Resource | Black Women Writers

Why Dedicate a Page to Black Women Writers

In the era of abolishing DEI because of prejudice, we should be looking into our communities and elevating the spaces in which storytelling is prioritized to investigate culture, identity, pain, love, and more within the African Diaspora.

Writing as a form of activism: Newspapers, Journalists, Oral Histories, Zines

Genre: Non-fiction, Fiction, Science-fiction, Critique, Poetry, Autobiography, Memoirs

Our Ancestors

Black women writers


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Old Elizabeth

Maria Stewart

Harriet Jacobs

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Charlotte Forten Grimké

Lucy Parsons

Regina Anderson

Daisy Bates

Ida B Wells- Barnett

Mary Church Terrell

Alice Dunbar- Nelson

Angelina Weld Grimké

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Marita Bonner

Angela Davis

Ntozake Shange

Black women writers have long been the architects of preservation, storytelling, and truth-telling in a world that often seeks to erase, overlook, or distort Black life. Their words serve as both a mirror and a map—reflecting the richness, complexity, and resilience of Black experiences while charting new paths for understanding and liberation. Through literature, poetry, and essays, they document histories that might otherwise be lost, challenge dominant narratives, and offer deeply felt descriptions of Black life, love, and struggle that transcends class, prejudice, and systemic disenfranchisement. Yet, despite these contributions, their excellence is too often overshadowed, dismissed, or co-opted. Celebrating Black women writers is not just an act of recognition—it is a commitment to amplifying voices that have shaped cultural memory and continue to pave the way for justice, imagination, and literary brilliance.

Editorial Note: Black Women Writers

Black women writers have contributed a lot to history and culture worldwide. Arguably, archival work is one of the largest areas we owe thanks to Black women and their preservation of stories and history, as well as how we find our collective and independent identities that support Blackness as not a monolith.

From the Schomberg, where these living archives of artists live, to the critical fabulations of Sadiyah Hartman, scholars, and academics, Black Women have been at the forefront of digging deeper into histories in ways that imagine life beyond pain and the white history of slavery.

As this page is updated and populated with teachings, books, and quotes, consider how we archive in the margins through journaling, social media, book collecting, and circulation of thought. Writing, the act of note-taking, and the multitude of ways we ensure it lives on making a difference to a lot of people living and for generations to come as Blackness comes under fire for being “too diverse”, “exclusionary”, and other unfounded terms and phrases meant to demonize our collective energies to prevent erasure.