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REALITYCHECK:
Paying The Reparations Debt
An Essential, Effective & Easily Earned Dividend

Considering Education Reparations --
There is no longer a real question or reasonable debate against the need for paying a reparations debt to Black American citizens. It is clearly in our national economic, social, and moral interests. Over the last 150 years, there have been many formal and informal efforts and promises to pay America’s actual victims, immediate relatives, or indigenous citizen-descendents of the slaves that produced the economic success and future of America. Over 100 years before this continent became the United States of America, African slaves were the backbone, muscle and flesh used to jump-start the economies of the original 13 colonies from Savannah-Georgia to New Hampshire. This head start sparked the unprecedented economic and political growth of a new nation -- within a comparatively short and tumultuous 150-plus years -- into a global superpower . . . MORE >

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Words, Truth & Integrity:
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RealityCheck: The Iraq In the 'Hood Connection
In what is surely the latest example of chickens coming home to roost, the US military is experiencing a major decline in the recruitment of young Black men . . . MORE >

Pryor Convictions and Other Life Sentences
Richard Pryor does something no other comic genius has done before -- he takes listeners deep into his life, baring himself before audiences as he exposes his . . . MORE >

BottomLines: After 25 Years, Is BET Relevant ?
A $3 billion media enterprise still profits from stereotyping Black culture, proving 'Brain Empty Television' is not the exclusive venue of mainstream White media . . . MORE >

The New Basic Black
Just in time for the holiday season and beyond, a newly revised modern manual of African American manners and etiquette that has become an genuine classic . . . MORE >

Queens
From the afro to the ponytail to dreadlocks to braids to relaxed hair to fantasy hair; from "good hair" to bad hair days, in this stunningly designed book . . . MORE >

Hung
"Hung" is a double-entendre, referring not only to penis size but to the fact that Black men were once literally hung from trees, often for their perceived sexual prowess . . . MORE >

Target Zero - A Life in Writing
Kathleen Cleaver chronicles the words and life of former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver -- a complex man who inspired profound adulation . . . MORE >

Mirror to America
Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles a remarkable life and this nation's racial transformation in the 20th century, and is a powerful reminder of . . . MORE >

The Games Black Girls Play
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to . . . MORE >

Cinnamon Kiss
Bestselling author Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever -- a terrifying murder during 1967’s Summer of Love . . . MORE >

I'm Every Woman
Black women have been balancing the competing demands of work and home since before women even won the right to vote. But Black voices and experiences  . . . MORE >

Voodoo Season
Jewell Parker Rhodes's fourth novel, revisits the mystical landscape of Louisiana, but now, for the first time, the celebrated author of historical fiction presents . . . MORE >

The Color of Law
Easily compared to actual news stories, this novel probes the murder of a Texas presidential candidate's son by a Black prostitute after a night of liquor and sex . . . MORE >

Joplin's Ghost
Tananarive Due’s latest novel is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead famous music legend . . . MORE >

Nowhere Is a Place
Bernice L. McFadden crafts a touching novel about a young woman uncovering her surprising family history. Like many family histories, it reluctantly reveals secrets . . . MORE >

Almost Doesn't Count
Electa Rome Parks, the author of Loose Ends, returns with a novel about a woman who is almost convinced that love doesn't matter -- her mother made sure of that . . . MORE >

How to Rent a Negro - The Interview
BOOKSandWORDS interviews conceptual artist and author damali ayo on her insightful and hysterically funny first handbook about getting paid for living Black . . . MORE >

Hokum
Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by . . . MORE >

From Black Power to Hip Hop
Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a . . . MORE >

A Farewell to Justice
This is not just another book about the assassination of President Kennedy. Line for line and between the lines this is a detailed account of an American coup . . . MORE >

REALITYCHECK

Too Much Less For 'Millions More'

Though substantially attended, a decade later, the Millions More Movement event was effectively a bust. Functionally
and numerically, this 10th anniversary gathering was actually thousands less. But, this is NOT about numbers . . . MORE >

BOOKSandWORDS EXCLUSIVE: Federal judge ends all arguments in the Sophia Stewart vs Warner Brothers multibillion-dollar Matrix movie copyright lawsuit, and may soon rule on this quiet 6-year case  . . . MORE >

Alice Walker - A Life
Author Evelyn C. White charts Walker's childhood, marked by an incident at eight that left her blinded in her right eye and with disfiguring scar tissue and that . . . MORE >

Fade - Voices from the Frontlines of Biracial America
Broadcast journalist Elliott Lewis combines his expertise as a news reporter with his Black-White family history and racial identity as a biracial person to look at the . . . MORE >

The Thunder of Angels
Heroism by average people in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented in poignant and thorough detail. Untold stories of those, both Black and White . . . MORE >

When Love Calls, You Better Answer
Novelist, sociologist and entrepreneur Bertice Berry returns with a a rich tapestry of emotions about looking for love in all the wrong places with all the wrong people . . . MORE >

Slave Nation - The Untold American History
This highly thorough history details how the loss of major profits from Black slave labor was the actual catalyst for America’s revolt for independence from Britain . . . MORE >

Driven from Within
Michael Jordan’s lavishly illustrated autobiography reveals the man, father, husband, son, athlete, and icon of strength and excellence that defines a generation . . . MORE >

Freshwater Road
TV, film and stage actor Denise Nicholas authors a very compelling novel about a woman's journey into adulthood during the civil rights movement . . . MORE >

