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The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss—or Life—Throws at You

by Kam Williams

The No Excuse Guide to Success: No Matter What Your Boss—or Life—Throws at You Kam Williams Book Review “Life is not what you’ve been taught; it’s what you believe. It’s not ...

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African American History for Dummies

by Kam Williams

African American History for Dummies Kam Williams Book Review ’African-American history, to be clear, is so much more than a handful of extraordinary individuals or practices like slaver...

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Chasing Me to My Grave

by Robert Fleming

Chasing Me to My Grave Robert Fleming Book Review This enthralling memoir is one of the most heralded books about the life, imagination, and cultural influences of an African American man who goes to...

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Kam Williams

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Kam Williams Book Review ”Precisely how the system of mass incarceration works to trap African-Americans in a virtual (and ...

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Extraordinary

by Kam Williams

Extraordinary Kam Williams Book Review "John and Angelena Rice were extraordinary, ordinary people. They were middle-class folks who loved God, family, and their country. I don’t think th...

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United in Anger: A History of ACT UP

by Kam Williams

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP Kam Williams united-in-anger.jpg Film Review Riveting Gay Rights Retrospective Revisits Rise of AIDS Activism Movement   United in Anger: A History of ACT ...

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Raisins in Milk

by Brenda M. Greene

Raisins in Milk Brenda M. Greene Book Review Raisins in Milk by David Covin is a coming of age story focused on a young girl, Ruth-Ann Weathering, who is subjected to the staunch racism and stark rea...

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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

by Troy Johnson

The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era Troy Johnson Book Review I grew up in New York City’s East Harlem during the 60s and 70s. Virtually all my peers were Bl...

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Raceball: How The Major Leagues Colonized The Black and Latin Game

by Robert Fleming

Raceball: How The Major Leagues Colonized The Black and Latin Game Robert Fleming Book Review As a life-long baseball fan, I�m always on the look-out for meaningful books on the sport with its pa...

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Black Male Frames: African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema

by Kam Williams

Black Male Frames: African-Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema Kam Williams Book Review “Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black mal...

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I am Barack Obama

by Kam Williams

I am Barack Obama Kam Williams Book Review "This book tells a story of how a child can change the world. It creates a space where children can experience the extraordinary life of P...

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Obama Guilty of Being President While Black

by Kam Williams

Obama Guilty of Being President While Black Kam Williams Book Review "This book is an inspiration that came to me after witnessing the disrespect and venom expressed towards President Obama&h...

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The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear

by Kam Williams

The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear Kam Williams Book Review “In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a media storm that blew apart her life…...

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Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern

by Kam Williams

Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern Kam Williams Book Review “From his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina to his prominence on the Washington, D.C. political scene as the third...

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Blackout

by Kam Williams

Blackout Kam Williams Book Review             "It may be difficult for us today to understand both the vastness of American racism or th...

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Born to Win

by Kam Williams

Born to Win Kam Williams Book Review "No Negro player, man or woman, had ever set foot on one of these courts. In many ways, it was an even tougher personal Jim Crow-busting assignment than was...

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Forty Million Dollar Slaves

by Kam Williams

Forty Million Dollar Slaves Kam Williams Book Review  "The Belt carries young black athletes out of black America and introduces them to a world with very few African-Americans, a world o...

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Life Is a Game

by Kam Williams

Life Is a Game Kam Williams Book Review ’The choices we make determine our destiny and whether success or disaster is achieved. We either elevate to greatness or descend to obs...

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Supreme Discomfort

by Kam Williams

Supreme Discomfort Kam Williams Book Review ’[Clarence] Thomas once said he would never accept a race-based job, and yet he spent an entire federal career in such positions’ The irony i...

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The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n’ Roll

by Robert Fleming

The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n’ Roll Robert Fleming Book Review It’s a shame that nothing substantial has been written about that sacred Black entertainment network of the ...

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My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte

by Robert Fleming

My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte Robert Fleming Book Review My Song: A Memoir is the story of a blessed life, that of Harry Belafonte, the mythic musician, actor, humanitarian, and social activ...

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Spiritual Shackles

by Tiffany M. Davis

Spiritual Shackles Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Who burned the churches? This is a question that kicks off the historically mystic journey that is Spiritual Shackles.  Set primarily in Pasadena...

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Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography

by Troy Johnson

Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography Troy Johnson Book Review The age of multitasking needs better narrative history. It must be absolutely factual, immediately accessible, smart, and brilliantly fun....

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God’s Will and Other Lies: Stories

by Camille-Yvette Welsch

God’s Will and Other Lies: Stories Camille-Yvette Welsch Book Review “[T]here was so much hurt and pain and fear and sorrow … that I needed more than one kind of song to sing,” says...

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Solving The Race Issue In America by H. J. Harris

by Robert Fleming

Solving The Race Issue In America by H. J. Harris Robert Fleming Book Review This slender book, written by Harris, states it holds the solution to American racism, examining the checkered history of...

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Reflections of an Anxious African American Dad

by Robert Fleming

Reflections of an Anxious African American Dad Robert Fleming Book Review Following a troubled childhood, Eric L. Heard, an army brat who resided in Germany and Japan, decided to write a book warning...

