Tag: Beyonce
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{New Releases} Jan 29-Feb 4, 2018
Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.…
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{Excerpt} Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be by:Valerie Graves
INTRODUCTION MINING FOR GOLD IN MUDDY WATER . . . RETURNING THE PAGE The city of Pontiac, Michigan was celebrating its 150th birthday in March 2011, and my role in the festivities was “hometown girl made good.” Being honored as a lifetime achiever by Pontiac is no small thing—my hometown has produced two Olympic gold…
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{Book Attraction} There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by:Morgan Parker
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance, depression, isolation, exoticism, racism, femininity, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism, examining and confronting modern media, consumption, feminism, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity…
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{Book Attraction} Becoming Beyoncé : The Untold Story by: J. Randy Taraborrelli
The first comprehensive biography ever published about America’s favorite living pop icon, Beyoncé, from New York Times bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli. Beyoncé Knowles is a woman who began her career at the age of eight performing in pageant shows and talent contests, honing her craft through her teenage years until, at the age of…
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