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Black Authors

Happy Black History is Everyday

Toni Morrison 1931-2019

James Baldwin 1924-1987

Octavia E Butler 1947-2006

Langston Hughes 1901-1967

Maya Angelou 1928-2014

Ralph Ellison 1914-1994

Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960

W.E.B Du Bois 1868-1963

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THAT'S SO RAVEN (2003-2007) S3E10 'True Colors'

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Niecy Nash

#dadamsphotos

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Phylicia Rashad at age 40 🤍 (1987)

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Polaroids of Tupac & Janet Jackson taken on the set of Poetic Justice , 1992

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Da Brat

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Her rep Deborah R. Champagne says Angie had left a performance in Montgomery, Alabama when an accident occurred. She is survived by her two children and grandchildren. Rest in peace queen 

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Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.

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Black Country Singers

Charlie Pride 1934-2020

Linda Martell 1941- living

Darius Rucker 1966-living

Lesley Riddle 1905-1980

Deford Bailey 1899-1982

Cleve Francis 1945 -living

The Pointer Sisters 1969

Frankie Staton -living

Rest In Peace June Pointer, Anita Pointer, Bonnie Pointer

Country Music Is BLACK CULTURE

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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Tuskegee Airmen Appreciation

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My entire childhood right here. Ella Fitzgerald Sammy Davis, Jr. Gregory Hines Quincy Jones Michael Jackson Nell Carter Debbie Allen Whitney Houston Dionne Warwick Eddie Murphy Lola Falana Jesse Jackson Anita Baker

Diahann Carroll

Stevie Wonder

Magic Johnson

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“Mary Wallace was the first woman bus driver with the Chicago Transit Authority in 1974. Her job applications were rejected for three years, but her persistence paid off. She was eventually hired under an affirmative action program. Wallace became one of the city’s most popular drivers over her thirty-three year career.”

Happy Black History Month!

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This song just feels like a whole celebration of blackness. The words are so powerful and so deep. It’s art.

Tank and The Bangas - Black Folk ft Alex Isley & Masego

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You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

–Chick Corea, American Jazz Pianist & Composer

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in honor of black history month 2025, i’ve put together a list of books written by black sapphic authors for you to read in the month of february

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

please feel free to add onto this list in the rbs or comments! happy black history month