Black Women In America

Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. 

Krista Franklin is an African American poet and visual artist, whose main artistic focus is afro surrealism collage. 

In 1995 interview with science-fiction writers Mark Dery first suggested the term afrofuturism. 

“Speculative fiction that treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of 20th century technoculture — and, more generally, African-American signification that appropriates images of technology and a prosthetically enhanced future”.   

Sun Ra in John Coney’s “Space Is the Place” (1974) 

“Towards A Walk In the Sun” by Robert Pruitt  

“DMC” by Darryl McDaniels  

In the mid-1970s, Oprah Winfrey became the first black woman to anchor a nightly news program in Nashville at the age of 19 while in college. 

Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

 Betye Saar