Tag: #AfricanAmerican

• {Excerpt} A Little Devil in America : Notes in Praise of Black Performance by:Hanif Abdurraqib

  

  Soul Train was guided by Don Cornelius, who got his start as a backup disc jockey at Chicago radio station WVON. Cornelius was born in Chicago in 1936, as the era of dance marathons began to die down. He worked primarily as a news and sports reporter, but he spent his downtime emceeing a series…

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  March 8, 2021

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• {New Releases} February 10-16, 2020

  

  Hi Booklovers, I hope you are in good spirits and ready to buy some more books. There Is Confusion by:Jessie Redman Fauset A rediscovered classic about how racism and sexism tests the spirit, ambition, and character of three children growing up in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem, from the literary editor of The Crisis, the official…

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  February 10, 2020

  in Every Issue, New Releases

  #AfricanAmerican, #Autobiography, #Biography, #Black, #CulturalHeritage, #Harvard, #HoughtonMifflinHarcourt, #JeanneEllsworth, #KentGarrett, #TheLastNegroesatHarvard, @bryantterry, @DWBdocumentary, @HappyHairGirls, @RashadJennings, @TenSpeedPress, @tonyaboldenbook, Arcade and the Fiery Metal Tester by:Rashad Jennings, Cool Cuts by:Mechel Renee Roe, Driving While Black by:Gretchen Sorin, Eunice and Kate by:Mariana Llanas, Henry Holt and Co., Romance in Marseille by:Claude McKay, Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing by:Tonya Bolden, The Last Negroes At Harvard by:Kent Garrett, There Is Confusion by:Jessie Redman Fauset, Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes by:Bryant Terry, Who Did It First? 50 Politicians Activists and Entrepreneurs Who Revolutionized the World by:Jay Leslie