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

• Blair Underwood goes for the greenlight: a six-year journey to develop and star in a film based on Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep catches fire in a partnership with an enthusiastic studio. Here's the story so far in bringing one popular black novel to the screen.
• Natalie Cole Owns Her Life.
• Spoken words: storytelling festivals continue the griot tradition.
• From the editor-in-chief.
• From the Streets to the Ivory Tower.
• 2002: 365, 24-7: the many faces of African American theme calendars.
• BIBR's Sixth Annual Poetry Issue.
• Bibr recommends.
• Other Men's Wives.
• Fresh breezes: spend the summer discovering new writers.