Hord focuses upon his relationship with his father, but other poems of love, friendship, and commitment to activism are included in this book.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Taking Bullets
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Taking Bullets: Black Boys and Men in Twenty-First Century America Fighting Terrorism, Stopping Violence, and Seeking Healing starts a national debate on Black male empowerment with an urgency for the survival of a generation of Black men and boys who are confronted with disparity and adversity on the streets of every city in America. Haki Madhubuti speaks directly to these young men with an empathic understanding of their plight, yet he sees hope and a vision for their future. In Taking Bullets, he challenges community leaders, educators, and all of those individuals who directly impact the lives of our young men to develop sustained strategies to confront and challenge the systematic problems of police violence, mass incarceration and economic disparity.
Asa G. Hilliard
Testing African American Students
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Educational experts and psychologists expound upon the handling of testing and language for African American students.
Allyson Horton
Quick Fire
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With prose covering such relevant topics as abuse, racism, slavery, and sexism to music, hope,
Haki R. Madhubuti
Heartlove
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These essential meditations on commitment will bring pleasure and reassurance while confirming one's belief in the power of love.
Useni Eugene Perkins
Harvesting New Generations
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A comprehensive exposition on Black youth, this study provides a careful analysis of their problems--personal, societal and institutional--as well as potential solutions for the future.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Family Pictures
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Family Pictures is a collection of poems dedicated to her friends and fighting against global anti=blackness
Sterling Plumpp
Black Rituals
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Sterling Plumpp contrasts the rituals of Africa with African American rituals that have emerged in the twentieth century.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Words Work Volume 1/Number 1 1991
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Rare Black Books Bulletin Newspaper From 1991. In this Issue: Dr. Anderson Thompson on a new African World Order, Black books a growing industry?
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Volume 7/Number 3 1981
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Rare Black Books Bulletin From 1981. In this Issue: Land & Survival (Haki R. Madhubuti), Mobile Lynching's (Leonard Sykes), New Orleans/ Banana Republic (Kalamu ya Salaam).
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Volume 1/Number 3 1972
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Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1972. In this Issue: BBB Interviews Historian Lerone Bennett, "Frank Yerby, Golden Debunker" Darwin Turner, "What Good the Word Without the Wisdom? or 'English Ain't Relevant' " David Llorens. Reviews by Joyce Ladner and Sam Greenlee. Reviews of works of Chester Himes, Grier and Cobbs, Sam Cornish, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Volume 1/Fall 1971
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Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1971. The First Edition of Black Books Bulletin. In this Issue: BBB Interviews the Editor of BLACK WORLD, Hoyt W. Fuller, "Cultural Nationalism: The Black Novelist in America," Addison Gayle, "Blues, Soul, and Black Identity: The Forms of Things
Kalamu ya Salaam
Precise Tenderness
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With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted us another amazing collection of poetry. This volume is a unique exploration of haiku fueled by his seemingly boundless imagination, deft wordplay, and Black Aesthetic wanderings. This creative master artfully paints the page while orchestrating blues/jazz/gospel soundings. "Falling is minor," writes the poet in Haiku #13. What's major is how the poet soars and gets our spirits to fly as we read. Whether issuing political commentary, musing about love and self-inspection, or making his characteristic and inevitable visit to erotica, Kalamu ya Salaam is an immensely profound and inspiring craftsperson. This collection is not only precise tenderness. It is precise brilliance.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Taught By Women (Paperback)
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Taught By Women, Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected by Haki R. Madhubuti, marks a return to his roots. It is his first single-authored book of poetry in over nine years. In it, he pays homage to the many women who have influenced him and contributed to his unique worldview. Readers are urged not to forget various women who have nurtured, encouraged, challenged and strengthened us despite our sometimes dismal circumstances. Madhubuti asks that we remember these women, long distance runners, who give hope, optimism and courage to the next generation of children who need their strength, perseverance and quiet power.
Wade W. Nobles
Seeking the Sakhu
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A complete discussion of the history and principles of African-centered psychology, this work explores the development of the African American mindset in society and reveals the thought processes of the African mind in America.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Run Toward Fear
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Run Toward Fear offers readers a mixture of poems that challenge and cause both reflection on and questioning about many headline issues that have launched this century. Madhubuti includes poignant moving tributes to Jacob Carruthers, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, as well as heartfelt words that provide comfort and guidance to the families of the 21 people who lost their lives in Chicago's E-2 nightclub tragedy. The final section of the book, ""A Poet's Handbook,"" provides personal and sometimes anecdotal insights on the craft of writing poetry.
