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November 26, 2017
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A Teacher, A Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship
Michelle Kuo
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It takes courage to walk into a classroom when students don't look like you. It takes courage to return every day to teach a class when students devalue education. Media …
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Beverly Jenkins
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The Blessings Series continue with a heartwarming novel, Chasing Down a Dream (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017), about what makes a family when trials test relationships. And in Henry Adams, Kansas …
African American Studies
August 29, 2017
Conjuring Freedom
Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's 'Gospel Army'
Johari Jabir
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What is the labor for Black soldiers of the regiment? That is the question Johari Jabir asks in his book Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel …
African American Studies
August 26, 2017
Bricktop's Paris
African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
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When Dorothy Sterling wrote her book about nineteenth-century black women in America, she stated in the introduction that the book was not a definitive history of black women but a …
African American Studies
July 19, 2017
A Lucent Fire
New and Collected Poems
Patricia Spears Jones
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Jackson Poetry Prize Winner Speaks Patricia Spears Jones has been writing poetry since she was twenty and then she was "good." Today, the prolific poet is the winner of one …
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June 27, 2017
Ruth's Redemption
Marlene Banks
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It's A Love Story. Set in the 1800s, Ruth's Redemption (Lift Every Voice, 2012), is an unusual depiction of the lives of slaves and free blacks in pre-Civil War America …
African American Studies
June 20, 2017
Jaybird's Song
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Kathy Wilson Florence
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Josie Flint, known as Jaybird, narrates her story of life in Atlanta during the turbulent South as Jim Crow laws come to an end. Her school desegregates. The country meanders …
African American Studies
April 29, 2017
Primary Lessons
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Sarah Bracey White
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As an African-American child growing up in the segregated pre-Civil Rights South, Sarah Bracey White pushed against the social conventions that warned her not to rock the boat, even before …
African American Studies
April 5, 2017
Son of A Preacher Man &
Marlene Banks
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The tragic Tulsa Race Riots plus a smidgeon of romance equals to a compelling historical saga. Marlene Banks weaves fact and fiction together illustrating how law and culture may change …
African American Studies
March 29, 2017
Divas on the Screen
Black Women in American Film
Mia Mask
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Five charismatic women navigate uneven terrain of racial gender and class stereotypes: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey and Halle Berry. The quintet charisma, as explored by Dr …
African American Studies
March 25, 2017
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Quincy T. Mills
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Business. Community. Politics. That's the making of a barbershop. In Cutting Along the Color Lines: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), Dr. Quincy Mills …