Question:  Katharine Kerr and Gwendolyn Brooks both sci-fi novelists?

Context articles: Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
Chicago Black Renaissance
Dudley Randall
Katharine Kerr
Eugenia Collier
Afro-Arts Theater
Maud Martha
Nora Brooks Blakely
Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy (known as Brooks) is a public selective enrollment 4-year magnet high school located in the Roseland neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.
 It is operated by Chicago Public Schools.
 A university-preparatory school, it is named for African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks is a book collection of 10 essays on the way in which white culture marginalizes black males.
 The title alludes to Gwendolyn Brooks' 1959 poem "We Real Cool".
 The essays are intended to provide cultural criticism and solutions to the problems she identifies.
The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
 The movement included such famous African-American writers as Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Arna Bontemps, and Lorraine Hansberry, as well as musicians Thomas A. Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, and Earl Hines.
 During the Great Migration, which brought tens of thousands of African-Americans to Chicago's South Side, African-American writers, artists, and community leaders began promoting racial pride and a new black consciousness, similar to that of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.
 Unlike the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Black Renaissance did not receive the same amount of publicity on a national setting.
 This was due to several factors, including the lower profile participants in the movement, the lack of wealthy patrons investing in the movement, and a geographical distance from New York as a publishing center.
Dudley Randall (January 14, 1914 – August 5, 2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan.
 He founded a pioneering publishing company called Broadside Press in 1965, which published many leading African-American writers, among them Melvin Tolson, Sonia Sanchez, Audre Lorde, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Margaret Walker, and others.
Katharine Kerr (born 1944) is an American science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced high fantasy novels set in the fictional land of Deverry.
Eugenia W. Collier (born 1928) is an African-American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction award.
 She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Opened in Chicago in 1967, it was a meeting place for Black Power Activists.
 On December 28, 1969, the Afro-Arts Theater on Chicago's South Side, Gwendolyn Brooks received what she considers the most stirring and significant tribute of her life.
Maud Martha is the only novel written by Pulitzer Prize winning African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks.
 Published in 1953 by Harper & Brothers and reprinted by Third World Press, it includes a series of vignettes following the title character Maud Martha as she negotiates the passage from childhood to adulthood in black Chicago neighbourhoods.
Nora Brooks Blakely (born September 8, 1951) is the President of Brooks Permissions, a permissions firm that manages the use of literary works by Gwendolyn Brooks and other authors.
Throughout her prolific writing career, Brooks received many more honors.
 She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968, a position held until her death, and what is now the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for the 1985–86 term.
 In 1976, she became the first African-American woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.