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Sherley Anne Williams (August 25, 1944 – July 6, 1999) was an American poet, novelist, professor, vocalist, jazz poet, playwright and social critic. Many of her works tell stories about her life in the African-American community.
A small library kiosk opened in the area in 1976, and a somewhat larger facility opened in 1984, [2] which was eventually replaced in 2009 by a new $878,000 library facility. [ 3 ] The notably small 4,900-square-foot library is located in a leased space in the Shops at Parkland strip mall .
Dessa Rose was written as a response to William Styron's 1968 novel The Confessions of Nat Turner. The white man assuming the voice of an African-American man enraged the black community. In Dessa Rose, the author Sherley Anne Williams, a black woman, takes the voice of a white woman.
The library was damaged by arson in January 1982 and remained closed for repairs until February 1983. [7] Neighborhood support helped it survive an effort by city officials to close it in the 1980s. [8] Anthony A. Williams, the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia, kicked off his 1998 campaign at a rally on the library's front lawn. [9]
The Nat D. Williams honorary street sign is seen during the street naming ceremony outside of Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, October 27, 2023.
The Israel Bethel Church, founded in 1820 in Washington, D.C., was the first independent African American church with the city's first African American pastor, Rev. David Smith. [3] It was organized because the white Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Church required black parishioners to sit in the galleries. [ 4 ]
Barnes & Noble opened a new bookstore at 6090 Garners Ferry Road in Columbia on March 6, 2024.
Youngest person and first Black American to be the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. [4] [5] Sharon Draper (born 1948) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP [6] His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk. [7]