Black Issues Book Review articles from January 2001

Black Issues Book Review archives from January 2001

from the editor-in-chief.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... Anniversaries are for lovers, and in our case, book lovers. This is BIBR's second anniversary issue, and as you explore its pages please celebrate with us. Statistics show that most new magazines never make it to this point, so this anniversary...

Probing Our Differences.(African Americans)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... If, as in W.E.B. Du Bois' famous observation, the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line, then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of difference. Back in 1993, dramatist and actor Anna Deavere...

letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... DEAR EDITOR, Thank you for such an informative and insightful magazine. It's good to know that there is a bastion of African Americans who are involved with the cultivation of black literature! --Geoffrey D. Holman Asbury Park, NJ ...

Deals.(book publishing news)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Shaq is bouncing back into the book world, and fans of the gentle giant have something new to look forward to. He won a 2000 NBA championship ring, and now he's snagged a book deal. In January 2001, St. Martin's Press will release Shaquille...

The Trick of Transcending Race.(Jean Toomer)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Harlem Renaissance literary giant Jean Toomer was an anxious draft dodger in the wars between the races Jean Toomer's grudging acceptance of a colleague's praise for the portrayal of the black South in Cane, his seminal work, fairly...

on the shelf.(black literature)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... As an "African American" identity becomes more deeply woven into the fabric of our existence, blackness has taken on an increasingly radical connotation (again). In some parts of the world, anyone who's not white is called black. Recently I...

A Day Late and A Dollar Short.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Day Late and A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan Viking, January 2001, $25.95 ISBN 0-670-89676-4 McMillan's fifth novel is a tale of family secrets, tragedies and triumphs. Set primarily in Las Vegas in 1994, this is the story of Viola and...

Shadow Dancing.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Shadow Dancing by Louise Meriwether One World/Ballantine, August 2000, $12.95, ISBN 0-374-22676-8 The distinctive voice of this widely acclaimed author of the classic, Daddy Was A Numbers Runner (Feminist Press, 1986) rings through the...

Mamzelle Dragonfly.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Mamzelle Dragonfly by Raphael Confiant Farrar, Straus and Giroux, July 2000, $22.00, ISBN 0-374-19932-9 Those readers unfamiliar with the frankness with which Caribbean writers illustrate a brutal and disdainful regard for black women held...

Nappily Ever After.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Napilly Ever After by Trisha R. Thomas Crown Publishers, December 2000, $22.00, ISBN 0-609-60583-6 Venus Johnson's cry for freedom echoes throughout this gripping page-turner as a series of self-revealing choices. Defying the pleas of her...

The Future Has A Past.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Future Has A Past by J. California Cooper Doubleday, October 2000, $23.95, ISBN 0-385-49680-X Readers rejoice! This gifted storyteller is back and her newest release is worth the wait. Cooper's latest collection of short stories delves...

Romance ...(Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2001... When you want love in the air, you can't miss steaming it up with these hot new fiction and romance selections! At The Full and Change Of the Moon by Dionne Brand Grove Press, September 2000, $13.50, ISBN 0-802-13723-7 The story begins...

If I Could.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... If I Could by Donna Hill Kensington Books, November 2000, $17, ISBN 1-575-66597-2 Hill's story of the divergent lives of female friends opens in 1985, when Regina, Toni and Victoria, who met as students at Columbia University, are in their...

The Maintenance Man.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Maintenance Man by Michael Baisden Simon Schuster, October 2000, $13.00, ISBN 0-743-20478-1 In today's literature many authors are not willing to make the protagonist of their book a stereotype. While at times exaggerated, Baisden...

Blackgammon.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Blackgammon by Heather Neff One World/Ballantine, October 2000, $24.00 ISBN 0-345-43611-13 Blackgammon is a game of skill and chance. In Neff's new novel, the characters play while we, the audience, watch each skillful--or clumsy--move...

Nkiru Preserving a Legacy.(African American bookstore)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The best is yet to come for a Brooklyn cultural institution Nkiru: in Ibo, it means "the best is yet to come." In Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, it is also the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn. It began in 1976 in the...

It's All in the Prose.(actress Ruby Dee)
January 1, 2001... Acclaimed actor Ruby Dee talks about how audiobooks are useful in our changing times As our lives become more hectic, technology offers busy book lovers--in this era of multitasking--a great way to enjoy a "book" as a leisure activity,...

