Lula B Jones
Co-wrote Heaven Bound, an African American folk drama that portrays the struggles and pitfalls of a group of pilgrims striving to reach the gates of heaven
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Nellie L Davis
Co-wrote Heaven Bound, an African American folk drama that portrays the struggles and pitfalls of a group of pilgrims striving to reach the gates of heaven
Kate Jordan
Irish novelist and playwright
Thoko Ntshinga
For South African actress Thoko Ntshinga, her art and her community are inseparable.
Lisa Bellear
Lisa Bellear’s work as an artist, poet, photographer, broadcaster, activist and academic continues to inspire change and educate.
Gertrude Johnson
Gertrude Johnson OBE was an Australian opera singer, arts educator and administrator.
Charlotte Brooke
Irish poet, dramatist, and pioneer in the introduction of Irish culture to the English reader
Susan Myrick
Despite a journalism career with the Macon Telegraph that spanned half a century, Susan Myrick is best known as the technical advisor for the film Gone With the Wind (1939). She also held many other titles in her long and colorful life—educator, soil conservation advocate, civic leader, amateur theater doyenne, and painter.
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is a fiction writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist who has lived in Atlanta since 1969. In her writing, Cleage draws on her experiences as an activist for AIDS and women’s rights, and she cites the rhythms of Black life as her muse.
Shay Youngblood
Shay Youngblood was a distinguished Georgia writer who followed Black roots and routes. Her novels, short stories, and plays explore themes of family and community, as well as topics such as history, ancestry, and sexual identity.