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In-Dependence from Bondage

by Kam Williams

In-Dependence from Bondage Kam Williams Book Review ’Claude McKay (1890-1948) and Michael N. Manley (1924-1997) shared a common commitment to the struggle of African Diaspora people for libe...

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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy

by Thumper

Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Thumper Book Review I decided to be ambitions this summer and read a number of non-fiction titles. I blame ...

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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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Grasshopper Speaks

by Emanuel Carpenter

Grasshopper Speaks Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Katrina Register’s memoir, “Grasshopper Speaks,” the author takes readers on the whirlwind journey of her life. In this debut, s...

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

by Kam Williams

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Kam Williams mandela-2013-alternate-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom In Theaters: Nov 29, 2013 Limited PG-13 for sexuality, intense violence...

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Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper

by Kam Williams

Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper Kam Williams Book Review “While the Constitution declares that all men are born free and equal, the wise corporation of the city of...

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Freedom Bound

by Jayne Cubbage

Freedom Bound Jayne Cubbage Book Review The novel Freedom bound is based on the life Anta Majigeen Ndiaya who had been captured by slave raiders from Yang Yang village in Senegal, West Africa. Auth...

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An Uncaged Eagle -- True Freedom

by Kam Williams

An Uncaged Eagle -- True Freedom Kam Williams Book Review "This autobiography tells the story of my life while highlighting some of the tremendous people who helped me overcome adversities I fa...

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Sweet Release

by Kam Williams

Sweet Release Kam Williams Book Review ’The racial struggle, for many of us, is over. Our struggles are now centered around schools for our children, career opportunities, and develop...

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Freedom’s Daughters

by Paige Turner

Freedom’s Daughters Paige Turner Book Review “Women hold up half the sky” is one of Chinese revolutionary Mao Tse Dung’s most often quoted statements. However readers of Freedom&rsq...

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Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery

by Richard Murray

Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery Richard Murray Book Review Frederick Douglass once said, “The American Government and the American Constitution are spoken of in a manner ...

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Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell

by Brenda M. Greene

Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell Brenda M. Greene Book Review In Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement (The New Press, 2018), Dr. Janet ...

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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

by Kam Williams

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March Kam Williams Book Review “Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda Blackmon Lowery refused to give u...

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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War

by Kam Williams

The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War Kam Williams Book Review “This is the story of Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70), a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist,...

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Sovereign Evolution

by Kam Williams

Sovereign Evolution Kam Williams Book Review ’African-Americans could benefit from a 21st Century approach to freedom and equality, using sovereign principles as its interp...

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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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A Flag for Juneteenth

by Mel Hopkins

A Flag for Juneteenth Mel Hopkins Book Review Choose Freedom In A Flag for Juneteenth, Kim Taylor weaves a tale of freedom and how to achieve it even when your world is in tatters. And while this...

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What Next

by Paige Turner

What Next Paige Turner Book Review During these times of turmoil between the United States and Iraq the creative community is using the full extent of its powers to offer solutions. Walter Mosley, ...

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Guiou: The Other Blacks The Afro-Jamaican Presence in Guatemala

by Kam Williams

Guiou: The Other Blacks The Afro-Jamaican Presence in Guatemala Kam Williams Book Review [This book] “chronicles the journey of a group of Jamaican pioneers who went to Guatemala during the ...

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Standing in the Need of Prayer

by Rondall Brasher

Standing in the Need of Prayer Rondall Brasher Book Review Standing in the Need of Prayer is a book dedicated the diverse and powerful subject of Black prayer. The photographs and other anthropologi...

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Read Until You Understand

by Robert Fleming

Read Until You Understand Robert Fleming Book Review With a solid array of books to her credit, Farah Jasmine Griffin has possibly written one of the artistic highlights in the national book marketpl...

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Black Food

by Robert Fleming

Black Food Robert Fleming Book Review Black food, aka Soul food, is celebrated all over the world for its delicious ingredients, tangy flavors, homegrown recipes, and traditional richness. This book,...