The Bluest Eye.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, read by Lynn Thigpen Recorded Books, $51.00, ISBN 0-788-74354-6, 5 cassettes, 6 hour total listening time Award-winning actress Lynn Thigpen delivers an astonishingly true-to-life performance of one of...

The Intuitionist.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, read by Peter Jay Fernandez Recorded Books, $62.00, ISBN 0-7887-4323-6, 7 cassettes Whitehead's first novel about the world of elevators, and the lives of people who run them, is a wonderful mix of...

Not A Day Goes By.(Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2001... Not A Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris, read by Rocky Carroll Random House, $25.95, ISBN 0-553-50253-0, 4 cassettes, total listening time 6 hours Carroll's smooth voice is a perfect match for this sexually charged latest novel from E. Lynn...

Far From the Tree.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Far From the Tree by Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant, read by Fran L. Washington Brilliance Audio, $35.00, ISBN 1-56740-381-6, 8 cassettes approx. 12 hours, unabridged This audio production of DeBerry and Grant's popular story of a family...

Iyanla Live!(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Iyanla Live! [4 tape series] by Iyanla Vanzant, performed by the author Simon and Schuster, $12.00, each volume approx. 1 hour Commitment, ISBN 0-7435-0012-1, Love, ISBN 0-7435-0011-3 Faith, ISBN 0-671-78482-x, Self Value, Self Worth, Self...

The Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Underground Railroad featuring Harriet Tubman by Joe Loesch, as performed by Narrator Toy Box Prod., $16.95, ISBN 0-553-50253-0, 1 CD, 72 minutes total listening time All aboard! The time traveler's adventure-the Underground Railroad...

Heritage Not Hate: Discovering Gullah and Finding Myself.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Heritage Not Hate: Discovering Gullah and Finding Myself by Marina Smalls performed by the authors and the Hallelujah Singers Ziplow Productions, $14.95, ISBN 1-889-97403-X, 1 CD, approx. 90 minutes Smalls' engaging personal narrative and...

Duke Ellington.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
January 1, 2001... Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney read by Forest Whitaker Disney, $16.95, ISBN 0-786-80178-6, 1 CD, approx. 1 hour Through this imaginative recount of the Duke's rise to stardom, the reader can almost feel the cool...

Bud, Not Buddy.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, as told by James Avery Random House, $22.00, ISBN 0-553-52675-8, 3 cassettes, aprox. 4 hours total listening time This audio book is accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack, reminiscent of what Herman...

Ordinary Resurrections.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Ordinary Resurrections by Jonathan Kozol, as read by Dick Hill Brilliance Audio, $29.95, ISBN 1-56740-370-0, 6 of cassettes total listening time 9 hours Dick Hill boldly discusses issues that plague inner city America, where the children...

Black Like Who?(multiracial authors)
January 1, 2001... Young authors stir up the melting pot of racial identity It's like there are shock troops stationed on both sides of the color line, taking aim at those of us born in the biracial zone. A woman shrieked at me during an author's debate: "You...

Language and Voice.(black authors)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... When is it distinctively Black? We speak in magical voices whether we are from Harlem or Senegal, Nigeria or Detroit, Los Angeles or Kenya, Jamaica or London, Rio de Janeiro or Panama. Blacks in America sing or speak an African American or...

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton BOA Editions, Ltd., April 2000, $15.00, ISBN 1-880-23888-8 For the uninitiated reader, who still may mistake spare lines of poetry for a lack of content, I highly...

You Can't Keep Simmons Down on the Phat Farm.(entertainer Russell Simmons)
January 1, 2001... "Def Poetry Jam" slam dunks the spoken word He did it with rap. He did it with comedy. Russell Simmons, the man who popularized everyone from LL Cool J to DMX thorough his eponymous hip-hop record company, to Bernie Mac and Martin Lawrence...

Psychic Unrest.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Psychic Unrest by Lillian Allen Insomniac Press, 1999, $9.99 ISBN 1-895-83755-3 Few poetic works capture the complexity that language, race and gender play in the lives of black folk, with the clarity and intellect that Canadian poet...

Blues Narratives.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Blues Narratives by Sterling Plumpp Tia Chucha Press, April 1999, $10.95, ISBN 1-882-68820-1 Carl Sandburg Award-winning poet Sterling Plumpp hollers blues onto each page of text, fashioning work songs from the mouths of kin to eulogize...

