Amiri Baraka Bio

     Drama Critique

     The Revolutionary Theatre 

     LeRoi Jones: Pursued by the Furies

Death of Daughter

     Home-Going Celebration for Daughter of Amina & Amiri Baraka by Jamie Walker

     Poems of Remembrance by Marvin X

     Poet Amiri Baraka's Daughter Killed

     New Poetry Books

      Reviews of Two New Books

     Poems

     Black Art

     Somebody Blew Up America

          Responses to Baraka's Removal as Poet Laureate

          The Battle is on to Save

          Baraka's Statement of Defense

          For Baraka

          Message from Amiri Baraka 

          New Jersey Govt. Moves to Remove Poet Laureate

          Praise & Support of Baraka

          Will Not Apologize, Will Not Resign

Arna Bontemps

     Anyplace But Here  (Preface)

    Centennial Celebration

     Southern Mansion 

Arthur Graham

     Bio & Interview  

     Image Coverage

     The Manichean Leitmotif    

The Birth of a Nation  A Racist American Epic (Amin Sharif)

Bernard Hoyes

     Jamaican Sources and African American Visions The Art of Bernard Hoyes by Paul Von Blum, J.D.

Bob Kaufman

     Bob Kaufman (1925-1986)  

     Letter to Bob Kaufman

Carrie Mae Weems Photographer (1953-   )

Chester Himes

     Chester Himes' Call for a Negro Revolution!!!  By Amin Sharif

     Negro Martyrs Are Needed by Chester Himes

Claudia Tate

     Freud and the Negro  

      Professor Claudia Tate  

Countee Cullen (1903-1946)  Harlem Renaissance Poet

Dennis LeRoy Moore

     Anthology Film Archives

     Best Black Movie    

     Dennis in Charlotte

     Dennis Leroy Moore 

     Exposing the Black Man's Psyche

     Imagenation

     Miami Black Film Festival 

     Most Daring Film Out Right Now        

     The Pushkin Effect 

     Strong Black Atavistic Image 

Eldridge Cleaver

     Black Panther Platform & Program 

     Eldridg Cleaver Bio 

     Cleaver Speaks to Skip Gates  

     Daniel Berrigan on Cleaver  

     Ishmael Reed's Preface  

     Maxwell Geismar's "Introduction"  

     Soul on Ice by Amin Sharif (a review)

     Tearing the Goats Flesh  

Ernest Withers--Civil Rights Photographer

Film & TV Review   See Also Kam Williams Table 

          The African Studies Film Festival Program at Morgan

          As An Act of Protest :  Dennis Leroy Moore Interview Dennis Leroy Moore Bio

          Anthology Film Archives  Exposing the Black Man's Psyche Best Black Movie   

          Most Daring Film Out Right Now   Strong Black Atavistic Image

          Antwone Fisher -- The Movie  by Kwaku Person-Lynn, Ph.D.

          Bringing Down The House A Film Critique By Junious Ricardo Stanton

          Daughter from Danang The Imperial Camera Lens as Documentary Form By Soo Na  

          Deacons for Defense   A Review of the Film by Amin Sharif

          Exploring Sexuality from a Black Perspective by Rudolph Lewis

          Good Looks! Programming of Interest to African-Americans! by Amin Sharif

          Hooked: The Legend of Demetrius 'Hook'  Mitchel (Documentary)

          I Couldn't Find Jesus at the Box Office A Review of The Passion of Christ by John Sankofa 

          Maibu's Most Wanted, The Beat Goes On  By Junious Ricardo Stanton

          Maangamizi (the Ancient One) Review by Marvin X

          The Pushkin Effect by Rome Canaal

          Save Me from All These Pimps by Esther Iverem

          The Right Time: Lesbian and Bisexual Characters in Black Movies  by Sarah Warn

          Tears of the Sun: Movie or Propaganda by Bakari Akil II

Gwendolyn Brooks

     Black Love 

     Content of In Montgomery

     Duke Ellington

     Gottschalk   

     Gwendolyn Brooks Bio  

     In Montgomery and Other Poems By Gwendolyn Brooks

Haki Madhubuti (Don L. Lee)

     Black Male Development Tour

     From A Black Perspective: The Poetry of Don L. Lee by Paula Giddings

     Haki Madhubuti Bio    

     Hard Truths  

Harold Cruse  

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual  

Henry Dumas

     Julius Lester Review  

     J Wright Introduction

     Play Ebony  Play Ivory by Henry Dumas

James Baldwin

     Call for Papers:  Go Tell It on the Mountain

     Fire Last Time (Gates)

     Hughes Reviews Notes of a Native Son

      If Beale Street Could Talk  By James Baldwin

    James Baldwin Bio 

     James Baldwin's Jeremiad [Or Baldwinism Gone Awry] By Albert B. Southwick

     Go Tell It on the Mountain  by James Baldwin  Reviewed by T.E. Cassidy

     Rainer Reviews Notes of Native Son    

     Sermon and Blues By James Baldwin

John Greenleaf Whittier

     The Christian Slave  

     New Hampshire

John Maxwell

     John Maxwell Table  

John Oliver Killens

     Contents of Liberation Memories 

     Interview with Keith Gilyard on Liberation Memories  

     Killens "Literary Heroes"

