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Black History Month - February: International Black History

Black history teaching - classroom - education resources

Prominent Voices

Authors

Chinua Achebe
Nigerian Novelist
Maya Angelou
American Poet
Toni Morrison
American Novelist
Richard Wright
African-American Author
Esi Edugyan
Ghanaian Canadian Novelist
Langston Hughes
African-American writer - American Renaissance
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Zanzibar author - Nobel Prize Winner
Jason Reynolds
American Author - National Children's Author 2020-21
Kwame Alexander
American Author
Amanda Gorman
American Poet - "The Hill We Climb"

Celebrity Figures

Trevor Noah
Jesse Owens
Dominant athlete of the 1936 Berlin Olympics