Black Issues Book Review articles from May 2001

Black Issues Book Review archives from May 2001

A Reading Family.
May 1, 2001... May and June are months for moms, dads and grads. So, we've made this our annual family issue, with something for every member of the family and books covering every familial relationship. We've begun with fathers and sons. For our cover...

Grace and Nerve.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Only one generation removed from slavery--forty years after his father, a teenaged runaway in 11858, emancipated himself--the first Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was blessed not only with enormous artistic, intellectual and athletic gifts, but also...

letters to the editor.
May 1, 2001... DEAR EDITOR, I am reading the March/April 2001 issue of BIBR. I always enjoy the issues that feature poetry. There is so much in-depth writing, so much information: forthcoming books deals, the article on bestseller lists, Affrilachian...

CORRECTIONS.(Black Issues Book Review,March-April 2001, and January-February 2001)(Correction Notice)
May 1, 2001... Jamal Sharif is the correct spelling of the writer's name of the writer quoted in the March-April 2001 Book Bytes article "Literary Motherland". The feature article "Soul in Them There Hills" in our March-April 2001 issue should have been...

between the lines.(books in other media)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... news and information on books in film, television, CD-ROM, museums and more Best-selling author E. Lynn Harris opened his heart to his alma mater, the University of Arkansas. Harris has made a $25,000 gift to the university to establish a...

New York Publishing's Black Pack.(African American network)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Young editors and agents gather and network to be more effective operators in an industry unaccustomed to diversity It's an early December evening in New York and the place was a smoky little joint in the East Village, complete with...

on the shelf.
May 1, 2001... I am delighted to join the wonderful staff here at Black Issues Book Review. The warm welcome I've received let's me know I've joined a family. As an avid reader of BIBR since its premier issue, I jumped at the chance to work with such an...

recommends.(African American books)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2001... There has been a wealth of a re-releases over the past year that are worth a second look--don't pass up on these! Clotel, or The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown Modern Library Classics, December 2000, $10.95 ISBN 0-679-78323-7...

Cane River.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Cane River by Lalita Tademy Warner Books, January 2001, $24.95, ISBN 0-446-52732-7 In her debut novel, Cane River, Lalita Tademy admits that she grew up feeling somewhat judgemental of her great-grandmother Emily, one of four central...

The Living Blood.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Living Blood by Tananarive Due Pocket Books Hardcover April 2001, $24.95, ISBN 0-671-04083-9 Like Pauline Hopkins' turn of the century novella, Of One Blood, Due's plot features an underground colony of spiritually and technologically...

Got To Be Real.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Got To Be Real by E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Marcus Major and Colin Channer New American Library, December 2000, $14.00, ISBN 0-451-20223-6 Fiction's most talented come together in this unique compilation of four original love...

The Shirt Off His Back.(Review)
May 1, 2001... The Shirt Off His Back by Parry Brown Strivers Row Paperback, January 2001, $13.95, ISBN 0-375-75659-0 Single father, Terry Winston is thriving in both his personal and professional life. His loving girlfriend faithfully supports him in all...

Mr. Commitment.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Mr. Commitment by Mike Gayle Doubleday, January 2001, $22.95, ISBN 0-385-50100-5 Duffy believes that "till death do us part" should be removed from wedding ceremonies and replaced with "renewable on a four-year basis." The hilarity begins...

4 Guys and Trouble.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... 4 Guys and Trouble by Marcus Major Dutton Publishers, May 2001, $23.95 ISBN 0-525-94568-7 Friendship can be very complex. We count on our friends to pick us up when we are down, and to bring us back down when we get too high for our own...

Ain't No River.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Ain't No River by Sharon Ewell Foser Multnomah Publishers, Inc., January 2001 $11.99, ISBN 1-57673-628-8 With an inspirational tone and wonderfully-crafted plot, Ain't No River, by Sharon Ewell Foster, spins a splendidly woven tale that...

Resurrecting Mingus.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Resurrecting Mingus by Jenoyne Adams Free Press, February 2001, $20.00 ISBN 0-684-87352-4 Mingus Browning's story begins with a struggle about her physical body, and it's indicative to where we're headed for the rest of the novel. Her life...

The Wind Done Gone.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randal Houghton Mifflin, June 2001, $23.00, ISBN 0-618-10450-X The astounding literary invention The Wind Done Gone clearly has the makings of controversy. It revisits Margaret Mitchell's American classic Gone...