Christine List
The Screenwriter's Guidebook
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Christine Houston wrote Two Twenty Seven, a play about her childhood growing up at
T. M. Stringfellow
More Than Dancing
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Challenging modern America's perspective on love, history, and race relations, these poems deviate from such techniques as free verse and abstraction to concentrate on structured forms such as odes and Italian sonnets. The unifying idea of the book also comes from the classics: the poet views black artists as Prometheus figures, giving fire and inspiration to American culture even when they are barely acknowledged. The poetry's message, however, is gritty and emotional--and sometimes deliberately sentimental--as it pits the joys of love, romance, and racial pride against the sorrows of slavery and segregation.
Hoyt W. Fuller
Journey to Africa
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A candid memoir of an African American's journey to a continent which bears the scars of centuries of oppression, this volume looks at Africa head-on, full of honesty and devoid of romanticism.
Joyce Ann Joyce
Ijala (Paperback)
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A landmark critical approach to the study of African American poetry, this seminal work sanctions the view that the voices of the Black Arts Movement are valid areas of scholarly inquiry.
Ginger Mance
I Say a Prayer for You Black Men
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This book-length poem is a love poem and prayer to all Black men, a wake-up call for America to atone for its injustices towards Black men, and a voice of instruction for Black women.
Mawuli Davis
We Need You!
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In honor of the heroic role youth played in the Civil Rights Movement Third World Press releases We Need You
James E. Cherry
Honoring the Ancestors
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The frustration, anger, and restlessness caused by African American oppression are exorcised in this moving collection of poetry. Speaking initially from the perspective of black struggle, these works evolve to invoke the common denominator of all humanity. A familiar voice laments the feelings of a shared past, including tributes to Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Muhammad Ali, as well as non-African American icons such as Che Guevara, ultimately offering a more thoughtful and transcendental vision of human suffering and injustice.
Donald G. Evans
Wherever I'm At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry
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The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame has partnered with Chicago publishers After Hours Press and Third World Press to produce a definitive collection of poetry by living Chicago poets. Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry features the work of a widely diverse list of over 160 poets and artists all with strong ties to Chicagoland. With a Foreword by noted scholar Carlo Rotello, the new anthology is edited by Donald G. Evans (executive director of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame) who completed the project begun by the late poet-editor-teacher Robin Metz formerly of Knox College.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Honoring Genius
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For over thirty years, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Haki R. Madhubuti shared a unique literary and personal relationship. In this latest volume of his work, Madhubuti, a renowned poet in his own right, pays tribute to Brooks' legacy and memory with this collection of poems that he produced during those years. He also offers two essays and a selection of newer poems to express his gratitude and show his great respect for this literary giant.
Sterling Plumpp
Home/Bass
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Home/Bass ""brings to the forefront the myriad of folks that inhabit the up-South streets of Chicago or the unaltered roads of Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and other pockets inhabited by Blacks throughout the South. Sterling Plumpp has lived with these folks--sharecroppers, preachers, misplaced Mississippi blues men and women. He has been in their houses, has dined at their tables, and has drunk at the bars on the corners. He is not a stranger to their articulations--voices that call to him from a Natchez cemetery, from the outskirts of some Mississippi Delta town, or settle on Maxwell Street in Chicago--all through the observant and often omnipresent lens of blues artist Willie Kent. Plumpp is always mindful of the slow, steady rhythms of the blues, not as backdrop, but as the foundation and framework on which he structures the components of this book. With the publication of ""Home/Bass, ""Plumpp has once again captured the very essence of language and the blues from the inside out.
Regina Jennings
Race, Rage, and Roses
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In this collection, Regina Jennings' poems passionately reveal the beauty and tragedy of women in the Black Panther Party and beyond. She explores the often haunting reality of growing up Black and female during the spirited, tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. In spare, often brutally honest narrative verse, Jennings spins stories of home, homelessness, and rebuilding home.
