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
Mzee Lasana Okpara (Fred Lee Hord)
Straight Wobblings of My Father
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Hord focuses upon his relationship with his father, but other poems of love, friendship, and commitment to activism are included in this book.
Nora Brooks Blakely
Seasons (Paperback)
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Seasons: A Gwendolyn Brooks Experience captures her life and work in a new book filled with thematic collections of her poetry and prose; photos; memories from family, friends, peers and mentees and gripping illustrations from the award-winning artist, Jan Spivey Gilchrist. Now more than ever the words of Gwendolyn Brooks demonstrate their continued relevance in the 21st century. The national centennial celebration is one part of a resurgence of appreciation for her powerful work and the impact she had on 20th century literature as well as the Black Arts Movement.
Christine List
The Screenwriter's Guidebook
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Christine Houston wrote Two Twenty Seven, a play about her childhood growing up at
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live
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The poems are penned by a South African who observed and absorbed the culture of African Americans. These verses contain his observations of this Black culture and the connections with his native South Africa.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Medasi (CD)
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A spoken word audio CD that features Haki Madhubuti and the Afrikan Liberation Arts Ensemble.
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.
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.
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.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Winnie
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A group of poems dedicated to Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela who was the first indigenous leader to hold the office of President of the Republic of South Africa.
George Kent
Blackness and the Adventure of Western Culture
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Jonathan Tilove
Along Martin Luther King
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BUT PAUSE ON KING, begin talking to folks, and the clutter, the noise of the rest of America falls away, and you are transported beyond the sometimes battered facade into a black America that, with astonishing welcome, reveals itself as not only more separate and self-contained than imagined but also more tightly interconnected, powerfully whole. Many black people have moved beyond the neighborhoods through which King runs (though there are now King streets in new black suburbs), but few live beyond the reach of the sounds, sentiments, and stories rooted on King. These are streets united by struggle and circumstance, by history and happenstance. One King street leads to the next and next and back again. For many whites, a street sign that says Martin Luther King tells them they are lost. For many blacks, a street sign that says Martin Luther King tells them they are found.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Volume 8 Special Edition 1991
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Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1991. The Challenge Of the 21st Century. New Understandings: Gwendolyn Brooks, Frances Cress Welsing, Useni Eugene Perkins, Vivian Gordon, Chinua Achebe, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Woodie King, Jr. New Directions: Darwin Turner, Derrick Bell, Pearl Cleage, Kalamu ya Salaam, Safisha Madhubuti, Conrad Worrill, Molefi Kete Asante
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Words Work Volume 16/Number 1 & 2
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Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1993. Black Studies, African-Centered Studies, Afrocentricity: The Ongoing Debate: Vivian Gordon, Molefi Asante, Marcia Sutherland, Joyce Ann Joyce, Bakari Kitwana, Robert L. Perry. New Poetry: Amiri Baraka, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Doughtry "Doc" Long, Sterling Plumpp.
Nicole Mitchell
Liberation Narratives (CD)
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In 2014, Mitchell was commissioned by the Jazz Institute of Chicago to write music inspired by the poetry of Haki Madhbuti. Liberation Narratives, the latest release by composer, flautist and conceptualist Nicole Mitchell, will be released by the notable African-American publisher, Third World Press. The founder and director of Third World Press is named Haki R. Madhubuti. The album features Madhubuti reading his own poetry spanning his entire career from the 1960s to the present. Known formerly as Don L. Lee, he was a protege of Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African-American poet to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
Cathy Jackson-Gent
Surviving Financially in a Rigged System
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Cathy Jackson-Gent provides instruction about how to avoid such financial mishaps. She represents a kind of public intellectual, a field that is top heavy with those aim is to change the attitudes of millions of Whites about race. Such public intellectuals, religious and secular, perform a service. But Cathy is telling Blacks how to survive in a time when the attitude towards Blacks held by the Democratic Party is benign neglect and that of the Republican Party is benign extermination, which explains Katrina and Flint.
Aneb Kgositsile
Shrines
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This collection of poetry explores the intimate beauty of our most sacred places. The landscape of these poems is as far-reaching as the continent of Africa and as close as the next room.
Virginia Lewis
Short Stories from a Long Career
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Dr. Lewis gives instructions on how to teach by recounting some of her personal experiences in brief and pointed paragraphs.
Adenike Marie Davidson
The Black Nation Novel
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Examining early African American literature from the perspective of a Black Nationalist literary critic, this analysis explores important novels from the 19th and 20th centuries. The discussion demonstrates that Black Nationalist themes were present in many early novels, prefiguring the themes that would become the centerpiece of the Black Power Movement. One of the few books that examines early African American novels, this definitive exploration of them adds to the discussion of black literature and literary criticism.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Report from Part Two (Hardcover)
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Musings and notes about the life, the family, and travels of Gwendolyn Brooks that is a reprise of a prior book, ""Report from Part One,"" published by Broadside Press in 1972. Brooks was the Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986. This volume includes her introductions of visiting writers during that period.
