Black Journalist Mugs

A Journalist female skull and crossed pens black logo especially for women reporters, writers and journalism students.

For aspiring writers of all ages: "Future Journalist" in black typewriter text. Always got the latest news? Love to write? This design is for you. Also available in white, and as a separate design for future novelists.

A painting of Tintin and Haddock drinking tea

An unwavering personality and extraordinary talent would be the quick way to describe Tom Wolfe. Determined and with qualities, he dedicated his life to letters. Using them to describe events and also invented stories, although using a severe realism, he managed to bring his first novel to the big screen. Part of his personal brand was wearing a white suit.

Ida B Wells

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. Prior to the 20th century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empow...

Civil Rights Activists

Writer at work. Do not disturb.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

Simple white letters on black background: "Jen Psaki stan account." Psaki has already made her mark through, well, knowing what she's talking about. What a refreshing change from the McEnany, amirite? The White House is mainly truthful again. Bliss.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands. Prior to the 20th century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empow...

Masthead for Richmond's first African American Newspaper.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

Simple white letters on black background: "Jen Psaki stan account." Jen Psaki has already made her mark through, well, knowing what she's talking about. What a refreshing change from the McEnany, amirite? The White House is mainly truthful again. Bliss.

Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ideas came to be known as Garveyism. Garvey was born to a moderately prosperous Afro-Jamaican family in Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica, and apprenticed into the print trade as a teenager. Working in Kingston, he became involved in trade unionism before living briefly in Costa Rica, Panama, and England. Returning to Ja...

A minimal typography design, of the word observer in white colored text. Looks best on classic black and other strong colors. Word on a shirt.

This image presents a stylized depiction of a medieval knight in full armor, holding a giant pen as if it were a lance or spear. The phrase "The pen is mightier than the sword" is handwritten above the knight, reiterating the message that writing and ideas have more influence than force or violence. The knight stands confidently, and the overall tone of the illustration is both heroic and thoughtful, with a clear message about the power of words.

Publisher

On 16 October 2017, Caruana Galizia died close to her home when a car bomb was detonated inside her vehicle, attracting widespread local and international condemnation of the attack.

With this image, we celebrate Nicolás Guillén, the national poet of Cuba.

A close-up view of the keys on a vintage typewriter. 1921.

Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe (then Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia), to South African parents, Brutus was of indigenous Khoi, Dutch, French, English, German and Malaysian ancestry. His parents moved back home to Port Elizabeth when he was aged four, and young Brutus was classified under South Africa’s apartheid racial code as "coloured". Brutus was a graduate of the University of Fort Hare (BA, 1946) and of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied law. He taught English and Afrikaans at several high schools in South Afric...

Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games. Born in Harare, Zimbabwe (then Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia), to South African parents, Brutus was of indigenous Khoi, Dutch, French, English, German and Malaysian ancestry. His parents moved back home to Port Elizabeth when he was aged four, and young Brutus was classified under South Africa’s apartheid racial code as "coloured". Brutus was a graduate of the University of Fort Hare (BA, 1946) and of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied law. He taught English and Afrikaans at several high schools in South Afric...

Everybody seems to want to share their opinions these days. And often very loudly. This might just discourage those unwanted 'well, actually I think...'s.

max robinson

With this image, we celebrate Uruguayan poet and singer-songwriter Alfredo Zitarrosa.

Simple white letters on black background: "Jen Psaki stan account." Psaki has already made her mark through, well, knowing what she's talking about. What a refreshing change from the McEnany, amirite? The White House is mainly truthful again. Bliss.

Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.