That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It
Pakistani-British filmmaker Kaleem Aftab ably combines both an in-depth authorized biography and substantive reporting to reveal the innovative Spike Lee . . . MORE >

MediSin
One of the rare books that goes far into and behind the details of how the medical and commercial food industries are knowingly causing our premature death . . . MORE >

The Heart of Whiteness
This groundbreaking and detailed book is a ringing bell for Blacks, Whites, and anyone avoiding the reality of today's embedded racism -- and it pulls no punches . . . MORE >

Faithful Vision
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half of the twentieth century . . . MORE >

Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraordinary measures, risking life and limb to be together . . . MORE >

Wilt, 1962
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete . . . MORE >

A Change Is Gonna Come
A Change Is Gonna Come is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential Black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom . . . MORE >

Neo Soul - Taking Food to Whole 'nutha Level
From the grandson of Harlem's queen of soul food, Sylvia Woods, comes a new take on soul food cooking that tastes as good as the food you grew up with . . . MORE >

PAGETURNERS . . .

Target Zero - A Life in Writing

By Eldridge Cleaver - Edited & Introduced by Kathleen Cleaver
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Afterword by Cecil Brown
Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero brings Cleaver’s controversial story into focus through his own words. This books charts Cleaver's life through his writings: his quiet childhood, his youth spent in prison, his startling emergence as a Black Panther leader who became a "fugitive from justice" by the end of 1968, his seven-year exile, and his religious and political conversion following his return to the U.S. Target Zero, which brings together previously unpublished essays, short stories, letters, interviews, and poems, is the most significant collection of Eldridge Cleaver’s writing since his bestselling book Soul on Ice (1968).

Eldridge Cleaver is the celebrated author of Soul on Ice and was the information minister of the Black Panther Party. Kathleen Cleaver is a senior lecturer at Yale University and at Emory Law School. She joined Eldridge Cleaver in the Black Panther Party in 1967, when they married. She is an attorney and author, and is currently at work on her memoir, Memories of Love and War.

Kathleen Cleaver has spent most of her life participating in the human rights struggle. From Dallas Texas, Kathleen Neal Cleaver father was a sociology professor at Wiley College and her mother held a degree in mathematics. With her fathers work the family spent much her early years abroad in Liberia, the Philippines, and Sierra Leone. Cleaver completed high school at the Georgia School in Philadelphia in 1963.

As a college sophomore, Cleaver dropped out of Barnard College in 1966 to work full-time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee where she served in the Campus Program. From 1967 to 1971, Cleaver was the communications secretary of the Black Panther Party, the first woman member of their Central Committee. She married Eldridge Cleaver in 1967. After sharing years of exile with her former husband, she returned to the United States in late 1975. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in history from Yale College in 1984, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

After receiving a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1989, Cleaver became an associate at the New York law firm of Cravath, Swain and Moore. Afterwards, she served as a clerk for the late Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. While an assistant professor of law at Emory University, she served on the Georgia's Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts and became a board member of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights. She has devoted many years to the defense of Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a former Black Panther Party leader who won his habeas corps petition in 1997 after spending 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Kathleen Cleaver has authored, edited, contributed to and introduced numerous other publications including: Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party, Critical Race Feminism, Black Panthers 1968, and Memories of Love and War.
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The Games Black Girls Play
Learning the Ropes from Double Dutch to Hip-Hop
By Kyra D. Gaunt
When we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games Black girls play -- handclapping songs, cheers, and double-dutch jump rope—both reflect and inspire the principles of Black popular music-making.

The Games Black Girls Play illustrates how Black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learn—how, in effect, these games contain the DNA of Black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of game-playing, Kyra D. Gaunt argues that Black girls' games are connected to long traditions of African and African American music-making, and that they teach vital musical and social lessons that are carried into adulthood. In this celebration of playground poetry and childhood choreography, she uncovers the surprisingly rich contributions of girls' play to Black popular culture.

Vocalist Kyra D. Gaunt obtained her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. She specializes in the socialization of race, gender and embodiment in Black popular culture and has served on the faculty at the University of Virginia since 1996.

A recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation and NEH, her publications appear in Generations of Youth (1998), Language, Rhythm and Sound (1997), Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media (1995), and Musical Quarterly (forthcoming). Gaunt is also a consultant for several PBS children's programs.
E-Mail Kyra: kyra.gaunt@nyu.edu >


Faithful Vision
Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in
Twentieth-Century African American Fiction
By James W. Coleman
In Faithful Vision, James W. Coleman places under his critical lens a wide array of African American novels written during the last half of the twentieth century. In doing so, he demonstrates that religious vision not only informs Black literature but also serves as a foundation for Black culture generally.

The Judeo-Christian tradition, according to Coleman, is the primary component of the African American spiritual perspective, though its syncretism with voodoo/hoodoo -- a religion transported from West Africa through the West Indies and New Orleans to the rest of Black America -- also figures largely. Reviewing novels written mainly since 1950 by writers including James Baldwin, Randall Kenan, Toni Morrison, John Edgar Wideman, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Erna Brodber, and Ishmael Reed, among others, Coleman explores how Black authors have addressed the relevance of faith, especially as it relates to an oppressive Christian tradition. He shows that their novels -- no matter how critical of the sacred or supernatural, or how skeptical the characters’ viewpoints -- ultimately never reject the vision of faith.

