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By Simon Sebag Montefiore Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgment Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of three thousand years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the “center of the world” and now the key to peace in the Middle East? In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever-changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. Jerusalem’s biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women—kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores—who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem. As well as the many ordinary Jerusalemites who have left their mark on the city, its cast varies from Solomon, Saladin and Suleiman the Magnificent to Cleopatra, Caligula and Churchill; from Abraham to Jesus and Muhammad; from the ancient world of Jezebel, Nebuchadnezzar, Herod and Nero to the modern times of the Kaiser, Disraeli, Mark Twain, Lincoln, Rasputin, Lawrence of Arabia and Moshe Dayan. Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime’s study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice—in heaven and on earth. |
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Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics By Nicholas Wapshott Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed eighty years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day. As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Freidrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. |
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Bob Dylan—Highway 51 Live at Town Hall 1963 / Bob Dylan—Ballad of Hollis Brown / Nina Simone—Go to Hell / Harry Belafonte—John Henry / Nina Simone—Ballad of Hollis Brown |
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Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity By Jeffrey D. Sachs The Price of Civilization is a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. Sachs finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization’s long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America’s single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities. Sachs describes a political system that has lost its ethical moorings, in which ever-rising campaign contributions and lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the citizenry. . . . Sachs offers a plan to turn the crisis around. He argues persuasively that the problem is not America’s abiding values, which remain generous and pragmatic, but the ease with which political spin and consumerism run circles around those values. He bids the reader to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and one another. The Economy |
Film Reviews of The Help (Lewis) / Who or What Does "The Help" Help / Omar Offendum: Soundtrack of the Revolution (Interview by Julia Pyper ) |
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Nappy Headed Women By Peggy Bertram
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Race, Incarceration, and American Values By Glenn C. Loury I Three shorter essays respond: Stanford law professor Karlan examines prisoners as an inert ballast in redistricting and voting practices; French sociologist Wacquant argues that the focus on race has ignored the fact that inmates are first and foremost poor people; and Harvard philosophy professor Shelby urges citizens to break with Washington's political outlook on race. The group's respectful sparring results in an insightful look at the conflicting theories of race and incarceration, and the slim volume keeps up the pace of the argument without being overwhelming.—Publishers Weekly / Economist Glenn Loury /Criminalizing a Race |
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Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity By Jeffrey D. Sachs The Price of Civilization is a book that is essential reading for every American. In a forceful, impassioned, and personal voice, he offers not only a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. Sachs finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture, offering shortsighted solutions such as stimulus spending or tax cuts to address complex economic problems that require deeper solutions. Sachs argues that we have profoundly underestimated globalization’s long-term effects on our country, which create deep and largely unmet challenges with regard to jobs, incomes, poverty, and the environment. America’s single biggest economic failure, Sachs argues, is its inability to come to grips with the new global economic realities. Sachs describes a political system that has lost its ethical moorings, in which ever-rising campaign contributions and lobbying outlays overpower the voice of the citizenry. . . . Sachs offers a plan to turn the crisis around. He argues persuasively that the problem is not America’s abiding values, which remain generous and pragmatic, but the ease with which political spin and consumerism run circles around those values. He bids the reader to reclaim the virtues of good citizenship and mindfulness toward the economy and one another. The Economy |
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Power in Words: The Stories behind Barack Whatever his policies and actions, President Obama is widely regarded as a powerful speaker. Berry and Gottheimer offer a collection of 18 of Obama’s most important speeches, illustrating his ascent as a politician and subtle changes in style and consistency of message—one of unity, responsibility, and change. The editors include historical context for changes in style, delivery, use of speechwriters, and media for presidential speeches since George Washington and how Obama fits into the tradition. The collection begins with Obama’s speech against the war in Iraq in 2002 when he was still a state senator; it also includes his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention that launched him into the national spotlight; his presidential campaign announcement in Springfield, Illinois, in 2007; his speech on race in Philadelphia; and concludes with his election night speech in Grant Park in Chicago. The editors precede each speech with commentary from speechwriters, journalists, and political analysts on the behind-the-scenes context for the speech and how it illustrates Obama’s development as a candidate. A revealing look at the power of words.—Booklist |
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Notable Black Memphians by Miriam DeCosta-Willis—This biographical and historical study by Miriam DeCosta-Willis (PhD, Johns Hopkins University and the first African American faculty member of Memphis State University) traces the evolution of a major Southern city through the lives of men and women who overcame social and economic barriers to create artistic works, found institutions, and obtain leadership positions that enabled them to shape their community. Documenting the accomplishments of Memphians who were born between 1795 and 1972, it contains photographs and biographical sketches of 223 individuals (as well as brief notes on 122 others), such as musicians Isaac Hayes and Aretha Franklin, activists Ida B. Wells and Benjamin L. Hooks, politicians Harold Ford Sr. and Jr., writers Sutton Griggs and Jerome Eric Dickey, and Bishop Charles Mason and Archbishop James Lyke—all of whom were born in Memphis or lived in the city for over a decade. . . .
