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.
Ta-Nehisi Coates — Between the World and Me
Writers
2015 epistolary essay to Coates's son on Black life in America.
The Color Purple
Writers
Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel set in rural Georgia between the wars.
Toni Morrison — Beloved
Writers
1987 novel based on the true story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who killed her daughter rather than allow her recapture.
Toni Morrison — Jazz
Writers
Toni Morrison's 1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem.
Toni Morrison — Song of Solomon
Writers
1977 novel that opens with a man leaping from a Mercy Hospital roof in Michigan but ends with a Black flying myth tracing back to Shalimar, Virginia.
Toni Morrison — The Bluest Eye
Writers
Morrison's 1970 debut novel — a girl in 1940s Ohio prays for blue eyes.