African-American Interest

Khaliah Ali's talent as a passionate communicator is limitless. An in-demand speaker on weight-related issues, Khaliah is committed to helping young women everywhere...

Anne C. Bailey is a writer, historian, and a tenured professor of History and Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton (State University of New York). In her work, she combines...

Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., is the founder and president of ASCENT-Leading Multicultural Women to the Top, as well as an associate professor of business administration...

Dr. Bob Brier has worked in Egypt for more than 30 years and is one of the world's foremost authorities on mummies. He is Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus...

Marvelyn Brown, a 26-year-old native Tennessean, learned she was HIV-positive at age 19. Since then, she has moved both live and television audiences across the United...

Wiley Cash's debut New York Times best-seller, A Land More Kind Than Home (William Morrow), is a literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they...

Lois J. Gaston, PhD is a veteran community college educator and administrator, and the grandniece of acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston. From 1992 to 2006, she served...

Paula Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Afro-American Studies at Smith College, where she also serves as editor of the scholarly journal, Meridians:...

Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She graduated with honors from Fisk University...

Robert H. Hirst, Ph.D. is the General Editor and Official Curator of the Mark Twain Project and Papers, housed at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the...

Lucy Anne Hurston, the niece of literary luminary and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, is the author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale...

Uzodinma Iweala is an award winning writer and medical doctor who works on public health issues in Nigeria as an Adviser to the United Nations Secretary General's Envoy...

Laurence Leamer is a celebrated historian, journalist, and bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Leamer has worked in places including the What Cheer, Iowa Patriot-Chronicle,...

Award-winning author Lois Leveen dwells in the spaces where literature and history meet. Her stunning debut novel, The Secrets of Mary Bowser (William Morrow), is based...

Attica Locke is a nationally bestselling and award-winning author and screenwriter, with her focus on issues of race, Hollywood, politics, and motherhood. Locke’s first...

Molly Melching has lived and worked in Senegal, West Africa since 1974 and has dedicated her life to the empowerment of communities at the grassroots level. Highly regarded...

Pamela Newkirk is an award-winning journalist and a professor of journalism at New York University. She is the author of Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga...

Ms. Pat hasn’t lived the life of your typical comedian. Born to a single mother of five, living on welfare in a tough West end neighborhood of Atlanta during the height...