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GREAT BAY, St. Martin (July 31, 2011)—It’s official. It’s a bestseller! From Yvette’s Kitchen To Your Table – A Treasury of St. Martin’s Traditional & Contemporary Cuisine by Yvette Hyman has sold out, according to House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). In a record seven weeks after its June 2011 release here, less than 80 copies of the cookbook are left in bookstores and with the author’s family representatives charged with distribution, said Jacqueline Sample, HNP president. The decision on whether to reprint a new batch of From Yvette’s Kitchen … lies with the family of the late award-winning chef, said the publisher.“We are very thankful to the people of St. Martin for embracing Yvette’s cookbook. The visitors to our island also bought many copies of this beautifully designed book of the nation’s cuisine,” said Sample.From Yvette’s Kitchen is made up of 13 chapters, including Appetizers, Soups, Poultry, Fish and Shellfish, Meat, Salads, Dumplings, Rice and Fungi, Breads, and Desserts.The 312-page full color book includes recipes for Souse, the ever-popular Johnny cake, and Conch Yvette’s. Lamb stew, coconut tart, guavaberry, and soursop drink are also among the over 200 recipes à la Yvette in this Treasury of St. Martin’s Traditional & Contemporary Cuisine, said Sample.“We hope that this cookbook’s success also adds to the indicator of the performance and importance of books published in the Caribbean,” said Sample.The other HNP book that sold out in such a short time was the 1989 poetry collection Golden Voices of S’maatin. That first title by Ruby Bute had sold out in about three months and has since been reprinted, said Sample. |
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Towards a Black Aesthetic By Hoyt W. Fuller, Author of Journey to Africa |
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Women Talking to Michele Vas-y, Parle à Michelle Par: Jacqueline Jean-Baptiste |
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Michelle Alexander Speaks At Riverside Church / part 2 of 4 / part 3 of 4 / part 4 of 4 / / Cynthia McKinney—US lawmakers forced to support Israel / Slum Stories: Lost Chanc |
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Kwazibani: Nomfusi & The Lucky Charms / Portraits of Power December 7, 2009 / Immortal Technique: No Haiti escape from capitalism! / Emperor Obama vs the Arab people |
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Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights By Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due While Martin Luther King was a major influence on Patricia Stephens Due, she knows that the civil rights movement was spurred on by average citizens like her throughout the South in the 1960s, and she sets out in this memoir to write her story as well as the stories of her fellow grassroots activists. Her tale is interwoven with that of her daughter, Tananarive, who won an American Book Award this year for her novel The Living Blood. Patricia's narrative takes the reader through protests at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Florida and numerous arrests that garnered national attention, leading to a correspondence with King as well as baseball hero and activist Jackie Robinson. . . . mother and daughter write (in alternating chapters) with an energy that is cathartic . , , |
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Gil Scott-Heron: Work For Peace / Your Daddy Loves You / Originals 5/6 / Originals 3/6 / Originals 2/6 / Winter In America |
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Forged: Writing in the Name of God Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are By Bart D. Ehrman The evocative title tells it all and hints at the tone of sensationalism that pervades this book. Those familiar with the earlier work of Ehrman, a distinguished professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of more than 20 books including Misquoting Jesus, will not be surprised at the content of this one. Written in a manner accessible to nonspecialists, Ehrman argues that many books of the New Testament are not simply written by people other than the ones to whom they are attributed, but that they are deliberate forgeries. The word itself connotes scandal and crime, and it appears on nearly every page. Indeed, this book takes on an idea widely accepted by biblical scholars: that writing in someone else's name was common practice and perfectly okay in ancient times. Ehrman argues that it was not even then considered acceptable—hence, a forgery. While many readers may wish for more evidence of the charge, Ehrman's introduction to the arguments and debates among different religious communities during the first few centuries and among the early Christians themselves, though not the book's main point, is especially valuable.—Publishers Weekly / Forged Bart Ehrman’s New Salvo |
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Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You Tonight / Talkin bout a revolution / Give me one reason / Crossroad / New Beginning |
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Etheridge Knight—The Idea of Ancestry / Ode to Obama: Amiri Baraka / Maya Angelou 1993 Bill Clinton Inauguration / Street Life in Lagos |
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century By Dorothy Roberts A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial. Moving from an account of the evolution of race—proving that it has always been a mutable and socially defined political division supported by mainstream science—Roberts delves deep into the current debates, interrogating the newest science and biotechnology, interviewing its researchers, and exposing the political consequences obscured by the focus on genetic difference. Fatal Invention is a provocative call for us to affirm our common humanity.—New Press Devil in a Blue Dress and Cinnamon Kiss (Mimi Ferebee) / We Can't Afford To Not Fix Justice System (Benjamin Todd Jealous) |
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Read A Book - Get Crunk about Reading / Read A Book (Cartoon) / Bomani "D'Mite" Armah - Read a Book / Read a Book OKAYY!!! / CNN interview
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Shirley Sherrod—Fox News Destroying an Innocent Woman to Attack Obama / Rachel Maddow: Black People Are Coming To Get You Part 1 / Part 2 |
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To 'Joy My Freedom / Washerwomen Sons and Daughters Vanishing Washerwoman Washerwomen in Brooklyn Washer-Woman Poem |
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The Intersection of Beauty and Crime Poems by Jawanza Phoenix |
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Lunch Poems: Harryette Mullen / Left of Black—Episode 5, 10-18-10 / Jimi Hendrix—All Along the Watchtower / Aminatta Forna discusses The Memory of Love |
