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The Weight and Substance of A Father's Law Book Review by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. |
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Harold Washington Remembered—When Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, died on Nov. 25, 1987, many of us understood that his death marked the passing of a great man. But while we lamented the negative impact of his loss, few of us had any inkling of the vast political vacuum he would leave behind. As time passes, the vacuum expands. Back then, it seemed likely that Washington’s powerful presence could propel the formation of progressive alliances across the country. However, as we grope around in the political darkness he once illuminated, it seems clear that his unique personality was a major reason for his success. . . . Washington’s initial election occurred in 1983, when progressive forces were mired in the gloom of the Reagan administration. He found mayoral success using a formula that was part campaign and part crusade. But Washington was no political neophyte, full of naïve idealism. He had already served many years as a state legislator and a member of Congress, and was well versed in the nuts and bolts of pragmatic politics. Salim Muwakkil |
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Clarence Thomas the 'Anti-Black' By BAR executive editor Glen Ford |
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Henry Dumas books: Ark of Bones (1970) / Poetry for My People (1971) / Play Ebony Play Ivory (1974) / Jonah and the Green Stone (1976) Rope of Wind and Other Stories (1979) / Goodbye, Sweetwater (1988) / Knees of a Natural Man: The Selected Poetry of Henry Dumas (1989) Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas // Reviews of Play Ebony, Play Ivory: Dumas Bio / JLester Review / JWright Introduction
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Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can't Win Interview with Kam Williams |
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The Works of William Sanders Scarborough Black Classicist and Race Leader Edited by Michele Valerie Ronnick |
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Do Me Twice: My Life after Islam A Memoir by Sonsyrea Tate Reviewed by Kam Williams |
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Books by Victor E. Dike, Democracy and Political Life in Nigeria & The Osu Caste System in Igboland: A Challenge for Nigerian Democracy |
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Claude McKay and Michael Manley Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations By Lloyd D. McCarthy |
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Scholarly Books on Langston Hughes Martha Cobb. Harlem, Haiti, and Havana: A comparative critical study of Langston Hughes, Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén. 1979. Faith Berry. Before & Beyond Harlem: Biography of Langston Hughes. 1995. / Onwuchekwa Jemie Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry. 1985 Edward J. Mullen. Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti . 1971 / Steven C. Tracy. Langston Hughes and the Blues. 2001. Arnold Rampersad. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume I: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941). 2002. Arnold Rampersad. The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967). 2002. R. Baxter Miller. The Art And Imagination of Langston Hughes. 2006. / Jonathan Scott Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes. 2006 |
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Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction Edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst |
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Sons of Black Power Sixties as 21st-Century Militants Reviews of Soul on Islam by Ahmad Cleaver and Hang Time! by Summer Hill Seven
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Drusilla Dunjee-Houston's Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cushite Empire, Book II Origin of Civilization from the Cushites. Edited by Peggy Brooks-Bertram Review by Larry Obadele Williams |
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Lynched Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi Honored with Statue in Nairobi -- His Remains Have Yet To Be Found |
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Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas By Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher Reviewed by George E. Curry |
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The Dark Heathenism of the American Novelist Ishmael Reed African Voodoo As American Literary Hoodoo By Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure Yellow Back Radio Broke Down (1969) Mumbo Jumbo (1972) The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974) |
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Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of 1940 During its campaign against France in 1940, the German army massacred several thousand black POWs belonging to units drafted in France's West African colonies. Documenting these war crimes on the basis of extensive research in French and German archives, Raffael Scheck advances a nuanced interpretation of the motivation for the massacres. Reviving traditional images of black soldiers as mutilating savages, a massive Nazi Propaganda offensive approved by Hitler, created their rationale. The treatment of black French POWs remained, however, suprisingly inconsistent, with abuses often triggered by certain combat situations. |
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Aboard the African Star By Alex Haley
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The Works of James McCune Smith Black Intellectual and Abolitionist By John Stauffer |
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Ed Bullins Chronology Productions & Publications / Interview with Ed Bullins (Marvin X) |
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Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past By Ray Raphael |
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Books by Caryl Phillips Crossing the River / The Atlantic Sound / The State of Independence / Cambridge / The European Tribe Extravagant Strangers / The Nature of Blood / A Distant Shore / Final Passage / Dancing in the Dark / Forigners / |
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Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas -- The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party's message and artist Emory Douglas became the paper's art director and later the party's Minister of Culture. Douglas's artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era's most iconic images, like that of Newton with his signature beret and large gun set against a background of a blood-red star, which could be found blanketing neighborhoods during the 12 years the paper existed. This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the party's visual identity. Publisher Rizzoli |
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Books by Countee Cullen Color (1925) / Copper Sun (1927) / Caroling Dusk (1927) / The Black Christ (1929) / My Soul's High Song (Anchor, 1990) Houston Baker, Many-Colored Coat of Dreams: The Poetry of Countee Cullen. Broadside Press, 1974
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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party (Mumia Abu-Jamal) What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race and the State of the Nation (South End Press Collective) |
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August Wilson Plays and Critical Perspectives August Wilson Century Cycle / Fences / Piano Lesson / Gem of the Ocean / Joe Turner's Come and Gone Radio Golf / King Hedley II / Jitney / Two Trains Running / August Wilson: Three Plays / Seven Guitars Ma Rainey's Black Bottom / The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson / August Wilson and Black Aesthetics |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beah |
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Youth
Fighting Old Men's Wars –.
