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Books by Eugene Redmond
Sides of the River (1969)
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Sentry of the
Four Golden Pillars (1970) /
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
(1971) /
Songs
from an Afro/Phone (1972)
In
a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) /
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) /
Drumvoices
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Kwanzaa 2009
Pre-Kwanzaa Expo,
Celebration Set For Dec. 15 In East St. Louis
(East Saint Louis, Ill.) The Eugene B. Redmond (EBR)
Writers Club and Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville will present their 23rd annual holiday
family Kwanzaa celebration Tuesday, Dec. 15, in Room
2083 of Building B on the Higher Education Campus, 601
J.R. Thompson Drive, East St. Louis.
Kwanzaa: A (Free) Community Celebration begins at 6 p.m.
and features a “Kwansaba Candle-lighting Ritual” with
the Soular Systems Ensemble—Roscoe Crenshaw, Susan
Lively, Charlois Lumpkin, Patricia Merritt, Darlene Roy,
and Treasure Williams—under the leadership of Eugene B.
Redmond, a professor emeritus of English Language and
Literature at SIUE, poet laureate of East St. Louis, and
co-founder of the EBR Writers Club.
The evening also includes “A Suite of Kwansabas for
2009,” an open mic session, and a bazaar with books,
gifts and fabrics for purchase. The kwansaba, invented
by the Writers Club in 1995, is a poetic form consisting
of seven lines of seven words each with no word
containing more than seven letters. Exceptions to the
seven-letter (maximum) rule are proper nouns and some
foreign words.
For more information about the event, call the SIUE
Department of English Language and Literature, (618)
650-3991, or write EBR Writers Club, P.O. Box 6165, East
St. Louis, IL 62202-6165. The group co-publishes
Drumvoices Revue, a multicultural literary journal, with
SIUE. Club trustees include noted authors, artists and
poets Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Walter
Mosley, Quincy Troupe and Dr. Lena Weathers. Past
trustees included late celebrated authors/institution
builders Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998, Gwendolyn
Brooks (1917-2000), Raymond Patterson (1929-2001), and
Barbara A. Teer (1937-2008).
The event is cosponsored by the East St. Louis Cultural
Revival Campaign Committee, Drumvoices Revue, the Black
River Writers Press, and Renaissance Literary Arts
Press.
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Taking the Blues Back Home
By Jayne Cortez
The blues that came to me
from the slave dungeons
the blues that came to me
from the death trails
the blues that came to me
from my ancestors
the blues that came to me
in a spell that tells me
through birth that I'm the owner
of the blues
from a long time ago |
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
you happy." |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
Haiti
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