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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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My Long Trip Home A Family Memoir (Mark Whitaker) / Subsidising Fraud, Lies & Blood (Babalola) / Cuba Gooding, Jr. in Red Tails (Kam Williams) With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful (Greenwald) |
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Basil Davidson's "Africa Series": Different But Equal / Mastering A Continent / Caravans of Gold / The King and the City / The Bible and The Gun |
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Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics By Steven J. Ross In Hollywood Left and Right, Steven J. Ross tells a story that has escaped public attention: the emergence of Hollywood as a vital center of political life and the important role that movie stars have played in shaping the course of American politics. Ever since the film industry relocated to Hollywood early in the twentieth century, it has had an outsized influence on American politics. Through compelling larger-than-life figures in American cinema—Charlie Chaplin, Louis B. Mayer, Edward G. Robinson, George Murphy, Ronald Reagan, Harry Belafonte, Jane Fonda, Charlton Heston, Warren Beatty, and Arnold Schwarzenegger—Hollywood Left and Right reveals how the film industry's engagement in politics has been longer, deeper, and more varied than most people would imagine. As shown in alternating chapters, the Left and the Right each gained ascendancy in Tinseltown at different times. From Chaplin, whose movies almost always displayed his leftist convictions, to Schwarzenegger's nearly seamless transition from action blockbusters to the California governor's mansion, Steven J. Ross traces the intersection of Hollywood and political activism from the early twentieth century to the present. Hollywood Left and Right challenges the commonly held belief that Hollywood has always been a bastion of liberalism. |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays Edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars and creative writers from Africa and the Americas. Called one of two significant critical works on Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late 1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of Carter G. Woodson and Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an historical context for understanding 20th-century creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone writers, such as Cuban Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist, and scholar Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the significance of Negritude in Latin America. This collaborative text set the tone for later conferences in which writers and scholars worked together to promote, disseminate, and critique the literature of Spanish-speaking people of African descent. . . . Cited by a literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'." |
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Cornel West and the fight against injustice / Cornel West Calls Out Barack Obama / Worldwide Information Forum / Living large in an Apocalypse Bunker |
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Hopkins first African-American PhD By Keith Parent |
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Anthologies: New Negro Poets U.S.A. Black Fire The Black Poets Black Nationalism in America 360° A Revolution of Black Poets I am because we are and since we are therefore I am (The Soho of South Africa ) / The society made up of brothers and sisters provides strength. (Igbo of Nigeria) |
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The Cost of Lies -- America With Its Pants Down The Dark Side of Obedience Locked Up A Lie Unravels the World Lies Truth and Unwaged Housework |
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The Myth of Solitude: No Writer Is an Island / That Old Black Magic / Alabama / Clifford Brown: You Get Used to It / And Then They Laughed / James Baldwin: The Preacher Poet |
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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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How the FBI Sabotaged Black America / I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto / Civilians arm themselves to support Gaddafi / Vijay Prashad—The Darker Nations, Part 1 |
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Who Will Revere the Black Woman? (Abbey Lincoln) Divas on Screen Black Women in American Film By Mia Mask Book Review by Kam Williams
Rape: A Radical Analysis from an African-American Perspective Bibliophiles and Collectors of African Americana (Charles L. Blockson)
Ode to a Magic City Buddy Bolden in New Orleans / buddy bolden's blues legacy (Kalamu ya Salaam) |
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The Indignant Generation / Paul Mooney discusses racism in America / Paul Mooney—Nigger History Lesson / The Black version of Hollywood's Titantic |
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Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story / General Idi Amin Dada / Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series / Faith Ringgold, artist / Black Boy.mov |
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The Importance of an African Centered Education / HBCUs Table / The Return of the Nigger Breakers (interview Reed and Nelson)
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Madiba: The Life and Times of Nelson Mandela / Terry Callier—TimePeace / Introduction to Haiti (1942) / Haitian and Guadeloupe Revolutions 1791 |
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Lyfe Jennings—Hypothetically / Lyfe Jennings “Statistics” /Must be a God-Fearing Christian girl / AfroDeutsch Ayassi Tyron Ricketts / Ninja Say What?! |
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Larry Neal Speaks / The Negro as Author / I Tried to Be a Communist / César Vallejo / C K Williams / Clarence Major
