The First 60 Years: The History of Afro-American Musical Theater And Entertainment 1865-1930. Title: “The First 60 Years: The History of Afro-American Musical Theater And Entertainment 1865-1930” Author: Ronald Smokey Stevens Ronald Smokey Stevens has grown to become an author-filmmaker-and producer. He began his career professionally as an actor singer-dancer with The DC Black Repertory […]
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda
“Hotel Rwanda was promoted as a story about ‘the quiet heroism of one man, Paul Rusesabagina, during the Rwandan Genocide.’ I knew Paul Rusesabagina. All the people who survived inside the hotel … knew Paul Rusesabagina. No one among us has ever thought of him as altruistic, let alone heroic. On the contrary, of all […]
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The Author’s Corner
Title: Why Do Christian Families Suffer? The Devastation of Suffering of a Christian Family! Author: Dr. Linda Lee Jones Release Date: January, 2014 Dr. Linda Lee Jones holds a doctorate in clinical counseling from Cornerstone University, St. Charles, Ill. She’s a professional member of the National Christian Counselors Association in Sarasota, Fla. and the Sarasota […]
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Book News: Polish Poet With Mission
Polish poet and playw right Tadeusz Różewicz, who was a member of the resistance during Germany’s occupation of Poland in World War II, has died, according to reports in the Polish press. He was 92. Writing in The Guardian, the British-Hungarian poet George Szirtes called him “one of the great European ‘witness’ poets whose own lives were […]
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Pageants, Parlors & Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the 20th Century South
“ tells us how Jim Crow and civil rights were expressed in southern women’s bodies. Using female beauty as a lens, the book brings into focus an untold social and cultural history of southern women and of the South generally… I argue that female beauty in the American South was, more so than in the […]
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Book Review: The Myth of Race, The Reality of Racism
The Genome Project has scientifically proven that there’s only one race, the human race. But despite definitive proof that race is purely a fabrication of man’s imagination, racism continues to persist. That confounding conundrum is the subject of “The Myth of Race, The Reality of Racism,” a collection of enlightening essays by Mahmoud El-Kati. El-Kati, […]
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Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph
“It was Thursday, June 16, 1966… Less than a year before, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act… Stokely Carmichael was now in Mississippi to ensure that the federal laws… would apply to black sharecroppers living in plantation communities… released from his latest stay in jail… Stokely’s voice broke through the humid Mississippi […]
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Review: Why Every Black Woman Should Marry a Jewish Man
“How many times have we heard successful African-American women complain they can’t find a good man? Everyone has an opinion on the black man shortage, but none of the so-called relationship experts offer real solutions… Is it possible that we have been missing an important match? Yes! Jewish men make wonderful husbands… as well as […]
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Speed Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster– and Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down
“This is a book about a new kind of addiction that I believe has taken hold in our culture… I call it the addiction to speed… I’m talking about a culture-wide phenomenon that is snatching people up and carrying them along, convincing them that doing ‘more, better, and faster’ is the path to happiness. Some […]
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The Global Obama Crossroads of Leadership in the 21st Century
What a paradox. The first Black president, loved by people around the world, yet struggling for approval for his policies at home—whether it be the healthcare initiative, the stimulus to bail out the economy, or his ‘leading from behind’ on foreign policies. Clearly, part of Obama’s worldwide appeal is due to his international biography… Barack […]
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The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction)
The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) 1. (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Edited by Yaba Blay, Ph.D. with photography by Noelle Theard 2. Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder 3. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants […]
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Baltimore Preacher Writes Path to Healing
Trouble is a phenomenon that finds everyone, but it has a beginning and an ending. That’s the message the Rev. Dr. Dana Neal posits in her new book, “Released in the Spirit,” hot off the presses for those who are pressed. “I just want people to know that there is deliverance, deliverance from pain, deliverance […]
