American dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison made her New York debut with the American Ballet Theatre in 1964. Jamison’s fame began to build when she joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1965, the company of which she would become ar...

Renaissance woman Maya Angelou is a poet, author, playwright, professional stage and screen producer, director, and performer. One of her best known written works is I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), a humorous autobiography set in segregated A...

Popular African-American writer Terry McMillan was born on October 18, 1951 and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a bachelor's degree in journalism. While still at Berkeley, she wrot...

David Halberstam [1934-] is one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define our era. In 1960, after having covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean, Ha...