomas

  • YA award winning Author from Jackson, Mississippi

  • Graduate of Belhaven University

  • Awards: Audie Award for Young Adult, Michael L. Printz Award, Carnegie Medal, Coretta Scott King Book Award, and more

  • Books: The Hate U Give, On The Come Up, Find Your Voice, and Concrete Rose

Terrance Hayes

  • Award winning Poet, Author, and Professor from Columbia, South Carolina

  • Graduate of Coker College and the University of Pittsburgh

  • Awards: NAACP Image Award for Poetry, National Book Award, Whiting Writers Award, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and more.

  • Books: Lighthead, How to be Drawn, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, Wind in a Box, Hip Logic, and more

Cheers to Black History Month!

Smile,

Bee

Bee Daniel