Education and the Cataclysm in Haiti (Rea Dol) / Suffocating the poor: a modern parable (Johann Hari) / Create Dangerously (Albert Camus) |
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Johnny Cash—Cocaine Blues / Sam Chatmon Interview / Sam Chatmon—Sittin' on top of the World / Sam Chatmon—Aint Gone Kick It No More |
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Snoop Dogg ft Dr DRE & D'Angelo—Imagine / Trinity Roots—New Zealand / Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army on Wheels / A Different Kind of Blue |
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What’s Going On: Black Studies and the Arts Historically, Black artists and scholars have used their work to investigate and articulate the heart of the global Black experience. We seek work that addresses innovative ways visual art, music, poetry, literature, dance and other art forms critique, illuminate and/or bear witness to problems and solutions to critical issues in k-12 and postsecondary education. These issues include but are not limited to use of the arts as an integral part of the curriculum, to critique or explore the achievement gap, to report on the consequences of No Child Left Behind, use of the arts in Teacher Education programs, and the experiences of Black artist scholars in academia. We are interested in author's doing qualitative research using interpretive methods including auto/ethnography, ethnography, poetic inquiry, narrative, and ethnodrama; as well as interview and focus groups. What's Going On welcomes work from all educational disciplines and will also consider collaborative book projects on the cutting edge of crucial issues facing Black people today pertinent to the field. Help me spread the word about Peter Lang's, Black Studies and Critical Thinking (BSCT) series and contact me at mweems45@yahoo.com or mweems@jcu.edu with questions about What's Going On or to suggest folks who might be interested in submitting proposals. Also, note the other series editors and their areas below. Peace, Mary E. Weems, Series Editor, Black Studies and Critical Thinking, Peter Lang Publishing Other Series Editors
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Fanon: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman. A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) was a fierce, acute critic of racism and oppression. Born of African descent in Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought in defense of France during World War II but later against France in Algeria’s war for independence. His last book, The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, inspired leaders of diverse liberation movements: Steve Biko in South Africa, Che Guevara in Latin America, the Black Panthers in the States. Wideman’s novel is disguised as the project of a contemporary African American novelist, Thomas, who undertakes writing a life of Fanon. The result is an electrifying mix of perspectives, traveling from Manhattan to Paris to Algeria to Pittsburgh. Part whodunit, part screenplay, part love story, Fanon introduces the French film director Jean-Luc Godard to the ailing Mrs. Wideman in Homewood and chases the meaning of Fanon’s legacy through our violent, post-9/11 world, which seems determined to perpetuate the evils Fanon sought to rectify. |
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For Inner Light in a Time of Darkness By Alice Walker A compelling collection of talks, essays, poems and prose, this is a personal and inspiring exploration of the power of individuals and communities.' (4 stars)—Charlotte Noirthedge, Think Tank Drawing equally on Walker's spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments |
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Al Sharpton vs Tavis Smiley pt1 Barack Obama & the Black Agenda: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 / No You Can't (Featuring John Boehner) |
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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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Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923-2008) The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery Returning to the Sources |
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Eighty Moods of Maya (Edited by Howard Rambsy II) / Images and Homages: "Memwars" |
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Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth. Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher (2008)--Alain L. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology The New Negro, declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promoting, influencing, and sparring with such figures as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Lawrence, Richmond Barthé, William Grant Still, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, and John Dewey. The long-awaited first biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America’s cultural and intellectual life. Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke’s Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at Harvard—where William James helped spark his influential engagement with pragmatism—and his tenure as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The heart of their narrative illuminates Locke’s heady years in 1920s New York City and his forty-year career at Howard University, where he helped spearhead the adult education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of democracy. |
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Albert Murray on Ralph Ellison & the Aesthetics of Writing An interview by Kalamu ya Salaam |
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Africa Makes Some Noise—Documentary on contemporary music from Africa / Fela Kuti on Colonial mentality / Fela Kuti—Look and Laugh |
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American Literature as an Emerging Field Langston Hughes "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Poem / Interview: Malcolm X |
