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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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BOTTOMLINES Words, Truth & Integrity: How Oprah Affirmed Trust
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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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 >
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REALITYCHECK
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Too Much Less For 'Millions More'
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