It's A Thin Line.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... It's A Thin Line by Kimberla Lawson Roby Dafina Books, May 2001, $23.00 ISBN 1-576-66629-4 It's a Thin Line draws readers into Roby's sophomore effort succeeding Casting the First Stone. The novel brings siblings Sydney, Gina and Rick...

House of Light.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... House of Light by Joyce Carol Thomas Hyperion, March 2001, $22.95, ISBN 0-7868-6606-3 In Joyce Carol Thomas' novel, House of Light, Dr. Abyssinia Jackson is making a house call. The readers are her patients. The message her patients draw...

Vanishing Rooms.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Vanishing Rooms by Melvin Dixon Cleis Press, May 2001, $14.95 ISBN 1-573-44123-6 The third novel of a prolific young black literary fiction author, poet and scholar sadly lost to AIDS in 1992, Vanishing Rooms has been rescued from...

Forever.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Forever Timmothy B. McCann Dafina Books, April 2001, $22.00, ISBN 1-575-66757-6 Through crises and victories, this bewitching novel explores whether love and marriage can last forever. Picking up from Until (Mc Cann's first novel)...

The Turning Point.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Turning Point by Francis Ray St. Martin's Press, April 2001, $6.99, ISBN 0-312-97862-6 Ray, known for her handsome, strong male characters and her get-tough-quickly heroines, showcases her talents for the mainstream fiction market with...

It's Like That.(Review)
May 1, 2001... From old-school rap to new age message, Rev. Run completes the circle This issue recognizes the June Sunday that traditionally honors Pops. Where would many of us be without him? No doubt, some heads would be singing songs in a different...

The Oxford Companion to Jazz.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Oxford Companion to Jazz edited by Bill Kirchner Oxford University Press, November 2000, $49.95, ISBN 0-195-12510-X What makes this massive volume such an important book for jazz lovers and students, is the sheer variety of viewpoints...

The Black Biographer's Burden.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Paul Robeson Jr. interprets the controversial legacy of the towering 20th-century artist and intellectual who was also a black man--and his father, too The biographer's relationship to his subject is always tricky. For black writers...

The Undiscovered Paul Robeson--An Artist's Journey 1898-1939.(Review)
May 1, 2001... The Undiscovered Paul Robeson--An Artist's Journey 1898-1939 By Paul Robeson Jr. John Wiley & Sons, April 2001, $30.00, ISBN 0-471-24265-9 In this carefully crafted portrait of the artist as a work-in-progress, we are given a detailed...

Sterling's Magic.(Sterling Brown)
May 1, 2001... The scholar and poet Sterling Brown stamped American poetry with the music of the black vernaculart On a cold, gray fall day in Washington, D.C., my friend and I saw a tall, aged and slightly stooped man shivering at a bus stop. It was too...

Tiepolo's Hound.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Tiepolo's Hound Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus & Giroux, April 2000, $30.00, ISBN 0-374-10587-1 New out in paperback "Poetry", according to Derek Walcott's 1992 lecture to the Nobel Academy after having won its prestigious prize, "conjugates...

The Water Between Us.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Water Between Us by Shara McCallum University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999, $12.95, ISBN 0-822-95710-8 It's happening on the real when you hit the last page in a collection of poetry and you're ready to stomp, scream and holler like a...

Jungle nights & Soda Fountain Rags.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Jungle Nights of Soda Fountain Rags by Brian Gilmore Karibu Books, 1999, $12.00 ISBN 0-967-50430-9 Gilmore's book length poem is an ode to Duke Ellington and his musical legacy that takes the reader through a series of suites in...

Pot Liquor for Writer's Block--Nommogeneity.(Review)
May 1, 2001... Pot Liquor for Writer's Block--Nommogeneity by Nommogeneity Poets Ubwenge Press, ISBN 0-9703567-0-6 This offering could be one of the prototypes of how poetry will be delivered in the future. The poetry quintet Nommogeneity and its...

Midland.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Midland by Kwame Dawes Ohio University Press, February 2001, $24.95, ISBN 0-8214-1355-4 Kwame Dawes' Midland is more than a book of poetry. His words are compiled in a way that transcends his traveled experiences in the world, and conveys...

To Repel Ghosts.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... To Repel Ghosts by Kevin Young Zoland Books, June 2001, $26,00 ISBN 1-58195-0330 In bold strokes of audio-dacity Kevin Young has crafted his second book of poetry, To Repel Ghosts. An extended riff on the life and work of artist...

