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    The Renunciations

    Donika Kelly

    …book. I love being surprised by certain unexpected word choices and by the mythic vision and compassion.” Kelly reflected on this compassion with the poet Ladan Osman, in an interview…

  • Portrait of Eric Foner
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    Eric Foner

    …lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. “Friends and I formed a little group on campus called ACTION,” Foner told a writer for Columbia College Today. “It was ultra-moderate compared to…

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    Naught for Your Comfort

    Trevor Huddleston

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    Free Book Giveaway at the WestSide Market

    September 22, 2024, 10:00 am

    …and Carol and John’s Comic Shop will have free comics, and Rust Belt Humanities Lab will be on hand for a free talk on documentary comics. Great for the whole…

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    Latin Americans in Texas

    Pauline R. Kibbe

    …citywide Central Planning Committee for Inter-American Understanding. That year she wrote a weekly column called Looking South for the San Antonio Light. From 1939 to 1943 Pauline Kibbe served as…

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    Colored Television

    Danzy Senna

    A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.   Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously,…

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    Gods of the Upper Air

    Charles King

    …mores and practices are parochial (and potentially changeable) habits of place and time rather than being the only way that civilized life can be lived. But commonplaces weren’t always common…

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    What the Eye Hears

    Brian Seibert

    …he came upon Swing 46, a midtown club where a tapper of almost 90 named Buster Brown presided over Crazy Tap Jam, where he opened the floor to all comers,…

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    The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    …which Gates coedited with Nellie Y. McKay. Ten years in the making, the Norton Anthology is a massive 2,665-page compilation with an accompanying compact disc of vernacular material. The book…

  • Portrait of Ernest J. Gaines
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    Ernest J. Gaines

    …Miss Jane and her community through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement. The compelling narrative that resulted — still considered Gaines’s masterpiece—became a best-selling book and a…

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    Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    …its inhabitants has provoked critical hosannas, and comparisons to William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The ghosts in Ward’s most recent novel – Sing, Unburied, Sing – evoke the hauntings found…

  • Portrait of Samuel R. Delany
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    Samuel R. Delany

    …Hugo prize by the time he was 27; he did so despite severe dyslexia. Throughout his career, Delany has been equally comfortable at academic conferences and comic book conventions. “Physically,…

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    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

    Walter Mosley

    …Mosley worked a series of jobs, including caterer, potter, and computer programmer. In 1981 he moved to New York and began taking graduate writing courses at the City College of…

  • Portrait of Gordon Parks
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    Gordon Parks

    …time, Parks turned his camera from the fantasy world of fashion to the destitute streets of Chicago’s South Side. These pictures, exhibited at the South Side Community Art Center, won…

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    The Negro College Graduate

    Charles S. Johnson

    commissions, including for racial violence and public housing. He wrote a critical study of forced labor in Liberia for the League of Nations in 1930 called Bitter Canaan. In 1946,…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …of a close-knit black community, and he was always encouraged to read. As a teenager, Hughes lived with his mother in Lincoln, Illinois, and Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland, he contributed…

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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X

    …which concludes with Malcolm X’s reevaluation of the Nation of Islam religious movement, highlights the complexity, compassion, and humanity of a figure whose public image might otherwise have remained monolithic…

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    The Family Chao

    Lan Samantha Chang

    “The Family Chao” is a story of patricide; its plot in delicious parallel with “The Brothers Karamazov.” “At the center of ‘The Family Chao’ breathes the charismatic Leo Chao, tyrannical…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    …letter as a springboard for a Double V campaign – victory abroad and at home. “Double V clubs formed in communities across the country and civil rights activists touted the…

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    Bunk

    Kevin Young

    …music inherent in the oral tradition of language re-creates for us an inner history which is compelling and authentic and American,” she wrote. Young is often asked if he is…