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Farai Chideya, author of Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans (Plume Penguin 1995), now in it's eigth printing, The Color of Our Future (William Morrow, 1999), named one of the best books for teens by the New York Public Library, and Trust: REaching the 100 Million Missing Voters (Soft Skull, 2004) has worked in print for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Spin, Vibe, O, Mademoiselle, Essence, and more. Prior to joining NPR's News & Notes, she hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show on San Franciso's KALW 91.7. Kiss the Sky crackles with raw energy . . . Farai Chideya's prose is smart, fast, clever, and addictive, with not only a breathless tension in the literary flow, but infused with musicality. You'll be rooting for Sophie to navigate her way through her relationships, her corporate television job, divey clubs, family dynamics, European music tours, industry sabotage, and self sabotage. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put this book down.—Lalita Tademy, author of Cane River and Red River |
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K'NAAN—T.I.A. (This Is Africa) / Hugh Masekela—Coal Train Live / Unomathemba / Soweto Freedom Song / Eric Dolphy—God Bless the Child |
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Larry Neal Speaks / The Negro as Author / I Tried to Be a Communist / César Vallejo / C K Williams / Clarence Major |
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Tavis Smiley Questions Minister Louis Farrakhan on President Barack Obama: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 |
God Parent of Hip-Hop? Nikki Giovanni’s Truth is On the Way (Mark Anthony Neal) |
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k'naan song call (My God) Live at BB King feat Mos Def / Austin City Limits K'Naan / Mos Def / Austin City Limits Allen Toussaint / Michael S. Harper |
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Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media The Return of the Nigger Breakers By Ishmael Reed For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the Nigger Breakers men like Edward Covey, who was handed the job of breaking Frederick Douglass. Isn’t it ironic, writes Reed: A media that scolded the Jim Crow South in the 1960s now finds itself hosting the bird. In this collection, which includes several unpublished essays, Ishmael Reed brings to bear his grasp of the four-centuries-long African-American experience as he turns his penetrating gaze on Barack Obama’s election and first year in power establishing himself as the conscience of a country that was once moved by Martin Luther King’s dream.—Baraka Books (April 15, 2010) |
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Shirley Sherrod—Fox News Destroying an Innocent Woman to Attack Obama / Rachel Maddow: Black People Are Coming To Get You Part 1 / Part 2 |
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Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid By Frank B. Wilderson III Wilderson, a professor, writer and filmmaker from the Midwest, presents a gripping account of his role in the downfall of South African apartheid as one of only two black Americans in the African National Congress (ANC). After marrying a South African law student, Wilderson reluctantly returns with her to South Africa in the early 1990s, where he teaches Johannesburg and Soweto students, and soon joins the military wing of the ANC. Wilderson's stinging portrait of Nelson Mandela as a petulant elder eager to accommodate his white countrymen will jolt readers who've accepted the reverential treatment usually accorded him. After the assassination of Mandela's rival, South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani, Mandela's regime deems Wilderson's public questions a threat to national security; soon, having lost his stomach for the cause, he returns to America. Wilderson has a distinct, powerful voice and a strong story that shuffles between the indignities of Johannesburg life and his early years in Minneapolis, the precocious child of academics who barely tolerate his emerging political consciousness. Wilderson's observations about love within and across the color line and cultural divides are as provocative as his politics; despite some distracting digressions, this is a riveting memoir of apartheid's last days.—Publishers Weekly |
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Commodores: Brick House / Jesus Is Love / Nightshift / Sail On / Easy / Three times a lady / Machine Gun / Slippery When Wet |
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It’s money that matters The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson—On nearly every one of its 250-plus pages, a stark, unflattering graph shows the USA topping the charts among developed countries for some social ailment: drug use, obesity, violence, mental illness, teenage pregnancy, illiteracy. . . . It is economic inequality, not overall wealth or cultural differences, that fosters societal breakdown, they argue, by boosting insecurity and anxiety, which leads to divisive prejudice between the classes, rampant consumerism, and all manner of mental and physical suffering. . . . Their efforts have been hailed by left-leaning thinkers and critics as a compass for righting the nation’s current course; the book—its title refers to the tool known in America as a carpenter’s level, which measures slopes—is being translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Korean, and Norwegian. Boston Globe |
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Mamadou Lumumba ( b. October 11, 1938 – d. October 20, 2009) was editor of Oakland-based Soulbook |
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches 2006 By Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable In an era filled with charismatic leaders, Evers (1925–1963) came to national attention primarily as the victim of "the first political assassination of a major leader of the modern Black Freedom Movement." As NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, Evers recruited NAACP members, desegregated schools, registered voters and organized boycotts. The work was usually undramatic, but always perilous. Evers's widow and historian Marable seek to redress Evers's relative absence from the historical record. But more than half of these 89 documents (from the years 1954–1963) are mundane monthly reports to or business correspondence with the NAACP. Ten Evers speeches are included along with eight newspaper articles, four press releases, a telegram to Eisenhower and one to Kennedy, an NAACP newsletter, a "text fragment," a posthumous Life interview. There's no clue to the principle of selection. With the exception of two very brief notes to his family, there is no personal correspondence. This monument is a tomb ready for excavation by historians of the Civil Rights movement, but it's not for the ordinary reader looking for an autobiography of Medgar Evers. It reveals the quotidian work rather than the indomitable man. Publisher's Weekly |
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Kiini Ibura Salaam: The Dance of Love / There's No Racism Here? / Reflections on Fiji / Kiini Ibura Salaam Tells All from Mexico |
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Poems by Kalamu : Govern Yrself Accordingly / You Can’t Survive on Salt Water / If You’re Still the Same Afterwards . . . / Be About Beauty / Flying Over America |
