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May into June and Summer Reading
it is time to acknowledge another summer reading opportunity... i will be reading mystery and fictionalized accounts of urban life...
Congratulations to all new graduates yours and mine... do them a favor and give them a freshman college reading list...
Congratulations to all new graduates yours and mine... do them a favor and give them a freshman college reading list...
Love, Loss, Forever and Always!
let us be diligent in writing and understanding the culture that we live and create... this is not forgotten in the Black Books Review....
Book Review March and April
09 The book review selection for March and Apirl 09 is the Hemingses of Monticello...
The Children of No One
The Hemingses of Monticello
"With the decline in new imports from the continent, the multilingual, multicultural world of Exizabeth's African mother began to give way to the culture created by American'born children of slavery."
What type of transformation did this create
"With the decline in new imports from the continent, the multilingual, multicultural world of Exizabeth's African mother began to give way to the culture created by American'born children of slavery."
What type of transformation did this create
Slavery and the Literary Imagination
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Slavery and the Literary Imagination
The 2009 David Brion Davis Lectures
Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University; E.L. Doctorow, New York University; Caryl Phillips, Yale University; and Natasha Trethewey, Emory University present a panel discussion on their poetry and literature.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT (2 hours, 9 minutes)
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Slavery and the Literary Imagination
The 2009 David Brion Davis Lectures
Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University; E.L. Doctorow, New York University; Caryl Phillips, Yale University; and Natasha Trethewey, Emory University present a panel discussion on their poetry and literature.
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT (2 hours, 9 minutes)
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Black History Month!
Lorraine Hansberry -- the first African-American woman to have a play produced on Broadway -- was greatly influenced by her realtor father. His landmark suit to overturn restrictive
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Steve Harvey "What Men Really Think"
From stand up comedian to actor and now author Steve Harvey has penned a relationship book to let women know what men really want. Now it seems i've missed him in the annual issue of Ebony on Black Love and now here it is for real from my wire... at NY Times
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