Black Literature

I saw this on Twitter earlier:

Of course the answer is YES!

But now I'm bummed, as I don't think I've read as much literature from black writers as I may have thought. Sure the usual stuff n college - Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nikki Giovanni etc - but nothing really since. So I just ordered Richard Wright's Native Son. Which, as I read the Amazon description:

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic.

sounds slightly similar to one of my all-time slices, Theodore Dreiser's American Tragedy.

Let's make this happen, PBS!