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Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage By Rick Stengel Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man and became a cherished friend and colleague. In Mandela’s Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which “the grandfather of South Africa” was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why courage is more than the absence of fear, why we should keep our rivals close, why the answer is not always either/or but often “both,” how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfaction—our own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable stories—of Mandela’s childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the twenty-seven-year imprisonment that could not break him, and of his new and fulfilling marriage at the age of eighty. |
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Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval,"Night in Tunisia" / gang starr— jazz thing /ALICE COLTRANE—Something About John Coltrane |
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Leadership without a Moral Purpose A Critical Analysis of Nigerian Politics and Administration (with emphasis on the Obasanjo Administration, 2003-2007) By Victor E. Dike |
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| SNCC Freedom Singers: If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus / Keep Your Eyes on the Prize / This Little Light of Mine / Nobody Gonna' Turn Me Round |
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Memoir of My Association With Eldridge Cleaver By
Marvin X
Marvin X Celebrates
His 65th Birthday
On May 29,
2009 / contact:
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We Are A Dancing People / Leslie Garland Bolling / Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! / Badge of Honor: Coming of Age |
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The Assassination of Fred Hampton How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther By Jeffrey Haas It’s around 7:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, and attorney Jeff Haas is in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton’s fiancée. She is describing how the police pulled her from the room as Fred lay unconscious on their bed. She heard one officer say, “He’s still alive.” She then heard two shots. A second officer said, “He’s good and dead now.” She looks at Jeff and asks, “What can you do?” The Assassination of Fred Hampton is Haas’s personal account of how he and People’s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton’s assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. Not only a story of justice delivered, the book puts Hampton in a new light as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration in the fight against injustice. / Also Toward Freedom |
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Poet, Activist, Sonia Sanchez Reading Toni Cade Bambara / Kalamu ya Salaam Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara "I like your Christ but I don't like your Christians, your Christians are so unlike your Christ"—Gandhi |
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A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do By Gabriel Thompson Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants, who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. He stooped over lettuce fields in Arizona, and worked the graveyard shift at a chicken slaughterhouse in rural Alabama. . . . Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting, and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants, and desperate US citizens alike, forced to live with chronic pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. Gabriel Thompson has contributed to New York, The Nation, New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, In These Times and others. He is the recipient of the Richard J. Margolis Award, the Studs Terkel Media Award, and a collective Sidney Hillman Award. His writings are collected at Where The Silence Is . |
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The 10 Best Black Books of 2007 / The 10 Best Black Books of 2008 (Kam Williams) |
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America Is on Fire and Crumbling By Bill Goodin billgoodin@verizon.net Bill Goodwin, an impasssioned activist, poet, and author speaks out against corruption in the government and religious institutions. He sounds the alarm for church leaders, politicians, prisoners and racists, warning of America's crumbling in the blazes of sin. Goodin has written this powerful warning to the world and its people. he is author of the books, It Is Now Time, Breaking the Politics Chains, and Before I Die. |
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A Remarkably-Revealing, Evocative, Fully Humanizing Opus Kam Williams Interviews Condi and Reviews Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family By Condoleezza Rice |
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Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries / Public Education in Sussex County / The Official History of Jerusalem Baptist Church Fraternal Lodges Developing & Expanding the Village in Rural Southern Virginia / Stith-Mason Family Reunion / Rainbow Tea at Jerusalem Commonwealth of Virginia Expresses Profound Regret / Virginia Prohibits the Teaching of Slaves, Free Negroes, or Mulattoes to Read or Write, 1831 The Origin of Violence in Virginia: A Brief History
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The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures |
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Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage By Rick Stengel Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man and became a cherished friend and colleague. In Mandela’s Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which “the grandfather of South Africa” was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why courage is more than the absence of fear, why we should keep our rivals close, why the answer is not always either/or but often “both,” how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfaction—our own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable stories—of Mandela’s childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the twenty-seven-year imprisonment that could not break him, and of his new and fulfilling marriage at the age of eighty. |
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Bill Moyers Journal: Gretchen Morgenson (video) / Bill Moyers Journal: Gretchen Morgenson (transcript) / |
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By Nnedi Okorafor Well-known for young adult novels (The Shadow Speaks; Zahrah the Windseeker), Okorafor sets this emotionally fraught tale in post apocalyptic Saharan Africa. The young sorceress Onyesonwu—whose name means “Who fears death?”—was born Ewu, bearing a mixture of her mother's features and those of the man who raped her mother and left her for dead in the desert. As Onyesonwu grows into her powers, it becomes clear that her fate is mingled with the fate of her people, the oppressed Okeke, and that to achieve her destiny, she must die. Okorafor examines a host of evils in her chillingly realistic tale—gender and racial inequality share top billing, along with female genital mutilation and complacency in the face of destructive tradition—and winds these disparate concepts together into a fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling |
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Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries / Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White / The Official History of Jerusalem Baptist Church |
