| LaToya Jefferson-James is assistant professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University. CYNTHIA DAVIS is professor of English at San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas, where she Linda Jummai Mustafa is lecturer at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Nagueyalti Warren, PhD,is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University, where she has taught literature and a seminar on the works of Alice Walker for thirty years. She is the editor of Temba Tupu (Walking Naked): Africana Women's Poetic Self-Portrait (2005) and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2012). In addition to works of poetry-including Margaret, A Persona Poem (2008)-Warren is the author of W. E. B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2011). |