Black novelists, Coleman concludes, stay connected in many ways to the culture that they write about. Faith, a source of strength historically for the Black community, remains a powerful influence on Black literature, as seen in the content, structure, ideology, and themes of twentieth-century African American novels. With its focus on religious experience and tradition and its wider discussion of history, philosophy, gender, and postmodernism, Faithful Vision brings a bold critical dimension to African American literary studies.

James W. Coleman is the author of Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman and Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban, which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches African American and American literature.
E-Mail James: coleman3@email.unc.edu >


Hokum
An Anthology of African American Humor
Edited by Paul Beatty
Selected and introduced by acclaimed novelist and poet Paul Beatty, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic collection of the funniest writing by Black Americans.

This book is less a comprehensive collection of African American humor than a mix-tape narrative dubbed by a trusted friend -- a sampler of underground classics, rare grooves, and timeless summer jams, poetry and prose juxtaposed with the blues, hip-hop, political speeches, and the world's funniest radio sermon. The subtle musings of Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas, and Harryette Mullen are bracketed by the profane and often loud ruminations of Langston Hughes, Darius James, Wanda Coleman, Tish Benson, Steve Cannon, and Hattie Gossett.

Some of the funniest writers don't write, so included are selections from well-known yet unpublished wits Lightnin' Hopkins, Mike Tyson, and the Reverend Al Sharpton. Selections also come from public figures and authors whose humor, although incisive and profound, is often overlooked: Malcolm X, Suzan-Lori Parks, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth, and W.E.B. Dubois. Groundbreaking, fierce, and hilarious, this is a necessary anthology for any fan or student of American writing, with a huge range and a smart, political grasp of the uses of humor.

Paul Beatty was born in Los Angeles in 1962. He was raised on kung fu triple features, samurai movies with no swordplay, V-8, Philly cheesesteak sandwiches from Al's Sandwich Shop, and his mother's frayed paperback library. He says, "I write because I'm too afraid to steal, too ugly to act, too weak to fight, and too stupid in math to be a cosmologist. As a result, he has authored two volumes of poetry, Big Bank Take Little Bank and Joker, Joker, Deuce, and two novels, The White Boy Shuffle and Tuff.

Beatty lives and works in New York. He received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in psychology from Boston University.
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From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
By Patricia Hill Collins
Despite legislation designed to eliminate unfair racial practices, the United States continues to struggle with a race problem. Some thinkers label this a "new" racism and call for new political responses to it. Using the experiences of African American women and men as a touchstone for analysis, Patricia Hill Collins examines new forms of racism as well as political responses to it.

In this incisive and stimulating book, renowned social theorist Patricia Hill Collins investigates how nationalism has operated and re-emerged in the wake of contemporary globalization and offers an interpretation of how Black nationalism works today in the wake of changing Black youth identity. Hers is the first study to analyze the interplay of racism, nationalism, and feminism in the context of twenty-first century Black America.

From Black Power to Hip Hop covers a wide range of topics including the significance of race and ethnicity to the American national identity; how ideas about motherhood affect population policies; African American use of Black nationalism ideologies as anti-racist practice; and the relationship between Black nationalism, feminism and women in the hip-hop generation.

Patricia Hill Collins is Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati and author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment and Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice.
E-Mail Patricia: collinph@email.uc.edu >


Cinnamon Kiss
A Novel
By Walter Mosley
New York Times bestseller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest challenge ever -- a terrifying murder during the Summer of Love (1967).

It is the Summer of Love as Cinnamon Kiss opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled -- but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch.

Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric prominent attorney. His assistant of sorts, the beautiful "Cinnamon" Cargill, is gone as well. Easy can tell there is much more than he is being told -- Robert Lee, his new employer, is as suspect as the man who disappeared. But his need overcomes all concerns, and he plunges into unfamiliar territory, from the newfound hippie enclaves to a vicious plot that stretches back to the battlefields of Europe.

Walter Mosley is the author of the bestselling Easy Rawlins series of mysteries, the novel R.L.'s Dream, and the story collection Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, for which he received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He was born in Los Angeles and has been at various times in his life a potter, a computer programmer, and a poet. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York.
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A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination,
and the Case That Should Have Changed History
By Joan Mellen
From the new evidence in the National Archives' JFK Assassination Records Collection and interviews with over one thousand people, author Joan Mellen in her comprehensive new book A Farewell to Justice demonstrates how the cover-up began in Louisiana months before President Kennedy was shot in Dallas.

Biographer Joan Mellen met New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1969. His relentless search for the truth about what happened to President Kennedy made a deep impression upon her. In 1997, Mellen started to work on the story of Garrison's life.

Her biography turned into the story of Garrison's investigation and then into a new investigation of the assassination itself.

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.

Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing President Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald was no Marxist and was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with U.S. Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Garrison interviewed various individuals involved in the assassination, ranging from Clay Shaw and CIA contract employee David Ferrie to a Marine cohort of Oswald named Kerry Thornley, who was also a Defense Intelligence asset. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, who speaks openly here for the first time.

Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up, set in motion well before the actual events of November 22, 1963.

NEW EVIDENCE INCLUDES: Robert Kennedy was aware of Oswald and his connection to the FBI before the assassination. RFK put Oswald under surveillance and had his Cuban associates tracking Oswald's movements during the summer of 1963.

Lee Oswald was not a loner but a government agent who worked not only for the New Orleans FBI office, but for U.S. Customs. Oswald was closely connected to CIA-sponsored anti-Castro figures in New Orleans at the International Trade Mart, that included Clay Shaw, David Ferrie and a Cuban associate of Shaw's named Juan Valdes.