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If My Hair Had a Voice

by Lisa Y? Wilson

If My Hair Had a Voice Lisa Y? Wilson Book Review When another comb loses the battle with Kimya’s natural coils, feeling shame she apologizes and asks, “Can’t we just straighten it?...

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The Sun Knows Her Name

by Shanida Carter

The Sun Knows Her Name Shanida Carter Book Review “May we all remember what we were born from, and what still moves through us.” Spoiler alert: Courtney Thornton’s debut novel, The Sun Knows Her N...

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Something Torn and New

by Kam Williams

Something Torn and New Kam Williams Book Review ’Linguicide is the linguistic equivalent of genocide. Genocide involves conscious acts of physical massacre; linguicide, conscious ac...

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Boss of Black Brooklyn, The Life and Times of Bertram Baker

by Brenda M. Greene

Boss of Black Brooklyn, The Life and Times of Bertram Baker Brenda M. Greene Book Review Bertram Baker was a man of his times… Like Du Bois, Bertram believed in agitating to achieve political...

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Black Like You

by Kam Williams

Black Like You Kam Williams Book Review ’Listening to Knipp, a white man, impersonating Shirley Q. Liquor, a Black woman, was one thing. Actually seeing a white man in blackface dra...

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Defying the Odds

by Kam Williams

Defying the Odds Kam Williams Book Review   ’Whether the threat is a burning cross in a sleepy Southern town, or a female doctor bucking the whites-only hiring policies of a city h...

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Don’t Let "IT" Get You!

by Kam Williams

Don’t Let "IT" Get You! Kam Williams Book Review ’Success means nothing, if we are not healthy enough to enjoy it. I urge you to make your health a priority’ This book&rsquo...

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I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving a Child with a Life-Altering Disease

by Kam Williams

I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving a Child with a Life-Altering Disease Kam Williams Book Review "This is a personal story of a family’s ability to love and support each other through the...

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Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Everyday

by Kam Williams

Kwanzaa: From Holiday to Everyday Kam Williams Book Review ’One of the reasons Kwanzaa has been widely embraced is that it speaks directly to the need many feel for a self-determi...

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Marriage 101

by Kam Williams

Marriage 101 Kam Williams Book Review ’Most of us have heard what the acronym BIBLE stands for: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. The Bible gives us everything we need ...

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Oxford Anth. of African-American Poetry

by Kam Williams

Oxford Anth. of African-American Poetry Kam Williams Book Review ’I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.’ ’ Excerpted from Th...

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Miles and Me

by Paige Turner

Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...

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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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Colored Sugar Water

by Thumper

Colored Sugar Water Thumper Book Review Another moment of truth, I didn't care for Venise Berry’s new novel of the super-natural meets Jesus, Colored Sugar Water, at all. Although Colored S...

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Breaking The Blank

by Eryka Parker

Breaking The Blank Eryka Parker Book Review If poetry is an artful expression of the soul, the creators of Breaking the Blank understood the assignment. This compelling literary work proudly speaks o...

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The Wounds Are the Witness

by Denolyn Carroll

The Wounds Are the Witness Denolyn Carroll Book Review The Wounds Are the Witness speaks to the often disregarded or denied cycles of pain and trauma among marginalized and disenfranchised people, wh...

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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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Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave

by Shaundale Rénā

Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave Shaundale Rénā Book Review In writing Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave, author Tiffany G. Townsend, PhD, add...

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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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The Grace of Silence: A Memoir

by Kam Williams

The Grace of Silence: A Memoir Kam Williams Book Review "As a young man, my father had been shot by a white policeman, but never spoke about the incident after leaving Alabama and moving north. H...

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Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom

by Kam Williams

Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom Kam Williams Book Review “Elected six times to the House from the state of Georgia, Cynthia McKinney cut a trail through Congressional deceit like a hot ember throug...