Kupenda: Love Poems.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Kupenda: Love Poems By Kwame Alexander BlackWords Press, August 2000, $9.95, ISBN 1-888-01823-2 The title of Kwame Alexander's latest collection of poems (Kupenda is Swahili for "to like" or "to want") is enough to create interest in the...

Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Lyric: Poems Along a Broken Road by G. Winston James Grapevine Press, February 2000, $12.00, ISBN 0-9655117-1-5 The flaring tongues and earnest voices laced through James' first collection of poetry welcome the reader into the family of...

Black.(author Steve Cannon)
January 1, 2001... Bohemia's Tribal Elder Steve Cannon, an institution in New York's Lower East Side's multicultural artistic community since 1962, continues to feed cutting-edge literary, musical and visual expression The sole reason you may not be...

Writing On Her Own Ground.(author C. J. Walker)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... For at least a decade I danced around the inevitable, knowing all the while that my soul would not rest until I had written my great-grandmother's biography. Even before I could read, as I walked past her photograph and touched her belongings,...

Danger Black-on-Black.(dissent among black authors, 'Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences,' by Ward Connerly)
January 1, 2001... What happens to our public conversation when black writers and thinkers bitterly disagree? Eight black authors ponder the perils and profits of controversy and dissent--the threats and the opportunities presented by so-called dangerous books...

One Black Man's Fight Against Everybody.(Review)
January 1, 2001... One Black Man's Fight Against Everybody Creating Equal: My Fight Agaisnt Race Preferences by Ward Connerly Encounter Books, February 2000, $24.95, ISBN 1-893-55404-X Ward Connerly is angry because there are still instances in his country...

CONSTRUCTING BLACK HISTORY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... History and memory are not gods, and a painting cannot resurrect or undo the past. However, our desire to be made whole is inextricably entangled in a web of history, memory and visual representation. Recalling, forgetting, recording,...

KING: THE PHOTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... KING: THE PHOTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. by Charles Johnson and Bob Adelman Viking Studio, November 2000, $40.00, ISBN 0-670-89216-5 Many of us have a favorite book, movie or play that we can experience time and again finding...

KAY HASSAN.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... KAY HASSAN by Cantz Hatfel Diamler Chrysler, November 2000, $35.00, ISBN 3-775-70918-5 Although Kay Hassan's collage paper constructions are large, they are only fragments that represent intimate pieces of South Africa's past and present...

THE WALTER O. EVANS COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... THE WALTER O. EVANS COLLECTION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ART by Andrea Barnwell The Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature & University of Washington Press June 2000, $40.00, ISBN 0-295-97920-8 This catalogue updates our knowledge...

WIFREDO AND HELENA: MY LIFE WITH WIFREDO LAM, 1939-1950.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WIFREDO AND HELENA: MY LIFE WITH WILFREDO LAM, 1939-1950 by Helena Benitez Acatos Editions, August 2000, $60.00, ISBN 2-940-03357-9 Helena Benitez' memoir of the ten years she spent with the artist is a tale of admiration, adoration and...

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... KERRY JAMES MARSHALL Kerry James Marshall, Terrie Sultan, Arthur Jafa Abrams Publishing, November 2000, $29.95, ISBN 0-810-93527-9 When you stand before a Kerry James Marshall painting, with or without previous knowledge of the history of...

ZWARTE PIET.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ZWARTE PIET by Anna Fox, with text by Mieke Bal Black Dog Publications Ltd., January 2000, $34.95 ISBN 1-901-033386-4 Zwarte Piet (Black Peter), a mischievous, black-faced attendant to Sinterklaas (a Dutch version of Santa Claus) is the...

WITHOUT SANCTUARY.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WITHOUT SANCTUARY James Allen, Hilton Als, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack Twin Palms Press, February 2000, $60.00, ISBN 0-944-09269-1 In 1960, two young Georgia boys were riding bikes on a country road when they saw the body of a black man...

PALACE SCULPTURES OF ABOMEY: HISTORY TOLD ON WALLS.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... PALACE SCULPTURES OF ABOMEY: HISTORY TOLD ON WALLS by Francesca Pique and Leslie H. Rainer with Jerome C. Alladaye Rachida de Souza-Ayari and Suzanne Preston Blier The Getty Conservation Institute February 2000, $45.00, ISBN 0-892-36869-2 ...

TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE: CONTEMPORARY ART IN AND OUT OF AFRICA.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE: CONTEMPORARY ART IN AND OUT OF AFRICA by Michael D. Harris Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill, January 2000 ISBN 0-295-9793-X The dialogue between contemporary African and African American artists has been stunted...

Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker Riverhead, January 2001, $23.95, ISBN 1-573-22169-4 "With the rise of Black Power, my parents' interracial defiance, so in tune with the radicalism of Dr. King and...

Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois by Gerald Horne NYU Press, September 2000, $28.95, ISBN 0-814-78120-9 Shirley Graham Du Bois was a study in chameleon-like socio-political achievement during her event-filled and sometimes...

Black History--Black Now.(recent nonfiction titles on African American history)
January 1, 2001... Delve into your past, create awareness of your present, to understand your future with these recent nonfiction titles addressing the civil, social and political history of African America. In Her Footsteps: 101 Remarkable Black Women from...

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and The American Century by David Levering Lewis Henry Holt & Co., October 2000, Price, ISBN 0-8050-2534-0 Du Bois is probably the most written about African American intellectual of the twentieth...

African American Literary Theory: A Reader.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... African American Literary Theory: A Reader edited by Winston Napier New York University Press, July 2000, $29.95 ISBN 0-8147-5810-X Even for the enthusiastic reader, literary theory may represent a vacuum of over-intellectualism that...

Black Like Who?(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Black Like Who? by Rinaldo Walcott Insomniac Press, October 2000, $15.99 ISBN 1-895-83707-3 Hip hop and pop culture in Canada is not often a hot topic among African Americans. This new book by educator and black pop culture critic, Rinaldo...

Into and Out Dislocation.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Into and Out Dislocation by C.S. Giscombe North Point Press, May 2000, $24,00, ISBN 0-865-47541-5 This appropriately titled book describes the dislocations of race, and the overlapping and sometimes conflicting alienations and...

Black Man Emerging -- Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Black Man Emerging -- Facing the Past and Seizing a Future in America by James L. White and James H. Cones III Routhledge, August 2000, $16.95, ISBN 0-415-92572-X Trying to repair the damage of racism on the black male ego is a formidable...

Everything Women of Color Should Know About Cosmetic Surgery.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Everything Women of Color Should Know About Cosmetic Surgery by Dr. Jan Adams St. Martin's Press, December 2000, $24.95, ISBN 0-312-25310-9 Happy New Year! Now what were those resolutions again? Perhaps the natural course of aging or...

A New Me in the New Millennium.(self-improvement books)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... New Year, new century--the time has come again to create a new you? This time let's make it last past February! You know that part of your self neglected because your life is too busy and demanding. Remember last year's New Year resolution to...

Resolution 2001: Taking Care of Our Selves.(books on health)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Every year many of us make resolutions to take better care of ourselves, and arm ourselves with the determination to get or remain healthy. Many of the discrepancies in our health statistics are in our power to control. By eating well,...

The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Greatest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms, forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alyson Books, $16.95, January 2001, ISBN 1-5.55-83564-3 Constantine-Simms has gathered scholars, historians and...

Rosa Parks.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley Penguin Lives, February 2000, $19.95 ISBN 0-670-89160-6 Until Douglas Brinkley's biography, most biographical treatments of the woman who became a symbol of civil disobedience and courage have been intended...

Last Man Standing--The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Last Man Standing--The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt by Jack Olsen Doubleday, October 2000, $26.95 ISBN 0-384-49367-3 If you've ever had any doubt that the scales of justice are sometimes unbalanced, then you need to read Olsen's...

The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America by Jon Michael Spencer NYU Press, October 2000, $18.00, ISBN 0-8147-8072-5 In copious and occasionally capricious text, Spencer critically examines the history of racial mixing in...

The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities by Lawrence C. Ross, Jr. Kensington Books, 1999, $16.00, ISBN 1-575-66634-0 Ross' title refers to the nine black "Greek" organizations currently existing under...

Mega Media: How Market Forces Are Transforming News.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Mega Media: How Market Forces are Tranforming News by Nancy Hicks Maynard Maynard Partners Incorporated, August 2000, $16.95, ISBN 0-970-12920-3 For an industry that prides itself on being first with the latest in news trends, there's a...

The Denny's Story: How a Company in Crisis Resurrected Its Good Name.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Denny's Story: How a Company in Crisis Resurrected Its Good Name by Jim Adamson, Rosemary Bray McNatt Robert J. McNatt, Robert F. McNatt Wiley & Sons. January 2000, $24.95, ISBN 0-471-369574 What do you do when the name of your...

