by Ida Harris
June 22, 2026
On This Day: 250 Years Of American History …
Black Enterprise pays homage to two of the nation's literary GOATS on June 22nd
On this day, June 22, BLACK ENTERPRISE pays homage to two of the nation’s literary goats: W. E. B Du Bois, the author and scholar who wrote the seminal text, The Souls of Black Folk, and Octavia Butler, the brilliant author who penned Kindred, the tale of a Black woman who time travel back to the horrors of slavery.


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