Government documents reveal that the FBI and CIA actively worked with a number of journalists who “covered” the Garrison investigation, including reporters with Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as a government operative ostensibly employed by NBC television. An FBI document reveals J. Edgar Hoover directing his field offices to "Give Garrison nothing!"

The massive cover-up began north of Baton Rouge when Oswald, in the company of Shaw and Ferrie, applied for a job at the mental hospital in Jackson, LA. Mellen has the only known interview with the director of the hospital at that time, Dr. Frank Silva.

This book will become a landmark. As Mellen explains in the Preface, on the 40th Anniversary of President Kennedy's death in 2003, a Gallup Poll verified that twice as many people believed that the CIA was responsible for the assassination as believed that Oswald, a man without a motive, acted alone.

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Forbidden Fruit
Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
By Betty DeRamus
Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraordinary measures, risking life and limb to be together. It's the story of couples who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to defy the system that allowed slave masters to breed and sell people like cattle. Some broke the taboo against interracial marriage, putting their lives in the most severe peril.

In one story, a Georgia couple who fled slavery wearing multiple disguises sailed for England with bounty hunters and federal troops on their trail. A fugitive slave from Virginia spent seventeen arduous years searching for his wife. A Missouri slave fell in love with his White Mormon neighbor and escaped to Canada to be with her, putting pepper in his shoes to throw dogs off the scent at night and hiding in trees by day." Betty DeRamus gleaned these stories from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, books, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. Beautifully and compassionately written, this important book reveals a chapter of American history that is shameful but is about triumph as well as torture, achievement as well as degradation, and indomitable love as well as hate.

Betty DeRamus, former Detroit Free Press reporter and editorial writer and Detroit News columnist, received a Distinguished Journalism Citation from the Scripps Howard Foundation in 1980; first prize for education reporting from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 1980; first prize for commentary from the Overseas Press Club of America in 1980, the Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1983; and the Eugene Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writers in 1986.

Betty DeRamus was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in commentary for columns about the Los Angeles riots and was among the handful of print journalists who watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison in 1990. A short story writer, world-traveler and pianist, she lives in Detroit, her hometown.
E-Mail Betty: bjderamus@aol.com >


Wilt, 1962
The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era
By Gary M. Pomerantz
On the night of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers.

As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game was not televised; no New York sportswriters showed up; and a fourteen-year-old local boy ran onto the court when Chamberlain scored his hundredth point, shook his hand, and then ran off with the basketball. In telling the story of this remarkable night, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports.

In 1962, the National Basketball Association, stepchild to the college game, was searching for its identity. Its teams were mostly White, the number of Black players limited by an unspoken quota. Games were played in drafty, half-filled arenas, and the players traveled on buses and trains, telling tall tales, playing cards, and sometimes reading Joyce. Into this scene stepped the unprecedented Wilt Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, voluble and enigmatic, a seven-footer who played with a colossal will and a dancer's grace. That strength, will, grace, and mystery were never more in focus than on March 2, 1962.

Pomerantz tracked down Knicks and Philadelphia Warriors, fans, journalists, team officials, other NBA stars of the era, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 interviews in all, to recreate in painstaking detail the game that announced the Dipper's greatness. He brings us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, a sweet-seeming model of the gentle, homogeneous small-town America that was fast becoming anachronistic. We see the fans and players, alternately fascinated and confused by Wilt, drawn anxiously into the spectacle. Pomerantz portrays the other legendary figures in this story: the Warriors' elegant coach Frank McGuire; the beloved, if rumpled, team owner Eddie Gottlieb; and the irreverent public address announcer Dave "the Zink" Zinkoff, who handed out free salamis court-side.

At the heart of the book is the self-made Chamberlain, a romantic cosmopolitan who owned a nightclub in Harlem and shrugged off segregation with a bebop cool but harbored every slight deep in his psyche. March 2, 1962, presented the awesome sight of Wilt Chamberlain imposing himself on a world that would diminish him. Wilt, 1962 is not only the dramatic story of a singular basketball game but a meditation on small towns, mid-century America, and one of the most intriguing figures in the pantheon of sports heroes.

Pomerantz served from 1999-2001 as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at Emory University in Atlanta where he taught courses on news reporting and the history of the American press. A number of his former students work today for media outlets across the nation.

A 1982 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor's degree in history, Pomerantz served as a Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in 1987-88; there, he studied theater and the Bible.

Pomerantz has appeared on numerous local and national television and radio programs, including The CBS Early Show, CNN's Talk Back Live, the BBC World Service's Outlook and National Public Radio's Morning Edition and Talk of the Nation. Born in North Tarrytown, N.Y., he lives today in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife of more than 20 years, Carrie Schwab Pomerantz, and their three children.
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Alice Walker
A Life
By Evelyn C. White
Born to a sharecropping family in Georgia, Alice Walker thrived in the rich culture of what she called the "agrarian peasantry" to become one of our most important and popular writers. Evelyn C. White charts Alice Walker's childhood, marked by an incident at eight that left her blinded in her right eye and with disfiguring scar tissue and that prompted her, out of a sense of "ugliness," to probe human suffering through her poems and stories.

In this compelling and skillfully researched biography, we learn of Walker's activism in the 1960s freedom movement, and her leadership in the debate on Black women's art, politics, and sexuality. The Color Purple garnered Walker the Pulitzer Prize in fiction - the first awarded to a Black woman writer.