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Mona Lisa Saloy: Creative Writing at Dillard / Dillard Faculty Focus / English Faculty Focus Dillard / Dillard Writing Successes / Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours |
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A Shift in Direction at Howard (Dan Berrett) / The Myth of Charter Schools (Diane Ravitch) / Ishmael Reed and Multiculturalism |
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Claire Carew : Artist / My Thoughts on International Women’s Day The Negro Artist and Modern Art (Romare Bearden) |
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Climbing Malcolms Ladder /The Black Religious Crisis / A Theology of Obligation & Liberation / The Negro Church / Pan-Africanism and the Black Church Jane Musoke-Nteyafas WE BE BLACK PEOPLE REMEMBER: CHEIKH ANTA DIOP AFRO-DISIAC FORBIDDEN FRUIT Enough with the Poisonous Lyrics Where Is the Love of All Things African? African American Writers: Meet Rudolph Lewis Kiini Ibura Salaam Tells All from Mexico |
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Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance By Marshall Stearns and Jean Stearns Marshall Stearns, who taught college English, specializing in Chaucer, loved jazz, thought about jazz, taught about jazz, wrote about jazz, and, as the foundation of all this, took jazz seriously. His The Story of Jazz became a standard work in its field, and he then went on to document the dancing that went with the music. With his wife Jean, he spent seven years doing research, not only in libraries but among the living archives of dancers' memories. They conducted interviews with every jazz dancer they could find, at a time when jazz dancers seemed to be members of an endangered species.Now, thanks to Da Capo Press, Jazz Dance is again available, as a paperback ($16.95), augmented with a new foreword and afterword by Brenda Bufalino, artistic director of the American Tap Dance Orchestra. Although the book takes its subject only up to 1966—when Marshall Stearns died of a heart attack shortly after the manuscript was completed—it's still essential reading for anyone interested in jazz, in dance, and in the American musical theater.—FindArticles |
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Toward a Feminist Theology / How to Love a Thinking Woman / How To Love A Thinking Man / Land of My Daughters / To White Women Who Think Status and Standard Language / The Problem of "Settling" / Black Immigrants Deported / WHAT IF / Wish I Could Tell You the Truth |
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Anthologies: New Negro Poets U.S.A. Black Fire The Black Poets Black Nationalism in America 360° A Revolution of Black Poets I am because we are and since we are therefore I am (The Soho of South Africa ) / The society made up of brothers and sisters provides strength. (Igbo of Nigeria) |
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The Cost of Lies -- America With Its Pants Down The Dark Side of Obedience Locked Up A Lie Unravels the World Lies Truth and Unwaged Housework |
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MISSION WITHIN THE MISSION By Eusi Kwayana |
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St.Clair Bourne, Filmmaker, Dies at 64—St.Clair Bourne (1943-2007), a documentary filmmaker who recorded American black culture, produced portraits of eminent African-Americans and, in one stark film, drew a parallel between the civil rights movement and the “troubles” in Northern Ireland, died on Saturday (15 December) in Manhattan. He was 64 and lived in Brooklyn. I am proud to say that I know this brother and am sadden by news of his untimely transition. We met each other, I believe in New York City in the late sixties or early seventies, when we were beginning our “media” related lives. I’m not sure who introduced us, but from the beginning I knew I was in the presence of a really “special” human being. Somewhat self assured, St.Clair went on to create a significant body of work what will connect our people with their mighty history and greatness for generations to come. An article in the New York Times published Tuesday, December 18, 2007 providing greater detail includes a nice video short by photographer Chester Higgins, Jr. Now, St.Clair is beginning his journey amongst many of the ancestors whose lives he presented in his films. May they and the Creator treat him well. vernard r gray |
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ChickenBones Best Poetry Book of
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An Unmistakable Shade of Red &
The Obama Chronicles
New book of poems by Mary E.Weems Mary E. Weems Table Say it Loud: Poems about James Brown Mary Weems on YouTube Nomination |
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Ode to a Magic City |
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Most of the novel takes place as Rebekka lies dying, Lina cares for her, and Sorrow asserts herself—all three women remembering their lives before and with Vaark. But the heart of the novel is young Florens. She's sent off to find a blacksmith, a free black man who once worked on Vaark's property and may be able to heal Rebekka. For Florens, it's a chance not just to escape but to reunite with him. She propels herself through a frightening travail in the wilderness with an ardent, irrepressible monologue, much of it directed to her absent lover. Her voice is the most demanding but rewarding in the novel, thick with raw poetry and passion. "I never before see leaves make this much blood and brass," she says. "Color so loud it hurts the eye and for relief I must stare at the heavens high above the tree line." She's sometimes unhinged— sympathetic one moment, animalistic the next. "These careful words, closed up and wide open, will talk to themselves," Florens says, and in the most mesmerizing sections of the novel, all we can do is listen to her incantations, the voice of a young woman consumed with yearning. Amazon.com |
