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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry 0000000109136877 Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was a renowned American playwright and painter, best known for her Broadway production “A Raisin in the Sun.” Born in Chicago, to in...

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William Leo Hansberry

William Leo Hansberry 0000000021037954 “The Father of African Studies” Historian and anthropologist, William Leo Hansberry studied at Atlanta University and Harvard. He devoted his life to...

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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

by Imani Perry

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry Imani Perry 9780807064498 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet...

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What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice

by Jay Leslie

What I Must Tell the World: How Lorraine Hansberry Found Her Voice Jay Leslie 9781638930693 Nonfiction Hillman Grad Books Zando “Lorraine Hansberry has had a direct influence on who we are, the st...

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Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks

Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks MULTIPLE Prominent authors including Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, ...

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African American Audio Experience

by Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks

African American Audio Experience Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks 9780060535278 Nonfiction Caedmon HarperCollins The leadi...

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black

by Lorraine Hansberry

To Be Young, Gifted and Black Lorraine Hansberry 9780679764151 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary A...

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Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?

by Lorraine Hansberry

Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? Lorraine Hansberry 9780679755326 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here are Lorraine Hansberry’s last three plays—Les B...

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A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry 9780679755333 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House “…pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre.”—Newsweek “…a milestone in the American...

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A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry 9780679601722 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House

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Katori Hall

Katori Hall 0000000071268953 Katori Hall, a renowned playwright from Memphis, is best known for her Olivier Award-winning play, The Mountaintop. Other works include Hurt Village, Hoodoo Love, and The...

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Ronald Fair

Ronald Fair 0000000116782340 Chicago-born African-American author, Ronald L. Fair, inspired by Richard Wright, carved his own literary path. Born in 1932, Fair served in the U.S. Navy before becoming...

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Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008)

by Kam Williams

Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008) Kam Williams a_rais29.jpg Film Review Diddy Stars in Adaptation of Classic Play Available on DVD   A Raisin in the Sun Click to order vi...

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Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver

by Michael A. Gonzales

Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver Michael A. Gonzales Article In 2021 my friend Paul Price was cleaning out a storage unit when he stumbled on collection of Black literature called Right On! A...

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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons

by Imani Perry

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons Imani Perry 9780807076552 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Imani Perry is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she al...

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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay 9780393040012 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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Eartha Watts-Hicks

Eartha Watts-Hicks NONE Eartha Watts-Hicks is a prolific writer for various online publications, including Harlem World's Magazine's blog and TheUrbanBookSource.com. She has been the director of publ...

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Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution

by Peniel E. Joseph

Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution Peniel E. Joseph 9781541675896 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of ...

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Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement

by Tanisha C. Ford

Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Tanisha C. Ford 9780063115712 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An engrossing social history of the un...

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Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays

by Edwidge Danticat

Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays Edwidge Danticat 9781642503623 Nonfiction Books & Books Books & Books Edwidge Danticat’s Writing JourneyToday, Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning writer. But ho...

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Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

by Daphne A. Brooks

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound Daphne A. Brooks 9780674052819 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press An award-winning Black feminist music cri...

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What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250199416 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A ...

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The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing

by Christine List

The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing Christine List 9780883783351 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Christine Houston wrote Two Twenty Seven, a p...

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Esther Cooper Jackson on Freedways Magazine

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Esther Cooper Jackson on Freedways Magazine Author Interviews Esther Cooper Jackson (August 21, 1917 – August 23, 2022) was the founding managing editor of Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Free...

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Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home

by Anita Hill

Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home Anita Hill 9780807014431 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A searing portrait “of the ways in which black men and women have struggle...

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The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

by Lawrence P. Jackson

The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 Lawrence P. Jackson 9780691141350 Fiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Ind...

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I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)

by Audre Lorde

I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) Audre Lorde 9780195341485 Nonfiction Oxford University P...

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Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century

by Sara Blair

Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Sara Blair 9780691130873 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Harlem riot of 1935 not o...

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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

by Harold Cruse

The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Harold Cruse 9781590171356 Nonfiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books Published in 1967, as the early...

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Respecting the Soul: Daily Reflections for Black Lesbians and Gays

by Keith Boykin

Respecting the Soul: Daily Reflections for Black Lesbians and Gays Keith Boykin 9780380800216 Fiction Avon Books (P) HarperCollins DAILY AFFIRMATIONS FOR SPIRITUAL RENEWAL, EMPOWERMENT, FUFILLMENT AND...

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Wisdom of the Elders

by Robert Fleming

Wisdom of the Elders Robert Fleming 9780345409751 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go....

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The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris 9780195065107 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here indeed ...

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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

by Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Beverly Guy-Sheftall 9781565842564 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press The first major anthology to trace the development, from the ...

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Belly Song and Other Poems

by Etheridge Knight

Belly Song and Other Poems Etheridge Knight 9780910296885 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers—Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick...

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Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature

by Bradford and Rebecca Moon

Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature Bradford and Rebecca Moon 9780451000477 Fiction New American Library Penguin Random House This anthology includes the work of Malcolm X, Countee Cullen, LeRo...

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Shay Youngblood

Shay Youngblood 0000000066793518 Shay Youngblood is an award-winning novelist and playwright, known for her drama 'Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery'. Passionate about reading and writing since childhood...

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Esther Cooper Jackson

Esther Cooper Jackson 0000000037560491 Esther Cooper Jackson (1917-2022) was a co-founder and managing editor of Freedomways magazine from 1961-1985, a significant publication featuring writers like ...

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Sean "Diddy" Combs The "A Raisin in the Sun" Interview

by Kam Williams

Sean "Diddy" Combs The "A Raisin in the Sun" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in New York on November 4, 1969, rap mogul Sean ’Diddy’ Combs is the CEO and founder of Bad Boy Worldwide ...

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On-line Writers Workshop

by AALBC Writers Guide

On-line Writers Workshop Loading   WANTED: Black Writers with balls and ovaries of teflon and steel who can put up with heat waves, flashbacks, old lovers and word processors who can keep a watch...

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