     Lest We Forget Killens (by Rivera)

     Memories Reviews     

June Jordan poet, activist, professor Dead at 65

Junious Ricardo Stanton

     Sharif Interviews Junious

     Positively Black Table   

     Stanton Bio   

Kalamu ya Salaam

     Kalamu ya Salaam Table

Kil Ja Kim

     Black Immigrants Deported in Higher Numbers  

     Bought Colored Kids   

     Image of the Black Criminal   

     Response to Shaquille O’Neal  

     To White Women Who Think  

     White Anti-Racist is an Oxymoron

Langston Hughes

     In Praise of Langston Hughes

     Langston Hughes Bio

     Notes of a Native Son By Langston Hughes  

     Sermon and Blues

     A New Song

Larry Neal

The Black Arts Movement  (Larry Neal)

Don't Say Goodbye to the Porkpie Hat Mingus, Bird, Prez, Langston, and them By Larry Neal

Larry Neal Bio  

Larry Neal Chronology 

Larry Neal Interview in Omowe   

Larry Neal Speaks

Lee Meitzen Grue

     A Tribute to Lee Meitzen Grue

     French Quarter Poems  -- Introduction

Lil Joe

     Lil Joe Bio  

     Lil Joe Index

Louis Reyes Rivera

     (compulsion strikes the witness)

     Inside the river of poetry

     Interview with Louis Reyes Rivera   

     jorge's journey    

     On the Passing of Rich Bartee

     Scattered Scripture   

     Writers' Workshop    

Margaret Walker

     The Ballad of the Free

     Conversations with Margaret Walker edited by Maryemma Graham

     Contents of Conversations  

     Walker Chronology

Marvin X

    Marvin X Table 

     The San Francisco Tenderloin Book Fair

     When I'll Wave the Flag 

Michael S. Harper  Poet Scholar, University Professor

The Mystic Life  By Phyllis Parun

Nate Shaw

     All God's Dangers The Life of Nate Shaw By Theodore Rosengarten

     "All God's Dangers Ain't White Men."

     Crane's Ford and the Sharecroppers Union (SCU)

Nicholas Guillén  Cuban Poet  (1902-1989)

Prince Twins Seven Seven

     Prince Twins Seven Seven

     Workshops - Lectures - Demonstrations 

Ralph Ellison

    Ellison Biography

     Review of Invisible Man  

     Review 2 of Invisible Man  

     What America Would Be Like Without Blacks A Time Essay (April 6, 1970)  by Ralph Ellison

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     Anthologies

          Chicken Soup for the Peace Lover’s Soul Candice C. Carter

          Outside Within Transracial Adoptees Write on Race and Belonging

          Published Author Looking for Centenarians Karen E. Quinones Miller

     Martial Arts

          Capoeira Angola  presents  Besouro Preto

     StoryTelling

          National Association of Black Storytellers Conference

Remembering Bob Borsodi

The Revolutionary Theatre   by Leroi Jones

Richard Wright

    African American Confinement Literature

    I Bite the Hand That Feeds Me by Richard Wright (A response to David Cohn)

     Blueprint for Negro Literature

     I Tried to Be a Communist  (William Paterson Bio  Benjamin J. Davis Bio  Big Tom the Red)

    The Negro Novel: Richard Wright  [A Review of Native Son] by David L. Cohn

     The Outsider by Richard Wright Reviewed by  Majorie Crowe Hughes      

     Richard Wright's Native Son A review by Edward Skillin, Jr.

       Wright Bio-Chronology   

     Uncle Tom's Children  & Native Son

Robert Penny

     Brentin Mock

     Frances Lee Wilson     

     Kuntu Writers Workshop Resumes

     Peter Hart

     Robert Lee "Rob" Penny (Playwright, 1941-2003)

Roots: A Powerful Impact

Rose Ure Mezu  Mezu Table

     Chiege, Woman of Splendor

     Igbo Marriage

     National and Racial Archetypes

     Religion & Society

     Songs of the Hearth

     Voices: At A Catholic Black Church  

Sonia Sanchez: Poet & Educator

Sterling Brown

     Dunbar and Traditional Dialect (excerpts) [1937]

     Sterling Brown & Marcus Christian    

Ted Joans

     Charlie Parker

Tom Dent

     The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

     Jessie Covington Dent  

     My Father Is Dead  by Kalamu ya Salaam

     Tom Dent Bio  

     Tom Dent Speaks

Tony Medina

     Emerge & See

W.E.B. Du Bois

     Dawn of Freedom (A SYMPOSIUM The Legacy of The Souls of Black Folk)

     DuBois' Credo  

     Du Bois Chronology

     Jacob and Esau  

     Negro Church (1903)

     The Souls of Black Folk  Introduction by Saunders Redding

     Table of Soul of Black Folk

     Toussaint L'Ouverture and Nat Turner

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

     Armstrong's Trumpet

     Babii Yar

     Evtushenko in Satchmo's New Orleans

     Lit a la Russe

Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa Table

     Biosketch

     Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa (New Orleans, May 1985)

     Our Sincere Condolences Go Out (Deaths of Yusef's son & consort)

     Yusef Speaks 1    

     Yusef Speaks 2    

     Yusef Speak 3

Zora Neale Hurston A Bio-Chronology (1903-1960)

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Literature and Arts

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