Drawing on papers, letters, journals, and extensive interviews with Walker, her family, friends, colleagues, and leading American cultural figures including Gloria Steinem, Quincy Jones, and Oprah Winfrey, White assesses one of the most influential writers of our time.

Evelyn C. White, journalist, author, and editor of The Black Women's Health Book, is a visiting scholar in women's studies at Mills College. She lives in Oakland, California, and in Canada.
E-Mail Evelyn: ecwecw@mills.edu >


A Change Is Gonna Come
Music, Race & the Soul of America
Revised & Updated Edition
By Craig Werner
A Change Is Gonna Come is the story of more than four decades of enormously influential Black music, from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement, to the slick pop of Motown; from the disco inferno to the Million Man March; from Woodstock's "Summer of Love" to the war in Vietnam and the race riots that inspired Marvin Gaye to write "What's Going On."

Originally published in 1998, A Change Is Gonna Come drew the attention of scholars and general readers alike. This new edition, featuring four new and updated chapters, will reintroduce Werner's seminal study of Black music to a new generation of readers.

Craig Werner is Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and author of many books, including Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. His most recent book is Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.
E-Mail Craig: cwerner@facstaff.wisc.edu >


Neo Soul
Taking Food to A Whole 'nutha Level
By Lindsey Williams
More than one hundred taste-tempting soul-food recipes.

From the grandson of Harlem's queen of soul food, Sylvia Woods, comes a new take on soul food-down-home cooking that tastes as good as the food you grew up with. Lindsey Williams knows soul food. He was raised in the kitchen of his grandmother's restaurant, Sylvia's, where he mastered the art of soul-food cooking. But being around all of that good food took its toll. When he tipped the scales at four hundred pounds, he knew he had to make some serious changes.

That's when he lost more than half his body weight and began his own brand of healthy soul-food cooking that's loved by the clients of his catering business. Now, with Neo Soul, we can all enjoy some guilt-free soul food.

Neo Soul features more than one hundred of Williams's delectable recipes, including Grandma's Roasted Turkey, Lenzo's Trout Stuffed with Collard Greens, Okra Gumbo, Neo Sweet Potato Pie, and Blueberry Buckle. They're all so good, you'll never miss the fat.

Lindsey Williams is the owner of Lindsey's 125 Catering, a healthy soul-food personal chef and catering company. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today show, and Live with Regis and Kelly, and his amazing story of weight loss has been featured in People magazine.


Fade
Voices from the Frontlines of Biracial America
By Elliott Lewis
Broadcast journalist Elliott Lewis combines his professional expertise as a news reporter with his Black-White family history and racial identity as a biracial person to look at the state of biracial identity in America. Fade to Black includes the accounting of his intimate, firsthand experiences as a mixed race child growing up in the 1960s and 70s, his family's generations-old history as biracial people, the larger cultural and political history of biracial identity and politics in the United States, as well as in-depth discussions on affirmative action, trans-racial adoption, sex and race, biracial families, "Black versus biracial," and building a biracial movement.

Elliott Lewis is a self-proclaimed "MBA, PhD" -- a Madcap Biracial American and Promoter of Human Diversity! He's an energetic, uplifting, thought-provoking, down to earth, and incredibly funny public speaker on multiracial identity and interracial family issues, appearing before any number of colleges and community groups each year.  Elliott is also a television news reporter who's been mistaken for everything from Hispanic to Egyptian, and was once referred to as "that White boy" at a family gathering.  In one case, a television viewer began to adjust the color on his TV set to try to determine Elliott's racial identity.
 
Elliott Lewis was born in Cleveland, Ohio and was raised in Pullman, Washington. Both of his parents are a mixture of Black and White.  He believes individuals of mixed race should be free to identify themselves racially in whatever manner makes sense to them given the totality of their life experience.  He considers himself "more Black than White, but more biracial than anything else." He currently lives in the Washington, DC area, and is a Region II Director for NABJ (National Association of Black Journalists).
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Excerpt from Fade:
Don’t Adjust Your Television, I’m Biracial

“Can I ask you something?”

“Sure,” I said.

“What is your racial background?”

Here we go again, I thought.

It was Thanksgiving Day, 1996. I was working as a reporter at WKMG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Orlando, Florida. I had just arrived at the local homeless shelter to prepare a report on a holiday tradition. Volunteers from throughout the community had gathered to serve up hundreds of free turkey dinners to those in need.

That’s the story I was covering. But at that moment, a Black man at the homeless shelter was the one asking the questions.

“What is your racial background?” he wanted to know.

The question has dogged me for as long as I can remember. As a child, I wasn’t quite sure what to say. Now, after years of practice, I’ve developed a standard answer.

“I’m biracial,” I told him.

“So that means what?” he asked, his face contorting as if he’d never heard the term.

“I’m a mixture of Black and White,” I continued.

“Oh... Just curious,” he said. Then he changed the subject.

No more than five minutes later, another Black man at the shelter called me over to his table. I thought he was going to ask not to have his picture taken, or ask me what time he might be on the news, or try to give me a tip on a possible story. That’s usually what’s happened whenever I’ve visited homeless shelters before. But instead he had something else on his mind.

“Hey, are you Black?” he blurted out.

But before I could even answer, the man spoke up again.

“You’re sort of Black. Aren’t you? Sort of?”

“I’m biracial,” I said, trying to act casual. “I’m both Black and White.”

