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Articles in May-June, 2005 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Flying off the shelves
• In praise of Ossie
  by Angela P. Dodson
• 2005 Ad
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Catch the keynote, Ossie Davis: a mighty laborer in the field of the arts, a majestic voice for integrity has gone on ahead
  by Haki R. Madhubuti
• Mirrors of masculinity: defining the state of the black male has never been easy, but a few selections can offer clues as to what's on the minds of many who make an effort to do so
  by Khalil Abdullah
• Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words
  by Lynne Duke
• Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
• To whom it may concern: memoirs of civil rights leaders, some never written, put flesh on the story of the Movement
  by Fred Beauford
• Starting over: the retiring co-owner of Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem reflects on a life in bookselling
  by Clara C. Villarosa
• 2005 Ad
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Check it out: libraries remain important players in the book-selling market
  by Gwendolyn E. Osborne
• All God's children: a study on African American Mormons and guides for women of the spirit challenge the heart
  by Tracey D. Weaver
• Of race and justice: a book on a 1920s racial battle beat out stiff competition for national honor and may have helped spawn a competing award
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Oscar's Half Birthday
• Afterburn: A Novel
  by Monique W. Morris
• Changing of the guard
  by Angela P. Dodson
• BookExpo 2005: the grandest book "party" comes back to the publishing capital of the world
  by Robin Green
• Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir
  by Jill L. Cox
• Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America
  by Rick Blalock
• Doctors' orders: read early: a novel literacy program enlists medical professionals and volunteer readers to start young children reading
  by Suzanne Rust
• The Strong, Silent Type
  by Mary N. Oluonye
• The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
  by Tonya Cherie Hegamin
• 2005 Ad
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Word for word, bit by bit: no matter the promise, opinions are split on Google's plans to scan library books
  by Robert S. Anthony
• Noteworthy title
• Some people who love J. California Cooper: Doubleday essay contest awards copies of the beloved author's books
• A season for stories of the past and present: choices for the young range from a civil rights lesson to a fish tale
  by Suzanne Rust
• The Best-Kept Secret
  by Glenn Townes
• 2 daring artists: past and present
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Of logos and expos
  by William E. Cox
• 2005 Ad
  by Angela P. Dodson
• The word workers: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee shared many things, among them a reverence for seeing language breathed into life
  by Sharon D. Johnson
• Remembering mama: images of mothers, good, bad, real or fictive abound in our literary tradition
  by Bernadette Adams Davis
• Dreams, promises and disappointments: Hollywood's racial past, Virginia's forgotten free enclave, Jamaica Kincaid's search for flowers and other offerings
  by Antoinette Dykes
• The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom
• Listening to the muses: Phylicia Rashad and LisaGay Hamilton reflect on how the voices of many writers spark their acting
  by Sharita Hunt
• Is anybody out there? A closer look at the dire picture unearthed in the NEA's Reading at Risk study turns up some hopeful signs
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Deborah Willis, photographer, winner of the MacArthur "genius" Award and professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Signings & sightings
• Dear Senator: A Memoir of the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Noteworthy titles
• The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College
  by Robin M. Dasher-Alston
• Gimme an O!
  by Tiffany A. Simpkins
• Celebrating Black music month, June 2005
  by Justin Adewale Collins
• Fight my battles: gay pride month special, June 2005: books to tackle life's legal complications in the black LGBT community
  by Steven G. Fullwood
• The look of BIBR
  by Tiffany L. Colvin
• Diane McKinney-Whetstone won the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for fiction
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Inspiration for drama: playwrights ponder the literary influences that inform their work
  by Joseph P. Blake
• Aim high: guides for navigating inner lives and corporate turf
  by Cecily D. Cooper
• Israel on the Appomattox: a Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1700s through the Civil War
  by Herb Boyd
• Wit and wisdom: short stories by a master and novels by a variety of writers take us on odd journeys
  by Robert Fleming
• Digging deeper
• West Coast kinfolk: in Los Angeles, Chris Abani and Kamau Daaood stand out as strong limbs on the family tree of literature
  by Michael Datcher
• The AIDS crisis
  by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Deal
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Some kind of kin: complex bonds and confused racial identities emerge in histories of African American families
  by Pat L. Simmons
• Self-published reviews
  by Antoinette Dykes
• Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya
  by Regina Cash-Clark
• Expired
  by Arphelia K. Cabell
• Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books
  by Nia Ngina Meeks
• Tool for libraries
  by Ronald M. Gauthier
• Ma Dear's Old Green House written by Denise Lewis Patrick and illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, published by Just Us Books, Inc., was awarded the Children's Book of the Year honor by the African American Academy of Arts and Letters
  by Angela P. Dodson
• The power of the drum, and making music to a different beat
  by Anthony C. Davis
• The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths Reclaiming Joy
  by Denise Simon
• Postcolonial Melancholia
  by R. Owen Williams
• Johnny Mad Dog
  by Denise Simon
• Branches of the ancestral tree: a sampler of resources for planning a gathering of relatives, researching African American roots or just basking in the rich histories of our people
  by Carolyn H. Robinson
• Poets and celebrities
  by Gregory Bryant
• "Audie" finalists include: The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley, read by Ernie Hudson; The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad and Hana Ali, read by Ossie Davis and Hana Ali; and When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan
  by Angela P. Dodson
• You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir
  by Nicole Shaw
• Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart
  by Felicia Pride
• Interesting Times: Essays and Nonfiction
  by C. Gerald Fraser
• The Executioner's Game
  by Tanu T. Henry
• Brainstorming for success: with the help of good coaches, an author propels a business book to mainstream best-seller status
  by Lynnette Khalfani