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Articles in Jan-Feb, 2005 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• A platform for nurturing new literary talent: the Hurston/Wright foundation and its cofounder Marita Golden discover and groom emerging writers of African descent
  by Patrice Gaines
• Books for the motherland: alliance celebrates black history month with a campaign for literacy in rural Ghana
  by Pittershawn Palmer
• Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad As Told by Levi Coffin and William Still
  by R. Owen Williams
• Judging Thomas: Tim Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
  by Kalyn Johnson
• Adventures in the Blogosphere: as Internet journals come into their own, African American voices are rising above the noise
  by Ingrid Sturgis
• Dr. King's Refrigerator and Other Bedtime Stories
  by Tanu T. Henry
• Images of a master: Roman Bearden
  by Michael Days
• 2004 Ad
• High Impact African-American Churches: Leadership Concepts From Some of Today's Most Effective Churches
  by Kristin Henning
• Book sales finance livestock
• Youthful self-discovery: a host of new titles inspires young minds to march to their own drumbeats
  by Suzanne Rust
• The Accidental Hunter
  by Malcolm Venable
• A collector's encompassing eye
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Deals
• Foxxy casting for Hardwick's spy novel
• Frontiers of Freedom: Cincinnati's Black Community, 1802-1868
  by Andria Y. Carter
• BIBR news
• American slavery: the ties that bind: newest studies lay bare the painful facts of an ignoble history
  by Fred Beauford
• Guide to the evolving genres of women's fiction: as the lines blur between romance and "chick lit," how does a reader tell the difference?
  by Monica Harris