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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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Kirk Franklin: Revolution / Declaration (This Is It!) / Lean On Me / September / Imagine Me / Why We Sing / More than I Can Bare |
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The 10 Best Black Books of 2008 (Non-Fiction) By Kam Williams The 10 Best Black Books of 2007 From Orenthal to Obama: Who Has the Juice? By E. Ethelbert Miller E-Notes |
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Al Green - Could I Be The One (Hi 1975) / Senor Blues Silver Horace 1959 / Horace Silver "Filthy McNasty" / |
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans By Louis Armstrong "In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys would drink and fight one another like circle saws. Bottles would come flying over the bandstand like crazy, and there was lots of just plain common shooting and cutting. But somehow all that jive didn't faze me at all, I was so happy to have some place to blow my horn." So says Louis Armstrong about just one of the places he grew up in, a tough kid who also happened to be a musical genius. This story of his early life, concluding with his departure to Chicago to play with his boyhood idol King Oliver, is a fascinating document. Contrary to popular belief, it turns out that life in New Orleans was an amazingly eventful and a basically happy experience for Louis Armstrong-and he ought to know-for in no other city in the world at the time could a boy discover and learn about the music that he loved, for this was New Orleans, and he was Louis Armstrong. |
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The Black Experience in America is Unique / The Fact of Blackness (1952) By Frantz Fanon / Election Day Returns / Emerge & See by Tony Medina |
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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867 -- I became aware of Rudy Lewis’ labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaam’s e-drum listserv. As soon as I saw the title of the journal I knew it was about Black folks, and the power of the written word. A quick click took me into a journal that’s long on creativity, highlighting well-known, little known, and a little known writers, and commitment to the empowerment of Black folks. I contacted Rudy to ask if he’d consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after I’d forwarded some poems to him—they were part of ChickenBones. What I didn’t know was that this journal has been surviving for the last five years with very little outside financial support. . . If we want journals like this to “thrive” we need to support them with more than our website hits, praise, and submissions for publication consideration. —Peace,
Mary E. Weems (January 2007)
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Dog-Heart, A Novel by Diana McCaulay —the tale of a child caught in the clash between the two Jamaicas The novel deals seriously with issues of race, class, taking responsibility for social change and the complexity of relationships between people of different backgrounds. By telling the story in the voice of both the boy, Dexter and the woman, Sahara, Dog-Heart effortlessly highlights the “two Jamaicas” that coexist in one small space. . . . Diana McCaulay is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jamaica Environment Trust, and is an outspoken advocate for Jamaica’s natural environment. She also wrote a popular opinion column for the Gleaner for many years and her short stories have been published by the journal Caribbean Writer. She writes a blog called SnailWriter . . . |
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Books by Cornel West Democracy Matters: The Fight Against Imperialism / Race Matters / Cornel West Reader / The Future of the Race The American Evasion of Philosophy / African American Religious Thought / The War Against Parents The African American Century / White on White / Black on Black / Prophesy Deliverance / The Soul Knows No Bars Related files: Cornel West Moves to Princeton West Cites Reason For Quitting Cornel West: An Editorial Pass the Mic |
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Holy Word I: Lamentations, The Sorrows of US Slaves By Orisha Kammefa This is Orisha Kammefa's first book, a three chapter photodocument of what will ultimately be a four-book set. She reviews coverage of the pro-Black activities she initiated at the Maryland Department of Agriculture and notes her “can do” performance rating. She then revisits her miraculous life in Senegal and The Gambia, including her exciting name correction to “Kammefa!” Despondent back here in the usa, she concludes by probing her divorced husband’s “Spiritual Gifts” (p.73) about enslavement’s deadly HATE and vows to regain our pre-slavery lively LOVE! Transforming from scared to Sacred following her sojourn to Mama Afrika in 1988, she began to restore her Soul by Holy Kissing to counteract the ass kissing status quo and by writing Epistles (Sacred letters) to chronicle her efforts on behalf of us “protected class” persons! Contact for Orisha Kammefa: 410-499-2555 or voodoolady@verizon.net |
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"Bring me champagne when I’m thirsty, Bring me reefer when I want to get high"—Muddy Waters / Poetric Tribute to John Coltrane |
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Gray-Haired Witnesses for Justice / Modern Day Lynching of the Scott Sisters of Mississippi / Free The Scott Sisters / People Get Ready (alicia keys) |
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The Weight and Substance of A Father's Law Book Review by Jerry W. Ward, Jr. |
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Read A Book - Get Crunk about Reading / Read A Book (Cartoon) / Bomani "D'Mite" Armah - Read a Book / Read a Book OKAYY!!! / CNN interview
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Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can't Win Interview with Kam Williams |
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A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates Edited by Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George |
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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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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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A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago’s Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond By Craig Robinson Book Review by Kam Williams |
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Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction Edited by Chris Green, Rachel Rubin, and James Smethurst |
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Books by Houston Baker, Jr.-- Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader / Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s / Black Studies, Rap and the Academy Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Workings of the Sprit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing / Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature Files: Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Atlanta Exposition Address |
