Paying Homage

A verified registry of the people building, making, and shaping what shows up on black.wiki. Over time, verified entries will receive plaques, certificates, and contributor cards — a durable record of who put in the work.

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Ralph Ellison — Invisible Man

Writers

1952 novel that opens at a Southern Black college modeled on Tuskegee and ends in a Harlem coal cellar.

Roxane Gay — Bad Feminist

Writers

2014 essay collection that brought Black feminist criticism into the mainstream.