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Wounded in the House of a Friend Poems by Sonia Sanchez Reviewed by Marvin X Sonia Sanchez: Poet & Educator Sonia's Song Sonia Sanchez and Ten Grandmothers |
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Remembering Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) by Junious Ricardo Stanton "I might point out here that colonialism or imperialism, as the slave system of the West is called, is not something that is just confined to England or France or the United States. The interests in this country are in cahoots with the interests in France and the interests in Britain. It's one huge complex or combine, and it creates what's known not as the American power structure or the French power structure, but an international power structure. This [racist western] international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources."—Malcolm X |
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Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling Six Essays in Support of The Struggle To Smash Sexism/Develop Women By Kalamu ya Salaam "Revolutionary Struggle/Revolutionary Love" / Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling / Preface: It Aint Easy Debunking Myths / Rape: A Radical Analysis / "Women's Rights Are Human Rights" |
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ChickenBones Best Book of 2008 The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery Seeing Things from Inside the Circle Returning to the Sources / Imprisonment in Holding Cells at Tulane and Broad / Literary New Orleans |
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones / Biblical Scholars / ChickenBones Interviews / Depression Shopping List Your Whiteness is Showing (Tim Wise ) Lingering Issues in Achebe's Female Characterisation (Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye) Book Discussion: The Beautiful Struggle (video): Atlantic contributor Ta-Nehisi Coates reads passages Nuking Nagasaki & Hiroshima, Our Nuking Nevada / / Like a Tortoise Shell / Asa G. Hilliard III Obituary
The Exhilarating Generosity of Asa Hilliard / Slow Death in Gaza (Margaret Kimberley) "Djimbe Danse" Artwork (left) by Chuck Siler |
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Arthur Flowers--Mojo Rising -- 5th Movement Mojo Rising -- Reviews & 1st Movement Another Good Loving Blues Another Good Loving Blues Essay De Mojo Blues Rootwork and the Prophetic Impulse Up Against the Wall in Haiti Magical Negro The Root |
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The Sexual and Political Anorexia of the Black Woman (Julia Hare) Death by Love: A Play by Ayodele Nzinga Review by Marvin X The So-Called Negro -- Plato in the Classroom / Chaka Khan / Rufus—Tell Me Somethin' Good (1974) |
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How the Media Uses Blacks to Chastise Blacks The Colored Mind Doubles By Ishmael Reed |
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Livin' The Blues:Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet By Frank Marshall Davis Edited by John Edgar Tidwell |
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Pharoah Sanders—The Gathering / Pharoah Sanders:—Heart (Love) is a Melody of Time / The President's House: Freedom and Slavery / Kenyan Somalis facing Xenophobia |
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A personal remembrance of August Wilson By Dennis Leroy Moore |
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A political history of Africa since 1900—interactive / Fences Talk with Viola Davis andDenzel Washington / Louis Farrakhan Speaks Aboutt Gaddafi's Death / Assata Shakur Documentary |
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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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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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An Artistic Journey by Claire Carew |
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Langston Hughes: Life and Works in Celebration of Black Dignity (Arthur E.E. Smith) |
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One Writer' Legacy: Richard Wright and Our 21st Century By Jerry W. Ward, Jr. Dr. Jerry Ward Lectures on Richard Wright Homestretch to Richard Wright Centennial (Julia Wright) / The Saga of Bigger Thomas |
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Two Scholars Discuss Afrocentrism as A Racial Ideology: History & Ethics Wilson Jeremiah Moses & Cane Hope Felder |
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The Dark Role of Excess in the Literary Marketplace The Genesis of the Urban Street Literature Market and its Foundational Tropes of Black Excess By Keenan Norris |
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Another great library has burned down Murry N. DePillars, Ph.D. (1938 - 2008) |
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Trouble in Paradise (Mona Lisa Saloy) / The Propaganda of History / It's the Economy Stupid! (Rhonda Soto) |
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The Sisyphus Syndrome: A Jazz Opera by Amiri Baraka Music by David Murray / Choreography Traci Bartlow Review by Marvin X |
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The Black Arts Movement By James Edward Smethurst The Black Arts Movement (Highly Recommended, a Must Read) Global News:Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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Welfare Poets have been in existence since the Spring of 1990, when two Cornell
students came together to write poetry/rhymes of protest
and upliftment, accompanied by congas (percussions). A
band was created from this union with the purpose of
using culture as a tool of resistance, and in the summer
of 2000, the group released their first independent
album "Project Blues." The group plays Hip Hop with a
fusion of various styles from the Caribbean, including
Puerto Rico, Cuba and Jamaica.