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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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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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Lynched Mau Mau Leader Dedan Kimathi Honored with Statue in Nairobi -- His Remains Have Yet To Be Found |
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| Clarence J. Munford -- (files) N'COBRA / Atlantic Slave Traffic / Race and Reparations / Benefits of Whiteness / Atlantic Slave Traffic / Boukman and His Comrades // (Books) -- Production relations, class and Black liberation: A Marxist perspective in Afro-American studies (1978) / The Black Ordeal of Slavery and Slave Trading in the French West Indies 1625-1715 (1991) / Race and Reparations: A Black Perspective for the 21st Century (1996) / Race and Civilization: The Rebirth of Black Centrality (2003) |
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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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Cuba: A BookList -- The Autobiography of a Slave / Bridges to Cuba/Puentes a Cuba / Fidel Castro and the Quest for a Revolutionary Culture in Cuba Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century / Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon / Caliban and Other Essays In the Spirit of Wandering Teachers: Cuban Literacy Campaign / Santeria Aesthetics / Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel / Man-making Words /Afro-Cuban Voices Nicolas Guillen: Popular Poet of the Caribbean / The Altar of My Soul: The Living Tradition of Santeria / Cuba: After the Revolution |
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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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Mutabaruka: Reggae Sunsplash-1982 / it no good(to stay in a white man country too long /dispel the lie / Spirituality / Blacks In Amerika |
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Mutabaruka: Live 1984 / I Am The Man / Johnny Drughead 198X / Butta Pan Kulcha / Whey Mi Belang / |
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Clarence Thomas the 'Anti-Black' By BAR executive editor Glen Ford |
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Check out ASILI's Extraordinary Walls of Respect (Photos) Celebrating Black Writers |
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Marxist critical theory and analysis -- Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1977). / Fredric Jameson. Marxism and Form: Twentieth Century Dialectical Theories of Literature (Princeton University Press, 1971) / Eagleton, Terry. Marxism and Literary Criticism (Routledge, 1976) |
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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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The Ground on Which I Stand Professor Sandra Shannon Situating August Wilson The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson |
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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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Lessons from France Tram Nguyen Interviews Brima Conteh |
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier By Ishmael Beah |
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Fanon: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman / The Wretched of the Earth / We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For / Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher |
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The Omni-Americans / An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles / Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling / Black Fire: An Anthology |
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Jimmy Carter's White House Diary An Interview and Book Review by Kam Williams |
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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
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The Achievements of Elijah Muhammad Message to the Blackman in America (1997) / How to Eat to Live, Book 1 (1997) / How to Eat to Live, Book 2 (1997) Yakub: The Father of Mankind (2002) / The True history of Master Fard Muhammad (1997) The History of Jesus' Bith, Death and What It Means to You and Me (1996) / The Secrets of Freemasonry (1997) The Theology of Time (The Secrets of Time) (2004) / The Mother Plane (1996) |
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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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Remembering June Jordan 1936-2002 -- Books, Bio, and Poems |
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Books on --
A Theology of Obligation:
The Poor & Oppressed in the Pentateuch
Option for the Poor:
Challenge
to the Rich Countries
(1986) /
The
Good News
to the Poor: The Challenge of the Poor in History of the Towards a Church of the Poor: The Work of an Ecumenical Group on the Church and the Poor (1981) Champions of the Poor: The Economic Consequences of Judeo-Christian Values (1998) The Social Vision of the Hebrew Bible: A Theological Introduction (2001) Bible of the Oppressed (1982) |
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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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| 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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Tales of the Out & the Gone Baraka Bio / Amiri Baraka Table New Work by Baraka (Black World, 1973) / Something in the Way of Things (In Town) |
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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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Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry A Critical History by Eugene B. Redmond |
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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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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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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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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 Arna Bontemps Files: A Black Man Thinks of Reaping / Southern Mansion By Arna Bontemps / Illinois WPA / Advises Christian on a Rosenwald /Acknowledges Documents Books: God Sends Sunday: Novel Black Thunder, Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800 / Anyplace But Here / The Harlem Renaissance Remembered The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949 / Bontemps, American Negro Poetry / Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967 The Old South;: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties / The Story of the Jubilee Singers / Great Slave Narratives |