At this point, I was beginning to wonder how many times I would have to go through this little interrogation before the day was over. That’s when the third Black man approached me.

“I was just wondering,” he began. “What race are you?”

I started to think that maybe I should just wear a sign around my neck. “I’m biracial. Get over it.” Or, “Stop staring. I’m mixed race.” Or better yet, “It’s a multiracial thing. You wouldn’t understand.”

REALITYCHECK

The Iraq in the 'Hood Connection
Incarcerated Blacks, Discrimination, HIV/AIDS and Declining US Military Strength

In what is surely the latest example of chickens coming home to roost, the US military is experiencing a major decline in the recruitment of young Black men. The connection that immediately comes to mind is the large numbers of young 17 to 35 year-old Black men being locked-up, lost to HIV/AIDS infection, and killed in the course of random violence -- not in Iraq -- in America.

Many in government won't see this nexus, or admit it when they do. Most average Americans have no idea of the extent to which the US defense readiness has been damaged. All the effort that has been put into the demise and neglect of Black male empowerment over the last 15 years is beginning to reap severe consequences. Beyond the glitz of Black celebrity media images and the hype of marginal Black middle class successes, the new millennium in general is showing highly significant signs of Black socioeconomic decline.

For Black males, low academic achievement from kindergarten to high school, low application to colleges, rising death rates related to AIDS and poor health, criminal violence, and off-the-grid antisocial behavior have become the norm for too many. Though there are examples of striving and accomplished Black men and boys, many have become targets and gristle for America's ignorance and emasculation machine. Some have even fallen into the triple-trap of surrender, cooperation and identification with the very entities perpetrating our demise.

Additionally, there has been a troubling development coming out of this effort. Growing numbers of Black women have found themselves with far too few positive choices for mates among Black men. Moreover, and genuinely most disappointing, a growing number of Black women have resorted to blaming the victim and seeing all or most Black men as the sole perpetrators of their own demise -- the no-win irony of being seen as both victim and victimizer.

This assumption may be true of some Black men, but way out of touch with the reality of the cradle-to-grave obstacles specifically put in the path of Black men who attempt to rise beyond the perceive expectations and perceptions of mainstream White American society. Though many Black men are up to the challenges and outright barriers, and many manage to even succeed, it doesn't take a socioeconomic psychology genius to understand that there continues to be specific long-term collateral damage to Black boys and men as a group. Systemically, think of all the Black boys that lack a psychologically whole Black father or male figure due to this ongoing socioeconomic devastation.

Nevertheless, despite the general complicity of significant parts of mainstream White America, diverse Black leaders, government institutions, from storefront to mega-churches, and the legions of blame-the-victim accusers, Black men still struggle to hold on and attempt to succeed. Black boys will still have a few significant examples of real Black men to follow, with substantive support from Black women who see and understand the big picture of our collective survival.

But, America as a whole will begin to notice that one of their best assets is being lost -- an asset that has sustained and expanded the socioeconomic power America has enjoyed for over a century. Perhaps, as nations like China and the European Union countries begin to pose a significantly damaging challenge to America, both economically and militarily, the nation's leaders and mainstream will realize that nurturing and empowering an asset results in better and greater dividends. Meanwhile, Black American men will have to stay strong and keep on keepin' on -- not just for America, but mostly for us.
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Paying The Reparations Debt
An Essential, Effective & Easily Earned Dividend

Considering Education Reparations -- There is no longer a real question or reasonable debate against the need for paying a reparations debt to Black American citizens. It is clearly in our national economic, social, and moral interests. Over the last 150 years, there have been many formal and informal efforts and promises to pay America’s actual victims, immediate relatives, or indigenous citizen-descendents of the slaves that produced the economic success and future of America. Over 100 years before this continent became the United States of America, African slaves were the backbone, muscle and flesh used to jump-start the economies of the original 13 colonies from Savannah-Georgia to New Hampshire. This head start sparked the unprecedented economic and political growth of a new nation -- within a comparatively short and tumultuous 150-plus years -- into a global superpower nation.

The attempted enslavement of native Americans, so-called Indians, became too troublesome due to their insurgent warfare and obvious territorial advantages. Repeatedly, history has proven the difficulty of physically enslaving people on their own land. As for the enslavement of Africans, putting an ocean and thousands of miles in distance between our land, cultures, and Black majority population base was a major key to controlling us as slaves. No doubt, as decades and centuries passed, mental enslavement became an easy and long-term benefit beyond physical slavery.

Fast forward through the American war for independence, westward land appropriations, the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, repatriation to Liberia, Jim Crow segregation, two World Wars, the Civil Rights revolution, the 2000 presidential election, and the Katrina disaster. By the way, to be historically accurate, the Revolutionary War for independence was actually for the right to continue, control, and profit from Black enslavement -- a response to Britain's efforts to outlaw slavery throughout its empire, and deprive America's anti-British landowners of an economy dependent on slave labor (read: Slave Nation: How Slavery United the Colonies & Sparked the American Revolution, by Alfred W. Blumrosen and Ruth G. Blumrosen).