Child soldiers in Sierra Leone helped rebel forces to wreak havoc in
villages, creating instability that enabled the rebels to gain
control of diamond fields. Teen soldiers in the United States are
recruited and put in uniform at age 15 (JROTC) to fight at age 17
for oil in Iraq. Some child soldiers in Sierra Leone escaped their
rebel "family" and the violence in overrun villages by running far
into the jungle and eventually finding refuge from the violence.
Some teen soldiers in the United States escaped their military
"family" and the violence in Iraq by going AWOL in the United States
or in Canada. Those from both countries who stayed with their
"families" remained because of "family ties and bonds" formed by
either rebel or national indoctrination and by steel - either
machetes or guns. . . . |
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Lessons from France Tram Nguyen Interviews Brima Conteh |
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James Baldwin Go Tell It on the Mountain, 1953 / Notes of a Native Son, 1955 / Giovanni's Room, 1956 / Nobody Know My Name (, 1962 / Another Country, 1962 The Fire Next Time, 1963 / Blues for Mister Charlie (a play, produced in 1964) / Going to Meet the Man, 1965 / Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, 1968 A Rap on Race, with Margaret Mead, 1971 / If Beale Street Could Talk 1974 / The Devil Finds Work, 1976 / Just Above My Head, 1979 The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 1985 / The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction, 1948-1985, 1985 /Perspectives: Angles on African Art, 1987 Conversations with James Baldwin, 1989 /Early Novels and Stories, 1998 / Collected Essays, 1998 (ed. by Toni Morrison)
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Books on Rap & Hip Hop
Todd Boyd, Brian Cross, It's Not About a Salary... Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles: Rap, Race, and Resistance in Los Angeles (1993) Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994) Russell A. Porter, Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (1995) Bakari Kitwana, The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture (2003) Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (2004) |
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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present By Harriet A. Washington -- Reviewed by Kam Williams
Anarcha's Story by Alexandria C. Lynch, MS III |
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Black America's Real Issue with Barack Obama --Both Barack Obama's Republican opponents and the centrist Democrats who support his presidential candidacy agree on one thing. They all agree that black opinion on the senator is both uninformed and irrelevant. To hear the mainstream media, black dissatisfaction with Senator Obama is all about his black African father, his white American mother, his light complexion and his Columbia and Harvard Law degrees. The day after Rush Limbaugh called the senator a "half-frican" on the air, the term was in the mouths of ignorant black talk show hosts in multiple cities. Black America was then admonished and chided by white Republicans and Democrats of all colors for not embracing Senator Obama based on some foolish standard of black authenticity. This is a racist calumny and slur of the first magnitude against all of black America. Our people have never rejected leading figures because of light complexions, immigrant parents or advanced degrees. Bruce Dixon Black Agenda Report Hypocrisy on Health Care Obama's Audacious Deference to Power |
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Dudley Randall—Publisher, Editor, Poet A Librarian as Guiding Light of Black Arts Movement Bio-sketch by Lorenzo Thomas & Poems |
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Something in the Way of Things (In Town) By Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka Table New Work by Baraka (Black World, 1973) |
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Books by Baraka: The Essence of Reparations and Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems Autobiography of LeRoi Jones Tales of the Out & the Gone |
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Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twentieth-First Century By Sherrilyn A. Hill |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
Poetry: Children Coming Home (1991) / In Montgomery and Other Poems (2003)
Prose: Novel: Maud Martha (1953)
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Remembering June Jordan 1936-2002 -- Books, Bio, and Poems |
| American Women's History Tony Bolden,. The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters. Adams Media Corporation, 1996. Jurate Kazickas, , and Lynn Sherr. Susan B. Anthony Slept Here. A Guide to American Women's Landmarks. Random House, 1994 Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, and Peggy Brooks-Bertram. Uncrowned Queens: African American Community Builders. Uncrowned Queens, 2002. Doris Weatherford, American Women's History. Prentice Hall General Reference, 1994 |
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Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry A Critical History by Eugene B. Redmond |
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New Negro Poets U.S.A. Edited by Langston Hughes Foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks Thurmond Snyder 's "The Beast With Chrome Teeth" and "Seeds" |
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Larry Neal Interview Larry Neal Chronology The Black Arts Movement (Larry Neal) Black Fire (Afterword) Larry Neal Speaks on the Black Arts
Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat Sonnets for Larry Neal ( Rudolph Lewis) |
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Books on Negro Spirituals The Negro and His Music (Locke) / The Spiritual and the Blues: An Interpretation (Cone) / Best Loved Spirituals (Mahalia) The Book of the American Negro Spirituals (Johnson) / American Negro Songs: Folk Songs and Spirituals (Work) Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (Thurman) |
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream By Barack Obama Book Review by Kam Williams Hypocrisy on Health Care by Bruce Dixon / Obama's Audacious Deference to Power by Paul Street |
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The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst
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Books by W.E.B. Du Bois The Suppression of the African Slave Trade (1896) / The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) / The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (1903) John Brown (1909) / The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911) / Darkwater: Voices Within the Veil (1920) Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America (1924) / Dark Princess: A Romance (1928) / Black Reconstruction in America (1935) / Black Folk, Then and Now (1939) Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace (1945) / The World and Africa: An Inquiry (1947) / In Battle for Peace (1952) / A Trilogy: The Ordeal of Monsart (1957) Monsart Builds a School (1959) nd Worlds of Color (1961) / An ABC of Color: Selections (1963) The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century (1968) |
