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Saving Lincoln

by Kam Williams

Saving Lincoln Kam Williams saving-lincoln.jpg Film Review Chronicles Lincoln’s Long-Term Relationship with Close Confidant and Bodyguard Saving Lincoln (2013) In Theaters: Feb 15, 2013 Limit...

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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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The Face That Changed It All

by Kam Williams

The Face That Changed It All Kam Williams Book Review “Beverly Johnson made history in 1974… [as] the first African-American woman… whose face appeared on the cover of the world...

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Lincoln

by Kam Williams

Lincoln Kam Williams lincoln-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Civil War Docudrama Revisits Great Emancipator’s Team of Rivals Lincoln (2012) In Theaters: Nov 16, 2012 Wide Rated PG-13 for gruesom...

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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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Looking for Lincoln

by Kam Williams

Looking for Lincoln Kam Williams lookin7.jpg Film Review Checkered Legacy of Lincoln Revisited by PBS Series   Looking for Lincoln Click to order via ...

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Silent Conspiracy

by Thumper

Silent Conspiracy Thumper Book Review Damn, that was good! I have to stand up and applaud! I’ve just finished what I consider one of the best mysteries that I’ve read all year. With the ...

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Forced into Glory

by Kam Williams

Forced into Glory Kam Williams Book Review ’I will say then, that I am not, nor have ever been, in favor of bringing about in any way, the social and political equality of the...

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Sap Rising

by Thumper

Sap Rising Thumper Book Review There’s music in the trees. Whether the trees are standing still under the blue cloudless sky, or in its embarrassed nakedness under gray heavens with biting wint...

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Killing Willis: From Different Strokes to the Mean Streets To the Life I Always Wanted

by Kam Williams

Killing Willis: From Different Strokes to the Mean Streets To the Life I Always Wanted Kam Williams Book Review "AlI I ever wanted as a kid was to be a famous TV star… My dream came true whe...

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Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You

by Robert Fleming

Searching for Agabus: Embracing Authenticity and Finding Your Way to You Robert Fleming Book Review What is “an authentic self?” Michael Walrond, a well-known keynote speaker and the past...

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The Third Verse

by Robert Fleming

The Third Verse Robert Fleming Book Review America is a glorious idea founded on democracy and equality for all. When Jerry Canada, a former trial lawyer and New Yorker, chooses one of the most famou...

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Circus

by Kam Williams

Circus Kam Williams circus10.jpg Film Review Russian Retrospective Features 1936 Film Indicting American Racism   Circus (Tsirk) Unrated In Russian and English with subtitles. ...

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The Queen of Harlem

by Brian Egeston

The Queen of Harlem Brian Egeston Book Review He has managed to fool us all! Because his previous work gave the impression that his was the authentic voice of the next generation of Black male southe...

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The Other Side of Losing

by Kam Williams

The Other Side of Losing Kam Williams Book Review ’The Curse of the Goat’ Real Cubs fans don't talk about it much, no more than once or twice a season. Usually it’s ...

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Confessions of a Video Vixen

by Kam Williams

Confessions of a Video Vixen Kam Williams Book Review This is a review of a version of Confessions of a Video Vixen published 20 years earlier. Where young girls once aspired to be models and b...

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Confessions of a Video Vixen

by Kam Williams

Confessions of a Video Vixen Kam Williams Book Review "Where young girls once aspired to be models and ballerinas, they now aspire to be hip-hop video girls. I sat down to write this book...

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Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is

by Kam Williams

Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is Kam Williams keyshi1.jpg Film Review BET’s #1 Rated Reality Series Released on DVD   Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is’ (...

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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

by Kam Williams

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama Kam Williams Book Review “Barack Obama’s speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and...

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The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream

by Kam Williams

The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Kam Williams Book Review “A great speech is both timely and timeless. First and foremost, it must touch and move its immediate ...

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Killer of Sheep

by Kam Williams

Killer of Sheep Kam Williams killer27.jpg Film Review Killer of Sheep Click to order via Amazon Unrated Black & White Running time:     81 minutes Studio: New Yorker Video/Miles...

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded

by Kam Williams

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded Kam Williams Book Review ’Many white-led social justice non-profits proclaim, in everything from their mission statements to their funding proposals, that...

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This Side of Glory

by Thumper

This Side of Glory Thumper Book Review This Side Of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party by David Hilliard and Lewis Cole On my continuing quest in read...

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Neglected but Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother’s Love

by Carol Taylor

Neglected but Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother’s Love Carol Taylor Book Review Born in 1987, Jonathan Anthony Burkett has lived a young life that reads like fiction: vicious be...

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Held

by Idrissa Uqdah

Held Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Jehovah Rapha, The Lord Who Heals Author Leslie Haskin has written  a follow-up to her best seller, Between Heaven and Ground Zero, an account of her experiences...

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Long Train…

by Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Long Train… Jacqueline Jones LaMon Book Review One of the magical qualities of reading is that we are transported from who we are and all that we know to be true into other realms. We are intr...