Now is truly the time for reparations, here in a new millennium, after the promises of 40 acres with a mule, the H.R. 29 Bill of 1867 by Pennsylvania’s Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens for slave reparations, the efforts to attain national ex-slave pension legislation through the U.S. Congress in 1898 (read: My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations, by Mary Frances Berry), and Michigan Congressman John Conyer’s current H.R. 40 Bill. Also, let's not forget the diverse and official forms of compensation paid to World War II interned Japanese Americans, Jewish holocaust victims, and Native Americans throughout the 20th century. The legal and financial precedents have already been laid. The only discussion that needs to take place is what form of reparations will constitute reasonable compensation, and how it will be disbursed after decades of delay. The answers are much easier, equitable, practicable, and fiscally responsible than one might imagine. All one has to do is look at the common factor and the ongoing systematic pattern of socioeconomic and legal barriers purposely put in the way of Black Americans before and after the Civil War, through 20th century segregation, and now. The essential and common asset denied us has been information and education.

Education reparations are the most effective empowerment tool and valued commodity we could have over a century ago, and even more so today. Therefore, it is clear that the most essential, easy and effective form that reparations should take would be through educational empowerment. Instead of distributing billions of dollars through a dubious, contentious and unaccountable federal program, or budgeting billions on de facto poverty and incarceration programs, create a partnership of government and corporate endowment or annuity funds to finance a fully funded 4,000 acre (as in 100 years x 40 acres; minus the mule) university (Martin Luther King, Jr. University) to attain bachelor and master degrees in business administration, entrepreneurial studies, science, technology, engineering, medicine, education, global Black studies, law, public administration, community development, and ROTC military studies.

King University must be capable of graduating at least 4,000 students each year, with graduates required to work four years in a predominantly low-income Black American community in exchange for 4-6 years of tuition-free education. Though many basic course requirements will have a Black American cultural orientation, enrollment will be open to all certified American citizens. For additional long-term insurance and assurance, include a national endowment fund to cover the general operating costs for the two poorest historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) with the best graduation rate in each of the 22 HBCU states. Funding for the selected HBCU schools from the endowment fund will be based on strict overall academic performance standards and accountable fiscal responsibility guidelines. The total affordable cost, both sufficient and symbolic, is $40 billion -- nearly 40 decades (by the year 2019) since the arrival of the first ship with African slaves to North America in 1619. Far more federal and corporate money is wasted every year in America, whereas this endowment fund would cover the entire cost of constructing and maintaining a major centrally located 4,000 acre (6.25 square miles) super-campus beyond 200 years. Additionally, the HBCU schools will benefit operationally over the same period of time from this interest-bearing fund, as well as enhancing their accreditation status based on similar academic and fiscal requirements.

Knowledge has always been, and will always be, the most valuable socioeconomic commodity in human history. The rise and fall of nations have historically been linked to their accumulation, use, and broad dissemination of this critical commodity for its citizens. Knowledge acquired through education has always been our bridge to individual and collective empowerment. During America's first 100-plus years, slave masters felt justified to deter, beat, torture, or kill slaves seeking this powerful commodity -- education. Clearly, education was, and is, the path to emancipation that led to empowerment. Those multi-century atrocities and the generations that suffer from later versions of deterrence can now be best atoned by fair and full compensation through education reparations.

The genuinely immediate and long-term dividends for all of America is a larger educationally empowered populace that will raise the social and economic global status of our nation as a whole. Moreover, education reparations will create a much larger homegrown pool and multi-generations of Black American citizens that will restore and energize America’s faltering socioeconomic engine -- an engine that’s increasingly being battered and weakened by diverse global entities. Surely, there is plenty of historical and current evidence proving that these global entities have little or no regard for our national economic or social interests. In a time of growing global competition, the far reaching dividends from education reparations will be most timely. Continued delays and arguments against these dividends will reveal the true national loyalties and global agenda of the opponents of education reparations.
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Words, Truth & Integrity:
How Oprah Affirmed Trust

In what may go down as a landmark episode in television talk show history, Oprah Winfrey presented a riveting live broadcast with A Million Little Pieces author James Frey. The principles of verifiable truth and substantive integrity gleamed in a bright light through Ms. Winfrey's telecast on what has become the iconic victim of our time -- truth.

"The truth matters," as Oprah firmly exclaimed toward the close of her Thursday show. When it comes to book publishing in particular, there is a genuine difference between non-fiction and fiction. Regardless of any post-publishing endorsements, accolades or critic appraisals, the publisher is the initial and final guardian of any book's integrity.

In an era of digital and high-speed print publishing, time still needs to be taken to verify non-fiction facts and sources must be vetted. The urge and rush to market a book for sales advantage is no excuse for shoddy fact checking of memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, news or other sources of reality. Considering the millions-to-billions of dollars earned by small and large publishing houses, how much of their profit margin is sacrificed by having a dedicated staff of fact checkers.

Hopefully, we haven't crossed into the age of fact checking on the cheap with the advent of online journalism and infovestigators. The new paradigm of real-time digital information dissemination, from casual bloggers to fact-focused cybernauts, may be the newest line in defense of truth. Not that the Internet is a bastion of integrity and civility, its just that most serious online journalist don't seek to be ass-out before the www -- whole wide world. Just about everyone who uses this new medium professionally already knows that reputations can be quickly born and destroyed through words.

Though Oprah affirmed that this latest injury to truth and trust was "deeply embarrassing," the shame should be fully assumed by the publisher for simply not doing its basic job. As children, we are taught to review and check our homework. This function becomes no less important as adults, and for the authors and publishers of literary works at Doubleday and Anchor Books.

I, for one, will still respect and respond to the integrity that remains at the core of Oprah and her book club. Beyond this momentary distraction from truth and trust by one author, and his publisher, Oprah's honest revelation and admitted "mistake" should be empowering evidence that individual truth and integrity still exists -- all the more reason for continuing to believe in books and words.

