Last week, I did a presentation focused on blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, novelist Colson Whitehead, and poet Kevin Young--four black men writers whose works I have followed regularly over the last several years. Their compositions have been useful touchstones, I was thinking, for getting me and folks in my circles thinking about a variety of concepts.
After the talk, I started thinking about a few other well-known black men born between 1969 and 1975, Whitehead's and Coates's respective birth years, who've been important to conversations I've had about "consciousness" during the contemporary era.
Here's a preliminary list of 13 of those men:
1969
Colson Whitehead, novelist
Jay-Z, rapper
1970
Kevin Young, poet
Mat Johnson, novelist
1971
Questlove, musician
Black Thought, rapper
1972
Saul Williams, poet/musician
Common, rapper
1973
Nas, rapper
1974
Aaron Mcgruder, cartoonist
1975
André Benjamin (André 3000), rapper
Darrin Bell, cartoonist
Ta-Nehisi Coates, blogger/journalist
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