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John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism

by Thumper

John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism Thumper Book Review I was looking forward to reading Keith Gilyard’s biography, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. J...

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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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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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Every Man a King

by Robert Fleming

Every Man a King Robert Fleming Book Review For those who love the creators of the hard-boiled private dicks from the 1930s such as Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley&r...

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Life, Above All

by Kam Williams

Life, Above All Kam Williams lifeafterall1.jpg Film Review Stoic 12 Year-Old Overcomes Ostracism in Bittersweet South African Saga   Life, Above All Click to Buy Via Amazon Act...

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W. (2008)

by Kam Williams

W. (2008) Kam Williams w.htm13.jpg Film Review Oliver Stone Chronicles Bush’s Checkered Career with Damning Bio-Pic W. Rated PG-13 for profanity, sexual references, smoking, alc...

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Child

by Kam Williams

Child Kam Williams Book Review “In this wise and funny memoir, Ylonda Gault Caviness describes her journey to the realization that all the parenting advice she was obsessively devouring, as...

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The Henry Louis Gates

by Robert Fleming

The Henry Louis Gates Robert Fleming Book Review Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation’s most acclaimed scholars, is a masterful jack of all trades, including educator, editor, critic and ...

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October Baby

by Kam Williams

October Baby Kam Williams october_baby_2012_movie_poster.jpg Film Review Abortion Survivor Searches for Birth Mom in Modern Morality Play October Baby [2012] In Theaters: Mar 23, 2012 Limited ...

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Oreo

by Thumper

Oreo Thumper Book Review I’m thinking, pondering, you might say, that possibly the sign of a good book isn’t the fact that it is in print. Maybe, the sign of a good book should be wheth...

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The Emperor of Ocean Park

by Thumper

The Emperor of Ocean Park Thumper Book Review Conservative Pundit’s Mystery Novel Only Partly Successful Stephen L. Carter makes his debut as a fiction writer with The Emperor of Ocean Par...

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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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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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When the Levees Broke

by Kam Williams

When the Levees Broke Kam Williams when_t13.jpg Film Review When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts   A Film Review by  Kam Williams Fair (1 star) Unrated Running time: 240 minut...

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Annie

by Kam Williams

Annie Kam Williams annie-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Annie (2014) In Theaters: Dec 19, 2014 Wide Rated PG for mild epithets and rude humor Running time: 118 minutes Distributor: Columbia Pictu...

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Gather Together in My Name

by Thumper

Gather Together in My Name Thumper Book Review You know, there are times when I simply LOOOVE being Thumper and reviewing books. Reviewing Tracey Price-Thompson’s latest novel, Gather...

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Gangsta Lean

by Linda Watkins

Gangsta Lean Linda Watkins Book Review Too Clean! Debut novel, Gangsta Lean, penned by Rochan Morgan is one of the few chronologically tight stories written by a new author this year. It is so ti...

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Dive

by Thumper

Dive Thumper Book Review Dive serves as a heavy, textured and elaborately engraved calling card to an awesome, beautiful, new voice on the horizon. Dive is the debut novel by Lisa Teasley. Dive, ...

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Zodiac Saga 2 The Balance of Power by Kaitlyn McKnight

by Robert Fleming

Zodiac Saga 2 The Balance of Power by Kaitlyn McKnight Robert Fleming Book Review There are quality novels in the Young Adult novel market. It’s not easy or simple to do these hybrid collection...

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I Am New Orleans

by Robert Fleming

I Am New Orleans Robert Fleming Book Review American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher Kalamu ya Salaam, a leading citizen of New Orleans’s 9th Ward, has always been a booster for the Cresce...

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Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature

by Robert Fleming

Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature Robert Fleming Book Review When literary icon Toni Morrison died in August, 2019, world literature lost a r...

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The Bedroom: An Everlasting Love Story

by Robert Fleming

The Bedroom: An Everlasting Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review This slight paperback, inspired by the film, The Bedroom, packs several truths of marriage and commitment into its revealing pages....