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job seeker, you may not realize that most employment recruiters spend about one minute to browse, assess and file your résumé. In tight job markets and high volumes of résumé submissions, you need a résumé that stands out and gets right to the point. In a research of successful employees, want ads, special employment resources, employment services, corporate human resources departments and recruiters, BOOKSandWORDS.com discovered that there is a universal or “magic” résumé that every employer looks for among the daily piles of paper. This résumé format instantly shows how qualified you are for a particular job and what you have to back it up. We call this format the S.E.E.R. résumé: Skills, Experience, Education and References (see half-page sample below). S.E.E.R. résumés enable employers to clearly see your specific occupational assets when measuring their immediate and future recruitment needs. The S.E.E.R. format is very effective in all professional job application categories. This format is especially useful when applied to administrative, technical, specialist, service, temporary, freelance and entry level job résumés. Also consider, this allows the employment specialist to assess your overall hiring potential, specific skills, and quickly check all references. When your résumé provides these three elements, you’ll have a built-in advantage as a primary job candidate. Remember, your résumé is what introduces you to a new job.

Always type and edit your résumé in a computer word processing program such as Word, WordPerfect, PageMaker,and others. You can also download a completely free and very powerful program called AbiWord at AbiWord.com It’s very user-friendly, and recognizes over 110 language versions. Most important, please use the spell-check and grammar-check in any of the software programs. Use modern 10 to 14 point size fonts, such as Arial, Futura or Franklin Gothic (including their bold font versions for titles). These modern typeface styles empower your  résumé for easier reading,
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Clear-to-the-point descriptions are what employers look for, not your life story. When necessary or desired, include a separate cover letter of no more than three paragraphs (4 concise sentences or less per paragraph) to briefly highlight your interest or objective, and qualifications for the job, as well as your compatibility with the company. On this point, we advise that you check-up on the company’s corporate history and current events by going to Hoovers.com or Google.com (type company’s name in the Search News box). If available, be sure to visit the company’s or agency’s website too. No doubt, a company website provides valuable information for job seekers.

Based on our research and feedback, you will get more positive responses when you are knowledgeable about the potential employer and present a résumé that backs-up your interest. Some may even compliment you on your résumé’s informative, organized and reader-friendly qualities. Clearly, this compliment will be a positive and memorable reflection on you as a good candidate for the job of your choice. Below is a shortened half-page version of our S.E.E.R. résumé. Please remember, due to hundreds of weekly résumés an employer or agency receives, a 1-page, 11/2 page or
2-page résumé gets read first. A résumé that covers the current and last three jobs (if you had that many) is appropriate. You can elaborate on your current and previous work history during telephone or in-person interviews. Any other significant employment, background information, skill sets, training and job related commendations or awards you have should be briefly included in your three-paragraph cover letter. When it comes to your best job asset or assets, make it clear, keep it real, and always be factual. Employers will check. It’s a fact, you will rarely get a second chance to make a good first impression.

Always keep a time, date, description and contact information record
of all the employers (or persons) you send a résumé to, or speak with. Usually, direct contact and résumés to an employer’s human resources department or specific hiring person speeds-up the job search process. Creating a friendly professional relationship directly with a job source can be a time saver. Unfortunately, at too many employment agencies, you can end up being just a telephone number among the hundreds that an agent may call. Direct contact, without or before contacting an agency, can lead to a faster application process. In many cases, this saves the hiring company money and time from using agencies, and gets you hired much quicker. Be flexible during the process, but when appropriate don’t be afraid to ask about salary and/or benefits based on your skills and length of experience. You can also check-out the current occupational salary rate and multi-city cost-of-living comparisons at Salary.com. Remember, salary levels are based on the local cost of living rates. Employers usually pay the local rate or higher depending on local skill demands, as well as what you may negotiate along with other benefits. Always be prepared and willing to negotiate based on realistic salary needs in relation to what an  employer can afford now and three years (or raises) later.

After 2 or 3 business days, follow-up with a polite after-lunch time call to confirm that your résumé was received, as well as get a realistic sense of where you are in the company’s hiring process and their interest in your application. Remember, keep a record. This professional and proactive approach will let the employer know how interested you are in the job, and gives you a chance to assess your progress in case job search tactics need to be adjusted. It also saves you from a lot of wasted time, travel money and needless stress. It’s no secret that job hunts have a cost. Lower the personal and financial costs by being organized, proactive and informed. Despite the stresses, never forget to be cordial, but natural. Your personality and attitude are equally important as experience and aptitude in the hiring process. No company wants a good worker with a bad attitude. If this sounds like you, no doubt, they are quietly seeking your replacement.

Lastly, and most important, be sure to include a current telephone number (two personal numbers are best) and a reliable personal e-mail address. It is completely ethical and justified for you to be private and protective about your future job plans. While job searching, if your current employer directly offers you better advancement, benefits and salary, then assess and decide based on what is in YOUR BEST long term interest.

PLEASE!!!. Never use your current employer’s e-mail system, telephones or monitored Internet access when searching for a job. Nowadays, in the ‘Digital Age,’ a digital record can be made and put into a database of everything you do on a company’s telecommunications system. Yes! At many businesses and agencies, even the phone number, fax data, web address, computer keystrokes, and your conversation is digitized and stored. Unknown to you, in many cities and companies, non-company use
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