作者: McKay Claude McKay

Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also pu …

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln’s imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consc …

Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude Mc Kay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-b …

First published in 1928 in the US, now public domain. ‘Why did I want to mix myself up in a white folk’s war? It ain’t ever was any of black folks’ affair’. When Jake Brown joined the World War I eff …