Activist for African American Literature
As a child, I grew up with no African American literature in the home and if African American literature was in the school library, I do not ever remember reading any of these books. It was not until I was 22 yrs old hanging out in a library that I became acquainted with the likes of Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Langston Hughes to name a few. There still remains a constant need for encouragement to read African American Literature as well as recognition that African American literature and Poetry is valuable and worth reading by children as well as adults.
I speak to those countless late bloomers like myself and those not so late bloomers read African American literature, share African American literature, and talk about African American literature and who knows you could be the catalyst that sparks the next great African American poet or writer.
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