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Praedamus Let Us Prey Selling Heaven: It’s All An Illusion

by Kam Williams

Praedamus Let Us Prey Selling Heaven: It’s All An Illusion Kam Williams Book Review “Religion plays an important part in most people’s lives… Many of us have absolute and often b...

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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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It’s A Thin Line

by Thumper

It’s A Thin Line Thumper Book Review It’s A Thin Line may be the title to Kimberla Lawson Roby’s latest novel, but it also describes the condition of my last nerve that this book jumped ...

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The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

by Kam Williams

The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Kam Williams Book Review “How is it that a Jewish prophet from the Roman era ran so explosively into the American obsession...

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Words to Our Now: Imagination & Dissent

by Kam Williams

Words to Our Now: Imagination & Dissent Kam Williams Book Review ’The word ’faggot’ itself is to me as nasty a form of violence as the perennial spit-nastiness in that classic Ame...

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What Love Feels Like

by Robert Fleming

What Love Feels Like Robert Fleming Book Review Most romances sugarcoat the challenges of love and commitment, but this new novel, What Love Feels Like, by F.Y. Dawn, shows the high cost of trust an...

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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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Through The Storm

by Linda Watkins

Through The Storm Linda Watkins Book Review Coming of age is no easy feat. I think everyone still cringes at mistakes made as teenagers, which came from not listening to words of wisdom from mom and...

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Once Is Never Enough

by Idrissa Uqdah

Once Is Never Enough Idrissa Uqdah Book Review If Loving You Is Wrong, I don't Want To Be Right The old rythmn and blues tune, If Loving You Is Wrong, I don't Want To Be Right aptly desc...

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Femme du Monde

by Tara Betts

Femme du Monde Tara Betts Book Review Spears Jones’ second collection Femme du Monde does not simply unfold the artful experiences of a woman who has traveled and soaked up the internatio...

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Mixed: My Life in Black and White

by Kam Williams

Mixed: My Life in Black and White Kam Williams Book Review ’Soon, two black security guards were buzzed through the doors toward me. My mouth stayed on full blast. ’Oh, sure, y’...

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Wake Up Everybody

by Paige Turner

Wake Up Everybody Paige Turner Book Review I play the street life cuz there’s no place I can go Street Life - it’s the only life I know Street Life - there’s a thousand parts to pla...

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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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Sasha’s Way

by Mercedes Allen

Sasha’s Way Mercedes Allen Book Review Until I watched Pulp Fiction, the movie, I was not very knowledgeable about Pulp Fiction, the genre of literature. My observation was that it’s n...

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Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison

by Robert Fleming

Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Robert Fleming Book Review There is so much commercial tripe out there on our bookshelves, but this book is very worthy: Miss Chloe: A Memoir Of A...

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A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom

by Robert Fleming

A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom Robert Fleming Book Review So many books written by gay, Black men do not explore the inner emotional terrain of their character. That is why this vast, dram...

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Digital Coup: The Conspiracy to Thwart Global Democracy

by Shanida Carter

Digital Coup: The Conspiracy to Thwart Global Democracy Shanida Carter Book Review “Democracy around the globe is facing its greatest threat since World War II,” writes author Darin Johnson, who beli...

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Living Water

by Paige Turner

Living Water Paige Turner Book Review The Woman at the Well is a well-known bible story that almost begs for deeper examination.  Her conversation with Jesus, and His promise of "living wa...

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Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne

by Thumper

Moses and the Monster and Miss Anne Thumper Book Review I admit that the things that form my initial impressions of a book are somewhat shallow. I love a good book cover, whether it is pictures or ...

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Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

by Kam Williams

Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film Kam Williams Book Review I admit that the things that form my initial impressions of a book are somewhat shallow. I love a good book cover, whether it...

Film Review

Daddy’s Little Girls

by Kam Williams

Daddy’s Little Girls Kam Williams daddy’15.jpg Film Review Frigid Attorney Melts for Amorous Auto Mechanic in Charming, if Predictable, Romantic Comedy   Daddy’s Little Girls Film Re...

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