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Black Faces in White Places

by Kam Williams

Black Faces in White Places Kam Williams Book Review "What do we mean by Black Faces in White Places? It is more than just a numbers game and being the only person of color in a predominantly wh...

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New England White

by Kam Williams

New England White Kam Williams Book Review ’I like writing [about] this world for the same reason that others like reading [about] it: the black upper class is a continuing fascination, an...

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Sundown Towns

by Kam Williams

Sundown Towns Kam Williams Book Review ’Beginning in about 1890 and continuing until 1968, white Americans established thousands of towns across the United States for whites only. A &rsqu...

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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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Oh God!

by Paige Turner

Oh God! Paige Turner Book Review Sexuality is an extremely powerful force and a very real and large component of everyone’s existence. Yet black churches, like most religions through the ages, ...

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Hunting In Harlem

by Thumper

Hunting In Harlem Thumper Book Review I am always excited when new authors enter the scene because they expand the dimensions of our existence through literature that is vibrant, challenging and im...

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Love

by Thumper

Love Thumper Book Review Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison released a new novel, adding another jewel to her already brilliant literary crown. Love, Morrison’s eighth novel, introduces...

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Riot and Remembrance

by Thumper

Riot and Remembrance Thumper Book Review Although some say that times and attitudes are changing, I’m rather skeptical. Only now am I aware of events, individuals that I should have been introd...

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Rising

by Thumper

Rising Thumper Book Review Rising, Darnella Ford’s fictional debut is explosive. It is the story of a young girl who lives through a number of tragic occurrences. Rising hits the ground runni...

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Howard Street

by Tony Lindsay

Howard Street Tony Lindsay Book Review Writers are introduced to the craft of writing through a variety avenues: reading, experience, teaching, and mimicking. Writers often copy the skill sets of tho...

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Charcoal Joe

by Tony Lindsay

Charcoal Joe Tony Lindsay Book Review What was refreshingly abundant in Walter Mosley’s Charcoal Joe was Black male characters. From strong Black men to Black men seeking guidance, the reader w...

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The King of No: A Financial Firefighter

by Robert Fleming

The King of No: A Financial Firefighter Robert Fleming Book Review Following 38 years in the investment business, Loyall Wilson assembles some of his financial know-how in this slender book, accumula...

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Unchon-ni: South Korea, I Remember 1962-63

by Robert Fleming

Unchon-ni: South Korea, I Remember 1962-63 Robert Fleming Book Review Codis Hampton III’s stirring account of his time in the military in South Korea was the first book produced by this veteran...

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Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics

by Robert Fleming

Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics Robert Fleming Book Review In this novel, Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics, Dr. M. J. Simms-Maddox weaves the fabric of her life with the narrat...

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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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The Pursuit of Porsha

by Robert Fleming

The Pursuit of Porsha Robert Fleming Book Review Those people who follow television and podcasts will recognize Porsha Williams, one of the stars of the popular reality show, The Real Housewives of...

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Hand-Me-Down Dreams

by Robert Fleming

Hand-Me-Down Dreams Robert Fleming Book Review Phillip Wilhite’s novel, Hand-Me-Down Dreams, happens in a period in the glory days of big-league sports during 1980, when the media and baseball ...

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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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The Birdcatcher

by Robert Fleming

The Birdcatcher Robert Fleming Book Review What the iconic African-American writer James Baldwin once told the young writers about the traditional stature of the prominent writers who put pen to pape...

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The Naked Truth

by Kam Williams

The Naked Truth Kam Williams Book Review ’I was born Marvelyn Brown, a little black girl in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 7, 1984, but I wouldn’t understand the signi...

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After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye

by Kam Williams

After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye Kam Williams Book Review “After her 17th birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye—the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid...

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What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

by Kam Williams

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Kam Williams Book Review “We live at a time when almost everything can be bought and sold… Over the past three decades, markets—...

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The History of White People

by Kam Williams

The History of White People Kam Williams Book Review "Most Americans envision whiteness as racially indivisible, though ethnically divided; this is the scheme anthropologists laid out in the mid ...

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Strange Fruit

by Paige Turner

Strange Fruit Paige Turner Book Review "Anatomy of a Mind Blowing Song"  One of the most deeply satisfying and thought provoking books traces the anatomy of a rarely remember song from...

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Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

by Kam Williams

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Kam Williams mimovieposter.jpg Film Review Cruise and Company Go Undercover for Dangerous Assignment in Russia Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Rated ...

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Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe)

by Kam Williams

Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe) Kam Williams paradise-love-movie-poster.jpg Film Review   Single-Mom Develops Jungle Fever in Kenya in Initial Installment of Incendiary Trilogy Paradise: Love...

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Without the King

by Kam Williams

Without the King Kam Williams withou27.jpg Film Review The Misadventures of Mswati in Swaziland Without the King Director - Michael Skolnik Run Time - 84 Minutes Language - English and siSwati Fo...

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Wrath of the Titans

by Kam Williams

Wrath of the Titans Kam Williams wrathoftitans_movieposter.jpg Film Review 3D Sequel’s Spectacular Showdown of the Gods Improves upon the Original Episode   Wrath of the Titans [2012] I...

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