Black posters of thecoli, name 4 contemporary black writers

[African Peasant]

Without googling. Off top.

It can be writers of essays or novels. It does not matter.

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Coates
Eddie Glaude
Melissa Harris perry
Jessamyn Ward

 

[Mastamimd]

Ralph Ellison
Toni Morrison
Octavia Butler
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Had to Google the last one because I couldn't spell it

 

[BBG]

nikka I can't name 5 contemporary authors period regardless of race. fukk I gotta read fo

 

[TheGreatMTB]

Tracy Deonn
Namina Forna
Evan Winter
Natasha Bowen

off the top of my head

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

Eve Ewing
Christopher Priest
Bryan Edward Hill
Dwayne McDuffie

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Courttia Newland
Walter Mosely
Eric Jerome dikkey
Chimamanda Adichie

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Eve Ewing
Christopher Priest
Bryan Edward Hill
Dwayne McDuffie

NK Jemisin
Rodney Barnes
David F. Walker
John Ridley

 

[WTFisWallace?]

Coates
Isabella Wilkerson
Malcolm Gladwell
Olayemi Olurin


This was harder for me than I thought it would be.



(Full disclosure: I had to Google what ‘contemporary’ actually meant to be 100% sure )






Edit: I thought Walter Mosley was dead , I’ll sub one of them out and put him in.


2nd edit: I’ll sub out Malcolm Gladwell specifically…for TLR purposes


3rd edit: I’m just now seeing what Walter Mosley looks like….disregard the 2nd edit

 

[Kasgoinjail]

Coates
Isabella Wilkerson
Malcolm Gladwell
Olayemi Olurin


This was harder for me than I thought it would be.



(Full disclosure: I had to Google what ‘contemporary’ actually meant to be 100% sure )






Edit: I thought Walter Mosley was dead , I’ll sub one of them out and put him in.


2nd edit: I’ll sub out Malcolm Gladwell specifically…for TLR purposes


3rd edit: I’m just now seeing what Walter Mosley looks like….disregard the 2nd edit

Walter Mosley is a great author
Easy Rawlins series are good reads

 

[get these nets]

One for each section

William Rhoden -Coliseum
Jessica B Harris-The Root
Reginald Hudlin - Film Section
Justin Slayer*- JBO

 

[Fill Collins]

If Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright were alive, they'd be my answers

I don't care for a lot of contemporary anything, Black media, at least what I get shown is either lowest common denominator or LGBTGPS bougie bullshyt