Being a Strong Woman CAN GET U KILLED!!(Review)
May 1, 2001... Being a Strong Woman CAN GET U KILLED!! by Laini Mataka Black Classic Press, January 2001, $11.95, ISBN 1-574-78002-6 In her third collection of poetry, D.C. poet, Laini Mataka, courageously and without guilt, defies the belief that poetry...

Priced to Sell at $6.99.(Afrcan American authors highlighted)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Iyanla Vanzant, Omar Tyree, Michael Baisden, Nelson George, Jackson and Benilde Little are six black authors now available in special mass-market promotion Chances are if you are at a newsstand, grocer, drugstore, discount chain or...

For Rhyms, Reason and Respect Moore Black Press.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing. --Countee Cullen Poet and spoken word artist Jessica Care Moore won over tough audiences in 1996 on "It's Showtime at the Apollo," surpassing all comers to...

Curator's Choice.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Review)
May 1, 2001... Distinguished art historian David C. Driskell shows his vast knowledge through the Cosby Collection. Black people have been collecting and displaying art for as long as artists have been making it, This is not to say that we have always...

The Book is the Ticket.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Are you still looking for a way to spend the summer? Have we got a vacation package for you! You'll laugh and mambo with the locals in Havana, Cuba. Then, cruise down Flatbush Avenue on the back of a Harley Davidson holding tightly to one of...

Popular.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Popular by Thierry Le Goues PowerHouse Books, November 2000, $75.00 ISBN 1-576877-075-8 Opening this photographic essay on Afro-Cubans, I am reminded of a line from poet Langston Hughes: "I'm telling you birthing is hard, and Dieing is...

Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride: African American Murals.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride' African American Murals James Prigoff, Robin Dunitz, Floyd Coleman, Michael Harris, Edmund Barry Gaithers Pomegranate Communications Inc., October 2000, $60.00, ISBN 07649-1339-5 Grab your keys, a map of...

Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Committed to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers by Barbara Head Millstein (ed.) Essays by Deba P. Patnaik and Clyde Taylor Merrell Publishers in association with the Brooklyn Museum of Art February 2001, $39.95 ISBN 1-858-94123-7 ...

Yes Rasta.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Yes Rasta. Photographs by Patrick Cariou, text by Perry Henzell. PowerHouse Books, November 2000, $60.00, ISBN 1-57687-073-1 Cariou's pictures of Rastafari living in the Jamaican hills does little to demythologize the devotees of this...

BIBR Gallery presents: Tony Gleaton.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... For the past 20 years, Tony Gleaton has been on a photographic pilgrimage of the African Diaspora in the Americas. Gleaton is committed to exploring every nuance of African influence in the Americas. First, he documented the little known black...

A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans by Cuesta Benberry with an introducing by Raymond G. Dobard University of Arkansas Press, October 2000, $34.95 ISBN 1-55728-620-5 Quilts, Dobard explains in the introduction, may have been an...

Brooklyn Kings: New York City's Black Bikers.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Brooklyn Kings: New York City's Black Bikers Photographs by Martin Dixon; Text by Dixon Tate, Martin Tate and Greg Tate PowerHouse Books, November 2000, $00,00, ISBN 1-576-87044-8 Martin Dixon's camera takes us inside this clandestine world...

God's Reading Rainbow.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Christian publishing which has expanded to reach underserved African American readers of inspirational and religious instruction books, is now enthusiastically promoting a new genre of fiction The christian publishing industry in the U.S....

Things not seen.(editorial)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
May 1, 2001... African American writers highlight spiritual and visionary paths Even with an absolute denial of the existence of anything or anyone beyond ourselves, we all put our faith in something to make it through this world: our independent spirit,...

Altar of My Soul The Living Traditions of Santeria.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Altar of My Soul The Living Traditions of Santeria by Marta Moreno Vega One World/Ballentine Books, September 2000, $29.95, ISBN 0-345-42137-X We join the author on her spiritual search through Santeria--from novice to priestess. She...

Listening for God, A Minister's Journey through Silence and Doubt.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Listening for God, A Minister's Journey through Silence and Doubt by Renita J. Weems Simon & Schuster First Touchstone Edition February 1999 $11.00, ISBN 0-684-83323-9 Renita J. Weems' reflective book shares one woman's experience of...