Over their 15 plus years of existence, the Welfare Poets have been not only cultural activist, but they have been directly involved in efforts for social justice, most notably against police brutality, political prisoners, the colonial status of Puerto Rico and theU.S. Naval occupation of the island, environmental justice in New York City and elsewhere and the death penalty. Through teaching residencies and workshops, through activism around community struggles and through sharpedged performances of music that incorporates Hip Hop, Bomba y Plena, Latin Jazz and other rhythms, the Welfare Poets bring information and inspiration to those facing oppression and those fighting for liberation. Sak Pasé Welfare Poets |
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Luis
Alvarez.
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and
Resistance during World War II. (2008).
-- Flamboyant zoot
suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and
swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing,
unique patterns of speech, and even risqué
experimentation with gender and sexuality,
captivated the country's youth in the 1940s. The
Power of the Zoot is the first book to give
national consideration to this famous
phenomenon. Providing a new history of youth
culture based on rare, in-depth interviews with
former zoot-suiters, Luis Alvarez explores race,
region, and the politics of culture in urban
America during World War II. He argues that
Mexican American and African American youths,
along with many nisei and white youths, used
popular culture to oppose accepted modes of
youthful behavior, the dominance of white
middle-class norms, and expectations from within
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Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence
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Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006 By Esther Iverem—Reviewed by Kam Williams Do Me Twice: My Life after Islam A Memoir by Sonsyrea Tate / Women of a New Tribe By Jerry Taliaferro |
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J. Nash Porter was born 24 May 1942 (died 27 October 2007) in New Orleans and raised in an Uptown neighborhood surrounded by the sights and sounds of the urban streets. His career combines documentary and commercial photography, and photo-journalism. "Through the lens of my camera, I share with others the exciting tradition that I grew up with. Hopefully, I can ignite a spark of enthusiasm and bring about an awareness in other communities for the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians," said Porter. Formally trained at San Francisco State University and the University of California at Berkeley, Porter owned and operated a photography studio since 1972. Although his most prolific work was with the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians, his photographic exhibits encompass an amalgam of African American blues and jazz musicians, and traditional cultures of the American South, West Africa, and the Caribbean. Chuck Siler 2007>>> |
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Devil in a Blue Dress and Cinnamon Kiss An Exploration of African American Financial Insecurity and Its Impact on Psychological Development By Mimi Ferebee |
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Race or Over-Reaching or Gullibility or All Three?—Study after study show that minorities are more likely than whites to get subprime mortgages, which are high-cost loans made to people with poor credit. In its heyday earlier this decade, the subprime market was cheered as an avenue through which historically shut-out borrowers could get loans. That frequently meant minorities. So long as home prices rose, the subprime market seemed a positive example of how to increase home ownership, but as the housing market weakened this year, many began to question whether the loans were fairly priced. In September, the Federal Reserve released a study that found 52.8 percent of African-Americans got a high-cost home loan when they refinanced in 2006, compared to 37.7 percent of Latinos and just 25.7 percent of whites in the same year. A similar study by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known by its acronym ACORN, in September found the same pattern even when income was equal. Yahoo Kwanzaa by Chuck Siler------------------>>>>>>>>>>>>> |
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The Painting: "My Friend Yictove” By Bev Jenai |
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Documentary about Fred Mutebi’s artwork / Amiri Baraka: Evolution of a Revolutionary Poet / Demining not just a man's job / Interview Afro-Italian writer Igiaba Scego |
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Xmas Fifty Years Ago Devil's Got a Lien on My Soul A Discussion of "The Gift Outright" by Robert Frost" |
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The Situation of the Literary Arts in Sierra Leone By Arthur Edgar E Smith |
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Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies—born in the Bronx on 11 December 1922, died 22 August 2007 in Manhattan—taught for many years at Sarah Lawrence and the City College of New York, was also a past vice president of the PEN American Center. . . .Her parents, Isaac and the former Manya Ridnyik, were Ukrainian Jewish socialists who had been exiled by Czar Nicholas II — Isaac to Siberia, Manya to Germany. In 1906, they were able to leave for New York, where Isaac became a doctor. They had two children, and, approaching middle age, a third, Grace. . . .A “somewhat combative pacifist and cooperative anarchist,” Ms. Paley was a lifelong advocate of liberal causes. Her books include The Little Disturbances of Man (1959); Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1974); and Later the Same Day (1985). Her other books include a collection of essays, Just As I Thought (1998), and several volumes of poetry, among them Leaning Forward (1985) and New and Collected Poems (1991) and The Collected Stories (2007). NYTimes |