The Origins of a Species.(African literature)
January 1, 2001... In the beginning of Africa's cultures was the word--the spoken word--and its traditions resonate even in today's written literature Because of the association of literature with writing, the heritage of the oral tradition, whose expressive...

Arrows of Rain.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Arrows of Rain By Okey Ndibe Heinemann Educational Publishers, October 2000, $15.95, ISBN 0-435-90657-7 "The mouth owes stories the debt of speech.... A voiceless man is as good as dead." This is the profound leitmotif in a commanding...

Black Paris: The African Writer's Landscape.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Black Paris: The African Writer's Landscape by Benetta Jules-Rosette University of Illinois Press, September 2000, $17.95, ISBN 0-25-06935-8 Jules-Rosette paints an exotic, gritty tableau spanning decades and continents. Here African...

Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton by Walter Payton with Don Yaeger Crown, September 2000, $24.95, ISBN 0-679-46331-3 Walter Payton was an athlete who transcended the venue of sports. Like the losses of Arthur Ashe and...

The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams by Derek Jeter with Jack Curry Crown Publishing, September 2000, $21.95, ISBN 0-609-60786-3 In collaboration with New York Times sports reporter, Jack Curry, Jeter has written a...

SCOREBOARD.(books on Negro Baseball Leagues)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Negro Baseball Leagues The Negro Baseball Leagues, with its quantity of magnificent athletes, colorful characters, and its own brand of history, produced legends that are still being honored nearly forty years after its official demise....

Here Comes the Xpress.(British black publisher)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A British Black publisher takes London's new urban voices of commercial fiction on a Transatlantic journey to seek American gold The foremost black publisher in Europe, Xpress, founded eight years ago, is the brainchild of two London-based...

They Can't Hide Us Anymore.(Review)
January 1, 2001... They Can't Hide Us Anymore by Richie Havens with Steve Davidowitz HarperEntertainment, May 2000, $14.00, ISBN 0-380-80378-X The gulf between militant nationalism and militant integrationism or multiculturalism often seems much wider than it...

Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris by Craig Lloyd University of Georgia Press, August 2000, $26.95 ISBN 0-8203-2192-3 Without a sufficient understanding of the black expatriate movement, it is virtually impossible to have a...

Jazz: A History of America's Music.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Jazz: A History of America's Music by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Knopf, November 2000, $65.00, ISBN 0-679-44551-X Whenever anyone attempts to write a history of something as enormous and complex as jazz music, that brave soul can count...

Follow That Beat.(books on African American music)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Follow That Beat... Swing by your bookstore and pick up one of these fabulous hooks Only The Strong Survive by Jerry Butler, with Earl Smith Indiana University Press, October 2000, $24,95, ISBN 0-253-33796-8 Butler, "The Iceman",...

I want my MP3.(spoken word files, content protection)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Thought your MP3 Player was only for beats downloaded from Napster or MP3.com? Think again. Why stop with music when you can download spoken words and audio excerpts? Visit sites like www.rioport.com and MP3Lit.com to hear recordings of...

Web Wonders.(Darien Dash, DME Interactive Holdings Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Attention authors, booksellers, anyone in need of a dynamic website! Darien Dash is his name. And in the internet business, he's got game. Dash, 29, is the founder and CEO of DME Interactive Holdings, Inc. (www.dmeinteractive.com), established...

Online Booksellers.(newsletters and updates on African American literature)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... We all know it's important to support black-owned sites, often the primary online sales force for self-published authors; but it's equally important to make sure we know what's going on with black books sold on mainstream commerce sites. Sign...

Just for Kids!(Blackbooksgalore.com for children's books)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... BLACKBOOKSGALORE.COM Finding literature sites for black children can be trying, but here's one rose in the desert that all parents building a library for their children should visit. Blackbooksgalore.com is a site created by three black...

News on literary events around the country.(web sites on African American literature)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Cultured Writer (www.blackwriters.org/cw) is the African American Online Writer's Guild Newsletter (AAOWG). This is an excellent website that not only offers the lowdown on events, but informative articles and calls for submission. Keep it...

Should YOU Click On This? Literature site--www.fyah.com.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Michele's thoughts... YES, but brace yourself. You have work to do. This online black literature mag, fashioned after Fire!, the lit-mag of the Harlem Renaissance, seeks to create a forum for black wordsmiths, with black arts news,...