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The Bondwoman’s Narrative

by Paige Turner

The Bondwoman’s Narrative Paige Turner Book Review In the 1850s a female slave owned by John Wheeler, a North Carolina plantation owner and minor government official, escaped and fled to freedom. Sh...

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To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement

by Kam Williams

To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement Kam Williams Book Review “On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded onto the cold, hard grounds of the nation’s cap...

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Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom

by Kam Williams

Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom Kam Williams Book Review "You may have heard of me, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, as having been a professional prizefighter. That, alon...

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Osama Bin Laden

by Kam Williams

Osama Bin Laden Kam Williams Book Review  ’In the Western media, and especially the United States, the demonization of Osama bin Laden has been complete. Almost without exception, he is ...

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The Life of Olaudah Equiano

by Thumper

The Life of Olaudah Equiano Thumper Book Review In a continuing effort to broaden my horizon and go outside of my comfort zone, I decided to read The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano, eve...

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The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

by Robert Fleming

The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World Robert Fleming Book Review It’s always beneficial to understand how learned minds, from abroad, view our current world wit...

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We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America

by Eryka Parker

We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America Eryka Parker Book Review We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America by Michael I...

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The Freedom Writers Diary

by Kam Williams

The Freedom Writers Diary Kam Williams Book Review "My daughter Suhaila was born a full decade after my mother died… Becoming a parent made me think of my own mother with both intense g...

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Blacktrospective 2013 by Kam Williams

by Kam Williams

Blacktrospective 2013 by Kam Williams Kam Williams http://aalbc.com/reviews/20-feet-from-stardom.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2013 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema Each year we pub...

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Mind Right

by Kam Williams

Mind Right Kam Williams Book Review "If you are looking for a quick fix to your current financial issues, then this isn’t the right book for you… this book was written to dispel...

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Still I Rise

by Kam Williams

Still I Rise Kam Williams Book Review ’One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides abo...

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Cowards and Angels

by Robert Fleming

Cowards and Angels Robert Fleming Book Review In this slender novel, Cowards and Angels, Aileen Muhammad tries to do an almost impossible task in African American literature, to recreate a modern...

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Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African-American Identity

by Kam Williams

Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African-American Identity Kam Williams Book Review "In this book, I will not detail every pathological condition that ever existed in African-American...

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Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African-American Identity

by Kam Williams

Say It Loud! Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African-American Identity Kam Williams Book Review "This is the second anthology of great speeches by African-Americans meant for the eye and ea...

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The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice

by Kam Williams

The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice Kam Williams Book Review “The social challenges of our time are enormous. About one in seven U.S. residents live in poverty, and t...

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A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

by Kam Williams

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home Kam Williams Book Review “Black families and neighborhoods have been disproportionately victimized by bankers’ p...

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My Holy Bible for African-American Children King James Version

by Kam Williams

My Holy Bible for African-American Children King James Version Kam Williams Book Review "If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’l...

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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome

by Kam Williams

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Kam Williams Book Review ’When African-Americans accept the deprecating accounts and images portrayed by the media, literature, music and the arts as a true ...

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Rough Crossings

by Kam Williams

Rough Crossings Kam Williams Book Review  ’Seeing the Revolutionary War through the eyes of enslaved blacks turns its meaning upside down. ’ The vaunted war for liberty was a...

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Sam Langford

by Kam Williams

Sam Langford Kam Williams Book Review In January of 1944, the New York Herald Tribune published The Forgotten Man a story about Sam Langford, aka “The Boston Tar Baby,” one of b...

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The Lost German Slave Girl

by Paige Turner

The Lost German Slave Girl Paige Turner Book Review Only the great American melting pot could provide a setting where an Australian author recounts the tale of an orphaned German immigrant who was ...

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Big Enough to Be Inconsistent

by Thumper

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent Thumper Book Review There is a great chance that my review of Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race by George M. Fredrickso...