Soul Food.(various titles critiqued)(Bibliography)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... An inspiring new Christian fiction line, plus guides for meditation and study. Fiction Church Folk by Michele Andrea Bowen Walk Worthy Press, June 2001, $21.95, ISBN 0-446-52799-8 It is the early 1960s. When Theophilus Henry, a...

Weddings By the Book.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Black couples can choose from at least a half-dozen guides to plan their nuptials Traversing the labyrinth between "Will you Marry me" and "I do" is a rite of passage every betrothed couple encounters on the way to "happily ever after."...

Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story by Michael Datcher Riverhead Books, $23.95, March 2001, ISBN 1-573-22171-6 "Epic" is an accurate description of Michael Datcher's accomplished memoir, Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story....

Notes from the Hyena's Belly.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Notes from the Hyena's Belly by Nega Mezlekia St. Martin's Press, May 2001, $24.00, ISBN 0-312-26988-9 For many in the West, Ethiopia is associated with horrifying images of famine, disease and death. That's not without good reason. After...

Clarence Major and His Art: Portrait of an African American Postmodernist.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Clarence Major and His Art: Portrait of an African American Postmodernist edited by Bernard W. Bell University of North Carolina Press January 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-807-84899-9 Clarence Major began writing professionally and living as a...

Necessary Distance: Essays & Criticism.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Necessary Distance: Essays & Criticism by Clarence Major Coffee House Press, April 2001, $15.95 ISBN 1-566-89109-4 Clarence Major began writing professionally and living as a young bohemian during the Civil Rights Movement. At the time of...

The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Black Experience in the 20th Century: An Autobiography and Meditation by Peter Abrahams Indiana University Press, March 2001, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33833-6 Though its title initially suggests an impossibly broad subject, The Black...

Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier by Art T. Burton Eakin Press, 1999, $24.95, ISBN 1-57168-295-3 Art T. Burton tracks the movement of adventurous African American men across the...

The Butterfly's Way: From the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Butterfly's Way: From the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States edited by Edwidge Danticat Soho Press, February 2001, $15.00, ISBN 1-56947-218-1 The Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 led to the birth of the first independent nation in...

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 edited by Emily Bernard Alfred A. Knopf, February 2001, $35.00, ISBN 0-679-42631-0 Today, Langston Hughes' life and work are celebrated, while the...

Sidewalk.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier Farrar, Straus & Giroux, January 200l $24.95, ISBN 0-374-52725-3 With photographs by Ovie Carter accompanying the essays, Sidewalk is a literal portrait of people in unconventional urban America who have...

Rejuvenate! It's Never Too Late.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Rejuvenate! It's Never Too Late by Eartha Kitt and Tonya Bolden Scribner, May 2001, $24.00, ISBN 0-743-20224-4 Who would not know that voice... the sultry, spicy catwoman, the dancer, the singer, the international luminary, Eartha Kitt....

The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro by the National Council of Negro Women Beacon Press, October 2000, $18.00, ISBN 0-807-00964-4 Comprehending the food traditions of a people goes a long way toward understanding their journey....

Nonfiction Titles.(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2001... Afrocentric Thought and Praxis: An Intellectual History by Cecil C. Gray African World Press Inc., February 2001 $79.95, ISBN 0-865-43825-0 Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II by Maggi M....

Black Heritage Series.(Review)(Brief Review)
May 1, 2001... Iowa's Black Legacy by Charline J. Barnes Ed.D and Floyd Bumpers Arcadia, August 2000, $18.99 ISBN 0-738-50351-7 This is documentation of the rich cultural history of African Americans throughout the state. Through vivid photographs of the...

Mental Health Breakthrough.(Brief Article)(Review)
May 1, 2001... Olympian wages a fight with depression Derrick Adkins stood on an Olympic podium five years ago in Atlanta with a gleaming gold medal around his neck. Instead of being the happiest man in the world he was probably the saddest. Adkins...

Go to Your Destiny.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Go to Your Destiny by Alvin and Calvin Harrison Hyperion, December 2000, $22.95 ISBN 0-786-86788-4 The dramatic opening photograph says, "Here are two beautiful men!." Then the story says track star twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison...

Scoreboard.(Brief Article)(Review)(Brief Review)
May 1, 2001... Books by our sports heroes create healthy competition on the bookshelves. America Above the Rim: Basketball Jones edited by Todd Boyd and Kenneth L. Shropshire New York University Press, November 2000, $18.95, ISBN 0-814-71316-5 A...

