Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Toni Cade Bambara was an educator, author, and community activist who was one of the leading voices of the Black feminist movement in the early ’70’s. Ms. Bambara’s works include short stories, anthologies, and screenplays that documented varying levels of the Black experience. Bambara was born Miltona Mirkin Cade on March 25, 1939 in Harlem, […]

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Nella Larsen was a novelist who found fame during the Harlem Renaissance. She was the first African-American woman to be awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.…

Among the many great Black writers in canons of Black literature, the renowned James Baldwin etched his mark in history with his candid and brilliant words on…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Naomi Long Madgett, a former educator and poet laureate for the city of Detroit has given voice to several African-American poets by way of her publishing…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

The late Octavia Butler was a celebrated science fiction author and one of the finest writers in the genre. Butler, who was the first science…

Rickey Smiley Morning Show

Poet, author, and educator Rita Dove is the nation’s first Black United States Poet Laureate, although some historians would give that distinction to Robert Hayden.…

  The Tom Joyner Morning Show talks to Deputy Postmaster General Ron Stroman about the Maya Angelou Forever Stamp. The First-Day-of-Issue stamp dedication ceremony was April…

  Guy Johnson is Dr. Maya Angelou’s only child. He hasn’t had the public profile that his mother did, but his moving eulogy to his mom…

Need a good beach read? Zane’s got you covered. Her eighth anthology “Busy Bodies: Chocolate Flava 4” is out now and as usual, it’s full…