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The Acquittal Not Guilty of Love: The Jamieson (Vol 4)

by Pat Simmons

The Acquittal Not Guilty of Love: The Jamieson (Vol 4) Pat Simmons 9781480094826 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Two worlds apart, but their hearts dance to the same African drum beat. On...

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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

by Angela Y. Davis

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday Angela Y. Davis 9780679771265 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House From one of this country’s most important in...

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L. E. Rainey

L. E. Rainey NONE L.E. Rainey, a first-time children's book author and experienced grandmother, penned 'Sad Sam, Glad Sam' using her knack for storytelling developed from years of reading bedtime sto...

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In): A Play

by August Wilson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Movie Tie-In): A Play August Wilson 9780593184967 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winn...

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Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom

by Cortez R. Rainey

Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom Cortez R. Rainey 9781492769200 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Although more and more Americans are practicing meditati...

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Pittsburgh Cycle set in 1927)

by August Wilson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Pittsburgh Cycle set in 1927) August Wilson 9780573681134 Fiction Samuel French Inc Samuel French Inc Play with music Characters: 8 males (5 black, 3 white) 2 black females S...

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1920s Century Cycle)

by August Wilson

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1920s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452261136 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama C...

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Cortez R. Rainey

Cortez R. Rainey NONE

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Sad Sam, Glad Sam

by L. E. Rainey

Sad Sam, Glad Sam L. E. Rainey 9780978552107 Fiction Shoetree Publishers Shoetree Publishers Sam Morgan is having a grumpy day. Things go from bad to worse when her favorite doll is torn apart by the ...

Articles

Hyena Women and Other Strange Tales of Social Chaos

by L. E. Rainey

Hyena Women and Other Strange Tales of Social Chaos L. E. Rainey Article Several years ago I watched a documentary about a pride of lions and a pack of hyenas living in the African savannah. By e...

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Gone to Where the Bong Trees Grow

by L. E. Rainey

Gone to Where the Bong Trees Grow L. E. Rainey Article The next time you pick up a picture book written by a contemporary children’s author flip through the pages. Take a few minutes to...

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

by James E. Clyburn

The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation James E. Clyburn 9780316572743 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group From one of America’...

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Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion

by Lerone A. Martin

Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion Lerone A. Martin 9781479890958 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The overlooked Africa...

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Still Guilty (Guilty series) (Volume 3)

by Pat Simmons

Still Guilty (Guilty series) (Volume 3) Pat Simmons 9781500408299 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Cheney Reynolds Jamieson made a choice years ago that is now shaping her future and the f...

Interview

Interview with Angela Bassett

by Kam Williams

Interview with Angela Bassett Kam Williams Interview Born in New York City, but raised by her single-mom, Betty, along with her sister, D’nette, in St. Petersburg, Florida, Angela ...

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Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 9780195387957 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Th...

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August Wilson Century Cycle

by August Wilson

August Wilson Century Cycle August Wilson 9781559363075 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (10 plays covering 10 decades) 1900s - ...

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Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition)

by Donald Bogle

Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America’s Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition) Donald Bogle 9780826416759 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing With a wink or a nod, a shake...

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Blues Poems

by Kevin Young

Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...

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Stagolee Shot Billy

by Cecil Brown

Stagolee Shot Billy Cecil Brown 9780674010567 Fiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Although his story has been told countless times—by performers from Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, an...

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Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance

by James Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson

Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance James Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson 9780471211525 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why y...

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African American Musicians

by Eleanora E. Tate

African American Musicians Eleanora E. Tate 9780471253563 Fiction Wiley Wiley Meet the black musicians who created Americais greatest music—from the early years to modern times Marian Anderson Louis "...

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Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, And Commentaries

by Yusef Komunyakaa

Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, And Commentaries Yusef Komunyakaa 9780472066513 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyak...

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King Hedley II (1980s Century Cycle)

by August Wilson

King Hedley II (1980s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9781559362603 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, ...

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The Piano Lesson (1930s Century Cycle)

by August Wilson

The Piano Lesson (1930s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452265349 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black expe...

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Fences (1950s Century Cycle)

by August Wilson

Fences (1950s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452264014 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House  The 1987 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaFrom August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-...

Authors

August Wilson

August Wilson 0000000368634467 August Wilson (1945-2005), two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright, is renowned for his Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of 10 plays each set in a unique ...

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Viola Davis

Viola Davis 0000000114894234 Viola Davis is an award-winning actress and producer recognized globally for her roles in “How to Get Away with Murder,” “Fences,” and “The Help.” Besides earning an Acad...

Book Review

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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