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Articles in May-July, 2004 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Flying off the shelves
• Life before Brown—and after
  by William E. Cox
• Out of the wilderness: books that explore a vast range of black religious experiences
  by Rosemarie Robotham
• The Darkest Child
  by Carroll Parrott Blue
• 2004 Ad
• The mother of all black Book Clubs: after 13 years, Go on Girl! has become a national presence with more than 300 members in 12 states
  by Pat Houser
• Dax Devlon-Ross's
• Chronicles of the movement: the greatest hits among the important books that have shaped the record of America's civil rights struggles
  by Shatema Threadcraft
• Evie Rhodes
• In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman's Narrative
  by Denise Simon
• Warrior Poet: a Biography of Audre Lorde
  by Holly Bass
• Africa reborn for the 21st century: a decade after the end of South African apartheid and the horrors of Rwandan genocide, an African American journalist talks about turning her witness to history into a book
  by Lynne Duke
• Nina Foxx's
• The goings-on at the 2004 BookExpo: this year, all eyes and ears in the publishing industry will focus on Chicago, host city of BookExpo America
  by Robin Green
• Divine folk art
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Congratulations!
  by Leslie Williams
• The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
  by Herb Boyd
• Leaving Cecil Street
  by Earni Young
• Helen Oyeyemi
• Known world
• Triple crown winner: in the hot category of urban fiction, ex-offender Victoria Stringer self-published her story and launched her successful, independent press
  by Victoria Christopher Murray
• Monsieur de Saint-George: Virtuoso, Swordsman, Revolutionary, a Legendary Life Rediscovered
  by Joy Duckett Cain
• The gifts of the grandmother spirit: Alice Walker's seventh novel examines the questing soul
  by Susan McHenry
• Whoopi at kid level
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Learning as we climb: stories about the Civil Rights Movement for young readers
  by Suzanne Rust
• Venus and Serena Williams'
• Defending quality public education for all
  by Tavis Smiley
• The Great White Fathers' Failings
  by Janet Cheatham Bell
• A pivotal year for social change: so much happened in 1968, Mark Kurlansky makes good use his "quirky verve" to write a narrative history
  by Pearl Stewart
• Better Than I Know Myself
  by Kalyn Johnson
• Nathan Blakeslee's
• Rebecca Carroll's
• Room at the inn for writers: a D.C. bed-and-breakfast not only caters to booklovers as paying guests, but runs a free writer-in-residence program
  by A'Lelia Bundles
• Rosalyn Story's
• To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955-1968
  by Anthony C. Davis
• Our Brown stories
  by Angela P. Dodson
• How black booksellers are reinventing themselves: an uncertain economy and stepped-up competition from other retailers keep black independents on their toes
  by Emma Rodgers
• Pamela Newkirk's
• The unfinished agenda of Brown v. Board of Education: a new book compiled by Black Issues in Higher Education, BIBR's sister publication, examines the impact of the landmark civil rights court decision 50 years later. BIBR excerpts it below
  by Tavis Smiley
• A complete map of Reggae: the Caribbean beat's journey through the Diaspora, plus the "Black Mozart"
  by Anthony C. Davis
• Correction
• Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex
  by Donia Elizabeth Allen
• Voices from the Quarters: the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines
  by Herb Boyd
• Ya, Sweden: for one of New York City's culinary stars, Scandinavian cuisine is just good homecooking
  by Melissa Ewey Johnson
• Christopher John Farley
• Diggs joins literary agency
• Celebrating love, honor and achievement: gifts for bookloving moms and dads, newlyweds and grads
  by Gwendolyn E. Osborne
• Reading Black music
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• A scrapbook for the whole race
  by Robin Green
• Urban legend
• Choice high-tech gifts: cool digital cameras, mobile accessories and wired watches are more affordable than ever
  by Robert S. Anthony
• Jacqueline Tobin
• Speaking volumes about Brown: scholarly works review the record of the landmark mid-20th century ruling
  by Herb Boyd
• JR Lankford's
• Death of Innocence: the Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
  by Marcia A. Smith
• The love scene
  by Bernadette Adams Davis
• The Devil's Garden
  by Gregory Pardlo
• Zadie Smith's
• Cutting out the middlemen
• An all-star collection
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Jill Nelson's
• Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black Millionaire
  by Carole Merritt
• Adventures in growing up: the latest book in Jackie Hardrick's self-published Imani series keeps the drama of teen angst in perspective
  by Brittiany McCree
• Mastering deceit: Jayson Blair, self-avowed plagiarist/fabricator who brought shame on himself and The New York Times, keeps a straight face before skeptics as BIBR asks the questions
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Kayla Perrin's
• Signings & sightings
• Images with definition
  by Angela P. Dodson