Stocking Bargain Bin.(remaindered titles)
May 1, 2001... How Black Booksellers Scavenge for Markdowns As many a book collector knows, few things can match capping off an afternoon of browsing at the mall finding an armload of volumes--glossy gift editions, last year's bestsellers or...

Found in Cyberspace.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Three authors get a 24-7 cyber hookup with readers through their own web sites Creating a site that readers will want to bookmark is definitely hard work. But in an age in which authors recognize that promoting a book and keeping readers...

Toys for the Techie: Got eBooks?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... So you've bought your Motorola Two-Way Pager, your wireless Palm Vllx, your Rio MP3 Player, and your Samsung or Motorola flip cellie -- but what about an eBook reader? Okay, not necessarily a must-have, but I'm sure you're noticing that,...

Click On This ... or Not?(North Carolina Haiku Society Web site)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... North Carolina Haiku Society Site nc-haiku.erg The North Carolina Haiku Society was founded in 1979, to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English. Members support this goal by writing haiku, hosting an annual Haiku Holiday...

Just for Kids.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Kids can express themselves online? You won't find books to buy for your children on crayola.com; you'll find a place to publish your child's work. Children can write and illustrate stories, poetry, and book reviews, and see them published...

OnLine Booksellers.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... AALBC.com: Buy a book, chat, solve a puzzle, win a contest... If you haven't already noticed, AALBC.com (African American Literary Book Club) is looking pretty amazing! First, there's a new logo that graced the site at the new year. Next,...

NET NEWS.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Call For Submissions De Griot Space, degriotspace.com, is an online community of Afridiasporic writers. They will be recruiting new members for their online workshops during the months of June/July and September/October 2001, to share...

Web Wonders.(Marabella Books)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... It's a she thang! Tracey Scott is the founder and president of Marabella Books, a Black woman-owned, multimedia publisher with the brand SmartSisters Network, www.smartsisters.com, as its online channel. "When we started Marabella Books in...

Let's Hear It for the Boys.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... When it comes to black literature, these brothers in Brooklyn, Detroit and Atlanta are all booked up On the second Saturday of each month, Anthony Kirby convenes in Brooklyn homes or local restaurants with attorney Le'Roi Gill, architect...

How to Land an Agent.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... You've self-published your book, sold thousands of copies and now you're ready to take your project to a mainstream publisher. What do you do now? How do you get in front of an agent? Which agent should you go to? More importantly, how can you...

Dear Dr. Rosie.(self-publishing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... "As a self-published author, I attend as many author signings as I can. I keep hearing authors talk about the importance of marketing your book. My challenge is that all the money I had went into producing my book. There is very little left...

CLIMBING THE CRYSTAL STAIR.(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... Portraits of black middle-class life from self-published novelists Chocolate Burnout: The Road to Freedom, Part II by Vicki L. Hubbard Writer's Club Press, April 2.000, $11.95 ISBN 0-595-14874-3 Chantel tries desperately to keep her...

Guerrilla Marketing Tactics.(gay and lesbian black authors)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Gay and Lesbian titles can be more tough to sell to black book retailers than to customers In 1997, I published does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories. I'm not ashamed to say that I hustled my butt off. I...

Alternative Choices.(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
May 1, 2001... Recommended titles from black-owned gay/lesbian presses Breathe Again by Ricc Rollins, Ishai Books, 1999, $16.00, ISBN 1-892096-31-5 Bridge Across the Ocean by Randy Boyd, West Beach Books, 2000, $12.95, ISBN 0-9665333-5-6 The...

Daddy's Here.(Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Reclaiming our black fathers As author Gloria Wade-Gayles so eloquently highlights in, Father Songs: Testimonies by African-American Sons and Daughters (Beacon Press, 1998), "the realities of black fatherhood in (the Unites States) have...

Tough Issues, Tender Minds.(Jacqueline Woodson)(Critical Essay)
May 1, 2001... Award-winning author for young readers, Jacqueline Woodson goes from chapter to verse as she expands from young-adult fiction to picture books It is not often that some of the most vibrant, politically relevant and original writing to be...

Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History.(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson, illustrated by Melanie Reim The Millbrook Press, March 2000, $23.90, ISBN 0-761-31264-1 Jim Haskins has done it again with this graceful,...