Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ SONIA SANCHEZ, Philadelphia, Pa., March 14, 1996 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) is a poet, playwright, and professor (at Temple University) who has committed herself to political progressivism since the 1960s. She has written and edited numerous volumes, including We a Baddddd People 1970), We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans (1973), and A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women 1974).