#7976, aired 2019-04-22 | I WROTE IT $1200: "Invisible Man", a classic of African-American lit Ralph Ellison |
#7790, aired 2018-06-22 | LET'S TAKE A CLASS AT HARVARD $800: Phillis Wheatley & W.E.B. Du Bois are part of African-American lit "From the Beginnings to" this area's "Renaissance" Harlem |
#7544, aired 2017-06-01 | MUSICALLY TITLED LIT $1600: A classic of African-American lit gets its title from this Billie Holiday song that says, "Mama may have..." "God Bless The Child" |
#7500, aired 2017-03-31 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $800: This giant of African-American lit was named after another literary great: Emerson (Ralph Waldo) Ellison |
#5956, aired 2010-07-05 | HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: During each of the 7 days of this African-American celebration, a candle is lit to represent its 7 principles Kwanzaa |
#5277, aired 2007-07-17 | CLASSIC LIT $800: Completes the title of a classic about an African-American family "Roll of Thunder..." Hear My Cry |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: Her marriage to Mel Leventhal produced Rebecca Walker, who produced the memoir "Black, White and Jewish" Alice Walker |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: Jean Toomer's "Cane" (1923) is one of the major works of this New York City movement the Harlem Renaissance |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1200: Soon after this jazzman died, poet Michael Harper published a "Dear John" book about him John Coltrane |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1600: Donald Goines wrote 4 novels about an urban revolutionary named for this father of modern Kenya Jomo Kenyatta |
#4717, aired 2005-02-22 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $2000: Last name of poet Nikki, or first name of the man whose "room" is a James Baldwin book title Giovanni |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: A slaveowner's son becomes an abolitionist in "A Different Kind of Christmas" by this "Roots" author Alex Haley |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: Macon Dead III, also known as Milkman, is the protagonist of her novel "Song of Solomon" Toni Morrison |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: His 1962 novel "Another Country" is noted for its frank depiction of various sexual & interracial relationships James Baldwin |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: A mother of five is the heroine of "Mama" by this author who helped Stella get her groove back Terry McMillan |
#3703, aired 2000-10-11 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: "Linden Hills" was Gloria Naylor's second novel; her first was "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster Place |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $200: "You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down" is a book of stories by this Georgia-born author of "The Color Purple" Alice Walker |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $400: "Song of Solomon" was the first of her novels to have a male protagonist Toni Morrison |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $600: This famed orator who was born a slave wrote the 1855 memoir "My Bondage and My Freedom" Frederick Douglass |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $800: This poet called her 1976 memoir "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas" Maya Angelou |
#3630, aired 2000-05-19 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT $1000: Ernest J. Gaines "Autobiography of" this fictional woman became an Emmy-winning TV movie starring Cicely Tyson Miss Jane Pittman |