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Haiti Cherie—The director stressed that while the film's plot was fictional, the experiences suffered by the characters were completely realistic."I wanted to show what life is like in the 'bateyes'," Del Punta said, referring to the encampments set up on the outskirts of the sugar plantations where the cane cutters are forced to live. The workers live crowded together in the communal bateyes which usually lack running water, toilets, electricity and cooking facilities, as well as health care services and schools. There are some 400 bateyes scattered across the Dominican Republic. The cane cutters toil for up to 14 hours a day for what human rights organisation Amnesty International has termed "derisory wages" (typically the equivalent of $2.5 a day), while some are paid in vouchers which can only be used at plantation stores. The freedom of workers to leave the bateyes is also often restricted, turning them into virtual prisons that are patrolled by armed guards. A March 2007 report by Amnesty International detailed its long-standing concerns regarding discrimination, racism and xenophobia against Haitian migrants living in the neighbouring Dominican Republic and particularly its bateyes. Italian Film Helps Haitian Plantation Workers Life in Italy |
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Larry Neal
Interview in
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Chronology The Black Arts Movement
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Black Fire (Afterword)
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Kalamu ya Salaam: On Writing Haiku / Is A Sonnet More Than Fourteen Line Commentary on ChickenBones—I want to say that you have given a wonderful gift to humankind by establishing and maintaining ChickenBones. In the history of African American journals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, I rank your magazine with Negro Digest/Black World, which was "blessed" to have the financial backing of Johnson Publications. It is required reading for people who wish to be informed about the trajectories of thought in the contemporary world. It is a dynamic, growing textbook that ought to be used in courses on African American literature and culture. I am using it as an external link for the course I teach this semester on the Foundations of African American Literature. My students need to know that academic journals do not tell us everything. So, thank you Rudy for your gift to black folks and everybody else. Peace and brotherhood, Jerry Ward, Jr. (24 August 2008) A Letter to Warren on the "Contours of Racial Identity" from Dr. Joyce E. King Humility does not mean you think less of yourself—it means you think of yourself less. We are not here to earn God's love, we're here to spend it! The world is my country; to do good is my religion. No one shows a child the Supreme Being. Change how you see things, and the things you see will change.—Nana Yao Opare Dinizulu I |
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Edited by Langston Hughes Foreword by Gwendolyn Brooks Indiana University Press, Bloomington & London Eighth Printing 1960, Copyright 1964 |
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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 Douglas was the Norman Rockwell of the ghetto, concentrating on the poor and oppressed. Departing from the WPA/social realist style of portraying poor people, which can be perceived as voyeuristic and patronizing, Douglas’s energetic drawings showed respect and action. He maintained poor people’s dignity while graphically illustrating harsh situations.—Wikipedia |
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a belated note to the editors of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature By Alvin Aubert |
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Black Theatre: Ed Bullins Chronology Interview with Ed Bullins The Ground on Which I Stand Professor Sandra Shannon Situating August Wilson The Dramatic Vision of August Wilson Black Art The Revolutionary Theatre
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Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes by Jonathan Scott
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Dog's Day -- a belated note to the editors of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Alvin Aubert |
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Region Sparkles With Katherine Dunham’s ‘Leg-a-cy’ Amidst Renewal of Her ‘Vision’ Katherine Dunham: A Familial Memorial Celebration East St. Louis Plans Big Tribute to Katherine Dunham June 22 Lincoln Middle School Gymnasium 12 South 10th Street — noon to 3 pm |
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Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture By George Kent |
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The Negro as Author Letters of H. L. Mencken By H.L. Mencken By Milton Meltzer |
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An Archival Search for Sterling Brown Maria Syphax, Historical Revision, or a Communist Plot |
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