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Rudolph Lewis Nubian Voices Speaker
Rudolph Lewis (born
1948 in Baltimore, Maryland) was raised by his
grandparents William and Ella Lewis of Jarratt, Virginia
— in the Village of Jerusalem. He was recruited 1967 by
SNCC organizer Bob Moore while at Morgan State College
(1965-1967) to establish a Baltimore SNCC branch. Along
with Walter Lively, he helped to establish Black
Liberation Press. He spent several years (since1969) as
an organizer for Local 1199, the Health Care Workers
Union; resigning from 1199 in 1974.
He graduated with a
B.A (1978) and M.A. (1981) degrees in English. After
graduation, he taught writing and literature at
University of the District of Columbia and the
University of Maryland. In 1982, he spent ten weeks with
the Peace Corps in Zaire. He taught writing at Northeast
Louisiana University (NLU, 1983) and then the University
of New Orleans (UNO, 1984-1986). Yusef Komunyakaa and
Lewis, along with Ahmose Zu-Bolton, created and built
the cultural center Copacetic on Piety Street. Lewis
wrote poems and essays that were published by The New
Laurel Review edited by Lee Meitzen Grue. With poet
Gillian Conoley, he also began his own rag, Crickets:
Poems & Other Jazz, which lasted several issues. In
1987, he returned to Baltimore and worked again for
Local 1199 as editor and organizer. From 1991-1997,
Lewis taught in several adult education programs. During
this period he spent a year in Morgan State’s doctoral
program in education (1991-1992), and completed from
1994-1997 a masters program in library science. From
1997-1999, he worked as a librarian for Enoch Pratt Free
Library.
After the
publication of his edited volume of
I Am New Orleans & Other
Poems by Marcus B. Christian in 1999, Lewis
again returned to the Village of Jerusalem where he
collected the letters and stories of his grandmother
Ella Lewis and began research on the Southampton
Rebellion of 1831. He is an authority on Nathaniel
Turner and New Orleans poet Marcus Christian. He worked
as librarian at St. Mary’s Seminary from April 2000
until August 2004. He then worked as librarian for
Baltimore City College High School from 2004 to 2005. In
November 2001, he founded the black arts and literary
website ChickenBones: A Journal (www.nathanielturner.com),
which he continues to edit and which has become one of
the most popular African-American websites on the
internet. It will receive 2 million visitors in 2006.
Speaking Topics:
“All
about Nathaniel Turner”
“Building a Popular Black Website”
“Working with Adult Education Students”
“The Problem with Information
Access for Minorities”
Nubian Voices -- Speakers
(Specializing in African Americans & Latinos)
156-20 Riverside Drive, Suite 8F,
New York, NY 10003, Tel. 212-740-4650
Email:
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posted 13 November 2006
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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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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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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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