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Under the Skin

by Robert Fleming

Under the Skin Robert Fleming Book Review Following the needless deaths of my grandfather and my father, I was very interested in reading Linda Villarosa’s Under The Skin: The Hidden Toll Of Ra...

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Merritt Magic

by Robert Fleming

Merritt Magic Robert Fleming Book Review Melinda Merritt’s nonfiction book, Merritt Magic, is a publication that defies category. In these pages, the reader will discover a reflective, mythical...

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Leading Inclusion

by Robert Fleming

Leading Inclusion Robert Fleming Book Review In this book packed with practical business concepts and strategies, Gena Cox, an acclaimed organizational psychologist and executive coach, takes on seve...

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Blue in Green

by Robert Fleming

Blue in Green Robert Fleming Book Review On August 25, 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis escorts a white girl to a cab, lights a cigarette outside Birdland, and a city policeman harasses the black man...

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The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.

by Robert Fleming

The Arc of Truth: The Thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. Robert Fleming Book Review From the start of his singular journey to confronting cultural bigotry and moral chaos, Dr. Martin Luther King stoo...

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In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom

by Robert Fleming

In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom Robert Fleming Book Review If you were politically conscious decades ago, you would have read the prison chronicles...

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Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton

by Robert Fleming

Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton Robert Fleming Book Review Back in the day, Calvin C. Hernton, a poet, scholar, and essayist, was considered a literary maverick, an outspoken advocate of truth-te...

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New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss

by Robert Fleming

New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss Robert Fleming Book Review A complete reading of this debut novel by Leon E. Pettiway, a professor emeritus at Indiana University and an ordained Buddhi...

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The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation

by Robert Fleming

The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation Robert Fleming Book Review South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn’s The First Eight: A Personal Histo...

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Princes of the Road

by Emanuel Carpenter

Princes of the Road Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In David Covin’s Princes of the Road, the author transports readers to the 1930s of America, where Jim Crow and racism ruled. The central cha...

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Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History

by Kam Williams

Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History Kam Williams Book Review “In her poem, ‘And Still I Rise,’ Dr. Maya Angelou wrote, ‘You can write me down in h...

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Wimbey’s Corner

by Emanuel Carpenter

Wimbey’s Corner Emanuel Carpenter Book Review At first glance, one might think that Wimbey’s Corner is a story about a big and black country bumpkin’ named Wayne Hunter who moves from a...

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Sister Citizen: Shame

by Kam Williams

Sister Citizen: Shame Kam Williams Book Review "This book is concerned with understanding the emotional realities of black women’s lives in order to answer a political, not a personal, ques...

Film Review

Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)

by Kam Williams

Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) Kam Williams the-butler.jpg Film Review Forest Whitaker Delivers Oscar-Quality Performance in Emotionally-Searing Civil Rights Saga Lee Daniels’ The Butler...

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green

by Kam Williams

The Odd Life of Timothy Green Kam Williams the-odd-life-of-timothy-green.jpg Film Review Childless Couple’s Prayers Answered in Enchanting Fairytale The Odd Life of Timothy Green In Thea...

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Selma

by Kam Williams

Selma Kam Williams selma-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Selma In Theaters: Dec 25, 2014 Limited, Jan 9, 2014 Wide PG-13 (for disturbing thematic material including violence, a suggestive moment, and...

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

by Kam Williams

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Kam Williams tinker_film.jpg Film Review It’s Spy vs. Spy in Adaptation of John le Carre Cold War Thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [2011] Rated R for vi...

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Crips and Bloods

by Kam Williams

Crips and Bloods Kam Williams crips_12.jpg Film Review Gangsta’ Documentary Graphically Recounts History of L.A. Turf War Crips and Bloods: Made in America Click to o...

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The Descendants

by Kam Williams

The Descendants Kam Williams images/thedescendants.jpg Film Review Clooney Seeks Redemption as Regretful Patriarch in Dysfunctional Family Drama The Descendants Rated R for profanity and sexua...

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Evan Almighty

by Kam Williams

Evan Almighty Kam Williams evan_a1.jpg Film Review God Asks Modern-Day Noah to Build Ark in Faith-Based Family Comedy Evan Almighty Rated PG for crude humor and scenes of ...

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Freedom Riders (American Experience)

by Kam Williams

Freedom Riders (American Experience) Kam Williams images/Sprite%20117.jpg Film Review American Experience: Freedom Riders Click to buy via Amazon.com Number of discs: 1 Rated: NR (...

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Get Rich or Die Tryin’

by Kam Williams

Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Kam Williams get_ri2.jpg Film Review 50 Cent Dies for Our Sins in Disappointing Screen Debut Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Rated R: for full frontal male nudity, topless fe...

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Hey, Boo: HarperLee & To Kill a MockingBird

by Kam Williams

Hey, Boo: HarperLee & To Kill a MockingBird Kam Williams images/i_heyboo.jpg Film Review   Intriguing Documentary Revisits "To Kill a Mockingbird" Hey, Boo Unrated Distribu...

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Honeydripper

by Kam Williams

Honeydripper Kam Williams honeyd9.jpg Film Review Danny Glover Stars in Saga Set in Segregated South Honeydripper Rated PG-13 for brief violence and suggestive material. Running...

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