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Essays, Reviews, Commentaries,  Poems

By Amin Sharif

 

 

Amin Sharif, native of Baltimore, is co-editor I Am New Orleans & Other Poems by Marcus B. Christian (1999) & author of The Story of Joseph: The Egyptian Elements in the Old Testament (1994). Sharif also has several manuscripts of plays he has written that are now in the process of revision. He is now also working on a novel. While employed as a counselor, he will continue his program of taking courses in mathematics in hope of obtaining a degree in that field of study. Sharif is a contributing writer of ChickenBones: A Journal.

 

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Commentaries (Bonehard Column)

American Institution of Lynching (commentary)  

The Assassination of Cool

Black Legion  (commentary)

Chester Himes' Call for a Negro Revolution!!! (commentary)

The Confessions of the Murderers (commentary) 

Daisy Bates’ How My Mother Died (commentary)

A Bone to Pick: Saving Baltimore’s Kids  (human interest report)

Carol Moseley Braun's Iowa Campaign (letter to Editor)

Is Hip Hop Really Dead? (commentary)

On J. A. Rogers' "Hitler and the Negro" (commentary)

On Daisy Bates’ How My Mother Died

Response to Project 21 (letter to Editor)

Teaching Dred Scott to City College (commentary)

Ugliness in the Beautiful Game

Waking Mike Vick

What Will Be After An Iraqi War? (commentary)

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Essays

The Birth of a Nation

Black Man Descending: On Mike Tyson (essay)

Blue Note: A History of Modern Jazz 

Chick Webb: Baltimore's Jazz Giant (bio-sketch)

HyderBad: A Third World Cyber-City

Letters from Young Activists

Malcolm X Is Dead! (essay)

NetWar: The New Threat  (essay)

Notes from the Digital Revolution  (essay)

A Post Industrial Blues (essay)

A Post-Industrial Vision (essay)

Steal Big, Steal Little (essay)

Third World CyberActivists (essay)

We Sing the Revolution Electric! (essay)

Why I Support the Latino Demonstrators

The World to Come (essay)

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Fourth World Essays

Afro-America & The Fourth World 

The Black Middle Class & a Political Party of the Poor  (essay)

Dark Child of the Fourth World  

The Fourth World and the Marxists

The Fourth World: In the Belly of the Beast

New Orleans: The American Nightmare

On the Fourth World: Black Power, Black Panthers, and White Allies

Why I Support the Latino Demonstrators

 

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Interviews

Interviews with Lil Joe on Class & Race

Nuai Interview

Sharif Interviews Junious

Tim Berens Interviews Jimmy Ponder

 

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Poems

 

Big Easy Blues (poem)

Bloody Sunday at Pettus Bridge

A Blues for the Birmingham Four

The Day the Devil Has Won

In Praise of Langston Hughes (poem)

i speak of bones (poem)

miles davis (poem)

Resurrection in Mississippi (poem for Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)

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Reviews 

About Romare Bearden (art/artist review) 

AfriClassical.com: Song of a New Race (website review)

Arturo Sandoval in Baltimore (concert review)

Black Snake Moan: Passion in the Southland (film review)

Deacons for Defense  (film review)

Good Looks! Programming (African American TV programs recommended)

Scandalize My Name and the Howling Wolf Story

An HBO Special --UnChained Memories (film review0

H. Rap Brown's Die Nigger Die!  (book review)

If You Only Knew: A Film Review (film review)

Letters from Young Activists (book review)

Mama's Letters from Jerusalem (review) 

Muddy Waters on PBS (Documentary review)

Retrospective on Soul on Ice (book review)

Unforgivable Blackness (documentary review)

The Venezuelan Revolution 100 Questions-100 Answers (book review)

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Related Material

Activist Works on Next Level of Change  (By Gregory Kane)

African America A Fourth World   (Waldron H. Giles)

Afro-America & The Fourth World Waldron H. Giles)

Amite County

A Philip Randolph

Beginning

Black and Indian Power 

Black Destiny and William Bennett  (Waldron H. Giles)

Black Indians

Black Power

Conversations with Kind Friends

DuBois Malcolm King Political Action Forum

Dhu'l Nun 

Election Day Returns

The Fourth World Multiculturalism (Rose Ure Mezu)

Ghana and The Right to Abode

Katrina New Orleans Flood Index

Kish Mir Tuchas

Lessons from France

The Letters of David Parks (preface) 

Letter to Yvonne 

Living Scripture in Community

Luqman   

Malcolm X Letter to Elijah Muhammad 

The Malcolm X Tour 2003 

Martin Luther King’s Vision   

The Meaning Of Malcolm X

Merchant of Baghdad

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Mississippi Freedom School  

Mollie Cooper's Life in Mississippi

The Name of Allah Be Round About Us 

New Orleanian Henry Austan

Paris Is Burning 

Peter Bailey

The Pyres of Autumn

Randolph Visits Ghana

Religion and Politics

Responses to Jean Baudrillard 

Slavery and the American Economy  (Waldron H. Giles)   

Speech by President Hugo Chávez 

Third World Traveler

The Three Alis   

To Take One's X

A Tribute to Kwame Toure/Stokely Carmichael

The Venezuela Connection  

The Ways of Women

 

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Bill Moyers Interviews Douglass A. Blackmon

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/watch2.html

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (2008)

 

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updated 4 October 2007

 

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