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The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II By Douglas A. Blackmun Wall Street Journal bureau chief Blackmon gives a groundbreaking and disturbing account of a sordid chapter in American history—the lease (essentially the sale) of convicts to commercial interests between the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th. Usually, the criminal offense was loosely defined vagrancy or even changing employers without permission. The initial sentence was brutal enough; the actual penalty, reserved almost exclusively for black men, was a form of slavery in one of hundreds of forced labor camps operated by state and county governments, large corporations, small time entrepreneurs and provincial farmers. Into this history, Blackmon weaves the story of Green Cottenham, who was charged with riding a freight train without a ticket, in 1908 and was sentenced to three months of hard labor for Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. Cottenham's sentence was extended an additional three months and six days because he was unable to pay fines then leveraged on criminals. Blackmon's book reveals in devastating detail the legal and commercial forces that created this neoslavery along with deeply moving and totally appalling personal testimonies of survivors |
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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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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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Books by Haki Madhubuti -- The Poetry of Don L. Lee Think Black / Black Pride / We Walk the Way of the New World / Directionscore: Selected and New Poems / To Gwen with Love Dynamite Voices I: Black Poets of the 1960s / Book of Life / From Plan to Planet / Enemies: The Clash of Races Say That the River Turns: The Impact of Gwendolyn Brooks / Killing Memory, Seeking Ancestors / Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? Why L.A. Happened: Implications of the `92 Los Angeles Rebellion / Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption |
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Amiri Baraka Files: Baraka Bio Tales of the Out & the Gone A Political Evolution A BAM Roll Call Black Art The Revolutionary Theatre Black Dada Nihilimus Somebody Blew Up America Baraka on who blew up america Praise & Support of Baraka For Baraka Daughter Killed Remembering Shani Home Going Celebration The Essence of Reparations and Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems |
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Amiri Baraka: A Selected Bibliography Poetry Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note (1961) / The Dead Lecturer (1964) / Black Art (1969) / Black Magic: Collected Poetry 1961-1967 (1969) It's Nation Time (1970) / Spirit Reach (1972) / Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka (1979) /Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women (1983) The Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader (1991) ed. William J. Harris / Wise Why's Y's: The Griot's Tale (1995) Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (1961-1995) (1995) / Funk Lore: New Poems (1984-1995) (1996) / Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems (2003)
Prose Black Music / Home: Social Essays (1966) / Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1969) Raise, Race, Rays, Raze: Essays Since 1965 (1971) Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974-1979 (1984) / Autobiography of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka (1984) / The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues (1987) Conversations with Amiri Baraka (1994) Eulogies (1996) ed. Michael Schwartz / Jesse Jackson & Black People (1996)
Drama The Baptism and The Toilet (1967) / Four Black Revolutionary Plays, All Praises to the Black Man (1969)
Fiction The System of Dante's Hell (1965) / Tales (1967) / Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka / 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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Books by Albert Murray -- South to a Very Old Place / Stomping the Blues / Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity / Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie Train Whistle Guitar: A Novel / The Hero and the Blues / Conversations with Albert Murray / The Magic Keys / Seven League Boots / The Spyglass Tree The Blue Devils of Nada: A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement / File: A Summer Reading of Albert Murray (Lewis) |
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
By Jonathan Scott |
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Scott files: Socialist
Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes
The Niggerization of Palestine
The Staying Power of Rap
Remembering to Not Forget |
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Books on the Blues -- Houston A. Baker Jr., Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1987) Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson, Negro Workaday Songs (1926) / Samuel Charters, The Country Blues (1959) and The Poetry of the Blues (1963) Steven Calt, The Country Blues Songbook (1973) / Charles Keil, Urban Blues (1966) / Peter Guralnick, Feel Like Going Home (1971) LeRoi Jones, Blues People (1963) / Steven Tracy, Langston Hughes and the Blues (2001) / Paul Oliver The Story Of The Blues Jeff Todd Titon, Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (1995) and Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era W. C. Handy. Father of the Blues: An Autobiography / Robert Palmer, Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta David Evans Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues / Eric Sackheim, The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters Houston A. Baker Jr., Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1987) / Jonathan Scott, Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes |
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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 |
| Books on Religion Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, gender, and community in Early African American Writings (Review) Brian K. Blount, Cultural Interpretations: Reorienting New Testament Criticism ( Review) Brian K. Blount, Then the Whisper Put on Flesh: New Testament Ethics an African American Context (Review) Freddie C. Colston, ed., Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Speaks: Representative Speeches of a Great American Orator (Review) (Contents ) James H. Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation (Review) / James H. Cone, God of the Oppressed (Review) James H. Cone, The Spiritual and the Blues: An Interpretation (Review) Miguel A. De La Torre, The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical Sketch (Review) Table of Contents Foreword Ajiaco Christianity Miguel A. De La Torre, Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America (Review) Charles R. Foster & Fred Smith, Black Religious Experience: Conversations on Double Consciousness and the Work of Grant Shockle (Review) Shockley Vita Justo L. Gonzalez, Manana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective (Review) Robert E. Hood, Begrimed and Black: Color Prejudice and the Religious Roots of Racism (Review) Biblio for B and B Intro Contents of B and B Daedalus Contents Daedalus Preface Daedalus Contributors Stephen Haynes, Noah's Curse The Biblical Justification for Slavery in America (Review) Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Soul Pearls: Worship Resources for the Black Church (Review) Contents Anthony B. Pinn, Fortress Introduction to Black Church History (Review) Anthony B. Pinn, By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism (Review) Anthony B. Pinn, Moral Evil and Redemption Suffering: A History of Theodicy in African-American Religious Thought (Review)