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Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing Edited by Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal |
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Larry Neal Interview Larry Neal Chronology The Black Arts Movement (Larry Neal) Black Fire (Afterword) Larry Neal Speaks on the Black Arts Don’t Say Goodbye to the Pork Pie Hat Sonnets for Larry Neal ( Rudolph Lewis) |
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Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race Selected Critical Essays 1979 to 2001 By Carol Cooper |
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Keenan Norris Freedom Vision (On Chester Himes & prisons) fresno gone A short story / Coal, Charcoal, and Chocolate Comedy |
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Tales of the Out & the Gone |
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Edited by John H. Bracey, Jr., August Meier, & Elliott Rudwick |
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The Biography of Philip Reid Historical Fiction by Eugene Walton
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
By Jonathan Scott |
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Why Black Radical Politics Has Failed Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era By Adolph Reed Jr. |
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Not in My Family: AIDS in the African-American Family Edited by Gil L. Robertson, IV A review by Kam Williams Related files: Where will the leadership on HIVAIDS come from in the black community? |
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Rough Crossings: Britain the Slaves and the American Revolution By Simon Schama |
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the Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens By Keith Gilyard |
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a belated note to the editors of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature By Alvin Aubert author of Harlem Wrestler |
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Kola Boof: Long Train to the Redeeming Sin-Stories About African Women Diary of a Lost Girl Kola Boof Video |
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The Devil's Garden By Adrian Matejka Reviewed by Van G. Garrett |
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Ronald W. Walters White Nationalism, Black Interests Reviews Contents Introduction Legitimacy to Lead |
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More Nina Simone: Bio-Chronology Four Women To be Young, Gifted and Black Well Done, Miss Simone An Angelic Trio |
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Unburnable By Marie-Elena John |
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Densie Nichols Freshwater Road |
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Poems by Drisana Deborah Jack |
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Lasana Sekou in Oxford Poetry Book and Caribbean Encyclopedia By Jacqueline Sample |
A selection of six (6) poems The Salt Reaper Tortured Fragments Visit & Fellowship II Sekou Knighted |
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Black Girls Learn Love Hard Poems by Ras Baraka Sample poems #1 #4 There Are Some Black Men |
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Ralph Garlin Clingan Against Cheap Grace An Annual Clingan Christmas Letter, 2005 |
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An Anthology of Black Memphis Writers and Artists Miriam DeCosta-Willis & Fannie Mitchell Delk, Editors Philip Dotson, Art Editor Etheridge Knight: He Sees Through Stone Once on a Night in the Delta |
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The Venezuelan Revolution 100 Questions-100 Answers By Chesa Boudin, Gabriel Gonzalez, and Wilmer Rumbos Book Reviewed by Amin Sharif |
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Amin Sharif Letters from Young Activists Today’s Rebels Speak Out (Review ) |
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Update on the Re-Building of New Orleans A Report from Mona Lisa Saloy A Life Won with Blood & Tears (Book Review) |
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Santeria The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America by Miguel A. De La Torre Quest for the Cuban Christ Table of Contents Foreword Ajiaco Christianity |
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A Review of Brian Johnson’s Du Bois on Reform (2005) Du Bois & Civil Religion Social Role of Black Journalism By Rudolph Lewis |
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The Death Bound Subject Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death by Abdul R. JanMohamed We Flew Over the Bridge The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold |
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A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century Edited by Joyce E. King |
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More African American Special Days By Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Soul Pearls: Worship Resources |
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A Return to the Civil Rights Movement By Tom Dent Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis |
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Hit Me, Fred Recollections of a Sideman by Fred Wesley Jr. / Cotton Field of Dreams By Janis F. Kearney |
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Focus on African Films Edited by Francoise Pfaff |
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The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough An American Journey from Slavery to Scholarship Edited with an Introduction by Michelle Valerie Ronnick Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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The Politics of Public Housing Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality By Rhonda Y. Williams |
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Dreaming Underground (Poems) By Monifa A. Love Winner of the 2003 Naomi Madgett Poetry Award |
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Ama A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade By Manu Herbstein |
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Dawnsong The Epic Memory of Askia Touré By Askia M. Touré Introduction by Joyce M. Joyce Rudy Interviews Askia Touré |
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Rudy Interviews Carlyle Van Thompson author of The Tragic Black Buck -- Racial Masquerading in the American Literary Imagination |
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