Black Issues Book Review

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Latest documents

• Cave Canem.
• In the beginning was the word ... Donda West--an English professor who has written a book about raising her hip-hop superstar son, Kanye West--reflects on issues of language, literacy and creativity.
• The route to riches: business strategists and entrepreneurs map the way to make more green in a recent crop of books.
• Nothing But Drama.
• Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
• The Sacred Place.
• To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic.
• Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing.
• A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports.
• Answered Prayer Guaranteed! The Power of Praying with Faith.

Featured documents

• Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny.
• The Covenant with Black America.
• Fresh breezes: spend the summer discovering new writers.
• Large and in charge: people who are making it and making a difference in the book industry.
• Let's talk about sex! Novelist Jill Nelson (Sexual Healing) and cultural critic Tricia Rose (Longing to Tell) compare notes on how today's sisters think and feel about sexuality and intimacy.
• South of canal street: the new earth.
• Sibling rivalries: literary poetry versus spoken word: why does the divide exist and what does it mean?
• Hot summer reads: something hot, not too heavy: sizzling selections for summer: the books everybody will be reading and talking about this summer, or at least the ones the publishers hope will catch fire.
• Starting here, starting now: the basics of getting your book into print.
• This property is not condemned: Bebe Moore Campbell introduces BIBR readers to prize-winning Author Valerie Martin in a cross-racial dialogue on the challenges of writing novels about race and social change.