Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Brooks was the first African American to ever win a Pulitzer Prize (in 1950). You go, girl. (Source.)
Brooks's poems were always politically conscious, but Brooks took her interest in progressive politics to a new level when she explored the point of view of activist Winnie Mandela, wife of antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela. (Source.)
Dig her poetry? Brooks also wrote a novel, Maud Martha. (Source.)