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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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Poems by Drisana Deborah Jack |
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Unburnable By Marie-Elena John / Densie Nichols Freshwater Road |
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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 |
| Encounter of Europe and Native American -- Files:
Aristotle
and America to 1550 /
Pre-Reformation
Religious Ideas
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Indian Question Books: The Columbian Exchange (2003) / Europe and the People without History (1982) / Aristotle and the American Indians (1959) / The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (1982) / The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (1984) / Genesis (1985), Faces and Masks (1987), and Century of the Wind (1988) / The Vision of the Vanquished (1977) / Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (1984) / Huarochiri: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule (1984) / Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, 18th to 20th Centuries (1987) / Riot, Rebellion and Revolution: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico (1988) / Indian & Jesuit A Seventh Century Encounter (1982) / Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis (1988) / The first social experiments in America: A study in the development of Spanish Indian policy in the sixteenth century (1964) |
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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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Books by Eldridge Cleaver: Soul on Ice / Post-Prison Writings and Speeches / Target Zero; A Life in Writing / Conversation with Eldridge Cleaver Being Black / Education and Revolution / Eldridge Cleaver / Eldridge Cleaver Is Free / Related files: Cleaver Bio Retrospective on Soul on Ice By Sharif Cleaver Speaks to Skip Gates Tearing the Goats Flesh / Ishmael Reed's Preface Maxwell Geismar's "Introduction" / Black Panther Platform & Program / Daniel Berrigan on Cleaver |
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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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Uncle Jeff and His Contempos The Eternal Linkage of Literature and Society
Creative Conflict in African-American Thought Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey By Wilson Jeremiah Moses |
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The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson by Sandra Shannon |
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Abby Arthur Johnson & R.M. Johnson’s Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of African-American Magazines . . . Adelaide M Cromwell., The Other Brahmins : Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750-1950. Adolph Reed Jr., Stirrings in the Jug (Review) Albert Murray, The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture (1970) (Review) Aldon Lynn Nielson, Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism Amiri Baraka andLarry Neal, Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (Review) Amiri Baraka, Tales of the Out & The Gone: Short Stories (Review) Carol Cooper, Pop Culture Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race: Selected Critical Essays 1979 to 2001 (Review) Carol E. Henderson, James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical And Critical Essays. Peter Lang Publishing, 2006. Caroline Maun, The Sleeping (Review)-- ChickenBones Poetry Book for 2006 (read also the poems Katrina Faceless / The Red Rat Snake / Colors) Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore (Review) (Interview with Caryl Phillips) Charles A. Cerami. Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot (Review) Chester Himes, The Quality of Hurt (Review) Dan Poynter, The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 15th Edition (Paperback) Dudley Randall. The Black Poets. (Review) Eugene B. Redmond. Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Critical History (Review) Frank M. Snowden Jr ., Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience. Belknap Press, 2005. (Review) Frank M. Snowden Jr ., Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks. Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 1991 (Review) George Kent, Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture (Review) Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Houston A. Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (Review) (Read also, Atlanta Exposition Address) James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain. Penguin Books New Ed, 2001 (Review) James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. Vintage; Reissue edition, 1992 (Review) James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son. Beacon Press; Reissue edition 1984 (Review) James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk. Vintage; Reprint edition, 2006 (Review) James Edward Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (Review) Jerry W., Ward, Jr., editor , Trouble the Water (Review) John H. Bracey, Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick. Black Nationalism in America. (Review) John A. Williams and Charles F. Harris, Amistad 2 (Review) Jonathan Scott Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes. (Review) Joyce E. King, Black Education (Review) Julius E. Thompson. Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995 (Review) Kalamu ya Salaam with Kwame Alexander, eds. 360° A Revolution of Black Poets. (Review) Kwame Dawes, Wisteria, Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country (Review) (Tornado Child Black Funk Vengeance) Langston Hughes, ed., New Negro Poets U.S.A. (Review) Lasana Sekou, The Salt Reaper – Poems from the Flats (Review) Louis Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Excerpts) Louis Reyes Rivera, Scattered Scripture (Review) Marvin X , Land of My Daughters ChickenBones Poetry Book 2005 (Review) (read also poem, What if there was no God but God) Miriam DeCosta-Willis, The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells (Review) Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The Prophet of Zongo Street (Review)
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Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005) Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on You (Review) Ronald W. Walters, White Nationalism Black Interests (Review ) Rose Ure Mezu , Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (Review )(read also, Africana Women A History of Africana Women's Literature) Tom Dent, Southern Journey (Review) Tony Bolden, The Book of African-American Women: 150 Crusaders, Creators, and Uplifters. Tram Nguyen, We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11 (Commentary) Wilson Moses, Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (Review) Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence (also Bio & Review The Legend of the Saifs Night of the Giants) |
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