Sterling Allen Brown
Sterling A. Brown taught at this university for over 40 years.
Howard University
“All my life I had to fight”
The Color Purple
She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
This punctuation mark is often confused with a hyphen.
What is dash?
This Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Spelman alum wrote The Color Purple.
Alice Walker
Brown’s poetry often highlighted the lives, speech, and struggles of this community.
African Americans / Black folk traditions
Friday
Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance
Alain Leroy Locke
This is the term for a word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning.
What is a homophone?
This Nobel prize winner and laureate taught English at Howard University
Toni Morrison
Brown’s home in Washington, D.C. is now listed as one of these.
A historical landmark
“This is Wakanda. And we do not do that here.”
Black Panther
Wrote the books Beloved and The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
The plural of “syllabus” can be “syllabi” or this.
What is syllabuses?
This Howard alum wrote Between the World and Me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sterling A. Brown’s first poetry collection was this.
Southern Road
“Hellur!”
Madea’s Family Reunion
Queer writer and civil rights activist known for his 1953 novel, Go Tell it to the Mountain
James Baldwin
A word formed by combining two words, like “smog” or “brunch.”
What is Portmanteau?
This poet and author of Why a Caged Bird Sings attended Fisk University
Maya Angelou
Sterling A. Brown has the same middle name as this author of the narrative poem, The Raven.
Edgar Allan Poe
“Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s going on in the hood.”
Boyz n the Hood
political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Liberation Army. She was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. Tupac’s Godmother.
Assata Shakur
type of word that imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes
What is Onomatopoeia?
This leader of the Harlem Renaissance, playwright, novelist, and author of the poem “Harlem (Dreams Deferred) attended Lincoln University.
Langston Hughes