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From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist

by Herb Boyd

From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist Herb Boyd Book Review Like many red-blooded American boys, Bob Avakian’s early years were consumed wi...

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Lion’s Blood

by Thumper

Lion’s Blood Thumper Book Review Steven Barnes, has emerged with one of the best books of 2002, a novel that explores a "what if" question; What if the United States of America had a past w...

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Sapphire’s Grave

by Thumper

Sapphire’s Grave Thumper Book Review While many of us have long since grown tired of the slave narratives, slave stories, or stories that are rooted in our past, my fascination with these stories ...

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The Adventures of Sasha & Malia at the White House

by Kam Williams

The Adventures of Sasha & Malia at the White House Kam Williams Book Review "[This] story came to me in a dream one night not long after the inauguration of President Barack Obama… I d...

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Masjid Morning

by Alexis E. Jackson

Masjid Morning Alexis E. Jackson Book Review Richard Morris’ Masjid Morning is a dedication to the millennial college student both embracing and learning how to live with religious and racial d...

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The Wake Up Call

by Robert Fleming

The Wake Up Call Robert Fleming Book Review With a focus on the young at heart, personal finance expert Ash Exantus aka Ash Cash employs the themes of master rapper-businessman Jay Z’s classic ...

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A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law

by Kam Williams

A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law Kam Williams Book Review We are definitely in challenging times. A lot of things so many of us fought for are being deliberately and actively ro...

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The Water Dancer

by Tony Lindsay

The Water Dancer Tony Lindsay Book Review To mix magical realism with historical fiction is a bold task. To discuss the topic of family pride from the perspective of the offspring of a slave and a ma...

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Why I Sued the Bible Publishers

by Robert Fleming

Why I Sued the Bible Publishers Robert Fleming Book Review If there was ever a book title that yelled its intentions, this is it. The book’s author, Bradley Fowler, one of the faithful of Presb...

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Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens

by Carol Taylor

Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens Carol Taylor Book Review Dear Badass Black Girl, You are a true warrior who inherited the strength, courage, wisdom, love, and di...

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Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice

by Carol Taylor

Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice Carol Taylor Book Review Much more than a memoir, Black Power, Black Lawyer traces not only Nkechi Taifa’s personal life, and her decad...

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You Made Me Love You

by Robert Fleming

You Made Me Love You Robert Fleming Book Review Like Ishmael Reed, Clarence Major, and other legendary African-American male writers of their generation, John Edgar Wideman, at eighty, is nearing the...

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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 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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Bourbon Street

by Thumper

Bourbon Street Thumper Book Review It has been a long while since I read a book as complex and gorgeous as Bourbon Street written by Leonce Gaiter. A novel which explores the spectrum of inner na...

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In The Words Of Nelson Mandela

by Robert Fleming

In The Words Of Nelson Mandela Robert Fleming Book Review One of the greatest assignments of my career as a newspaper reporter was covering South African leader, Nelson Mandela, who had just been r...

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War Dance

by Kam Williams

War Dance Kam Williams war_da30.jpg Film Review DVD Examines Drive to Dance in the Midst of Ugandan Civil War War Dance Click to order via Amazon Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Sugg...

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William Kunstler

by Kam Williams

William Kunstler Kam Williams willia18.jpg Film Review Bio-Pic Chronicles the Life and Times of Late Civil Rights Lawyer   William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe Unrated ...

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Winnie Mandela

by Kam Williams

Winnie Mandela Kam Williams nelsonandwinnie.jpg Film Review Jennifer Hudson Portrays Infamous Icon in Warts-and-All Biopic Winnie Mandela In Theaters: Sep 6, 2013 Limited On DVD: Dec 17,...

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Forgiveness

by Kam Williams

Forgiveness Kam Williams forgiv25.jpg Film Review More Truth than Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Revenge Flick   Forgiveness Unrated In English and Afrikaans with subtitles Running time: 112 ...

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