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Read the Transcript of On-line Chat Featuring author Mat Johnson
art by Warren Pleece
Hardcover: 136 pages Writer Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail by Wareen Pleece. In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going "incognegro." Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald barely escapes with his life after his latest "incognegro" story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, he's sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay "incognegro" long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother — and himself. He finds that the answers are buried beneath layers of shifting identities, forbidden passions and secrets that run far deeper than skin color.
The astonishing true story of how rumors of a slave revolt led to a summer of persecution and murder in eighteenth-century New York
In 1741, New York City was thrown into an uproar when a sixteen-year-old white
woman, an indentured servant named Mary Burton, testified that she was privy to
a monstrous conspiracy against the white people of Manhattan. Promised her
freedom by authorities if she would only uncover the plot, Mary reported that
the black men of the city were planning to burn New York City to the ground. As
the courts ensnared more and more suspects and violence swept the city, 154
black New Yorkers were jailed, 14 were burned alive, 18 were hanged, and more
than 100 simply “disappeared”; four whites wound up being executed and 24
imprisoned. Even as the madness escalated, however, officials started to realize
that Mary Burton might not be telling the truth.
Tony Akins (Illustrator), Dan Green (Illustrator)
The King of Voodoo has a long history, but where did it all begin? The answer can be found in HELLBLAZER: PAPA MIDNITE, collecting the acclaimed 5-issue Vertigo miniseries that follows the story of the curse that made Midnite immortal, from its origin in 1712 through the failed slave rebellion of 1741 and into the present day, where he continues to pay the price for his original sin.
Click to order via Amazon ISBN: 1582342725 Read and AALBC.com Book Review by Thumper Horizon Realty is bringing Harlem back to its Renaissance. With the help of Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons trying to forge a new life-Horizon clears out the rubble and the rabble, filling once-dilapidated brownstones with black professionals handpicked for their shared vision of Harlem as a shining icon for the race. And fate seems to be working in Horizon's favor: Harlem's undesirable tenants seem increasingly clumsy of late, meeting early deaths by accident. As an ambitious reporter, Piper Goines, begins to investigate the neighborhood's extraordinarily high accident rate, Horizon's three employees find themselves fighting for their souls and their very lives-against a backdrop of some of the most beautiful brownstones in all of Manhattan.
DropClick to order via Amazon Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 214pp. "Drop is a hip, contemporary morality tale set on two continents. The novel is at times predictable, but the language is so alive, crispy-fresh and musical that you will find yourself reading aloud. “Bring-Bring me somewhere lovely where people are so alive you can hear their pulses bump-bumping as they pass you on the street,” whines Chris Jones. He is a victim of the Philly ghetto who would sell his soul to escape his fate. He does manage an escape by “pimping perfection” to the public as a top young creative wizard, putting a London advertising agency on the map. —Black Issues Book Review
Related Links The Official Website of Mat Johnson
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