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Articles in Sept-Oct, 2004 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Challenging cliches
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Flying off the shelves
• Noteworthy titles
• Dave Chappelle
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Noteworthy titles
• The Dinah Project: a Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence
  by Kathi R. Chavous
• Children of the Movement
  by Shatema Threadcraft
• Passing Through
  by Denolyn Carroll
• Dancing on Main Street
  by Holly Bass
• Other noteworthy titles
• A short history of contemporary black erotic fiction: the best of black erotic literature since 1992 reveals as much about our souls and how they connect as it does about how we entangle and unite our bodies
  by Denolyn Carroll
• A quest for righteous reading: with its focus on Christian-based books, Literally Speaking Publishing House aims to publish books that speak to the heart and spirit
• Gay lit
  by Don Weise
• Ronin Ro
• Other noteworthy titles
• Take Back Higher Education: Race, Youth and the Crisis of Democracy in the Post-Civil War Era
  by Pearl Stewart
• Recipe for Success: the 21 Indispensable Things That Can Help You Succeed in Life
• Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet's Handbook
  by Howard Rambsy, II
• Sweet Music in Harlem
  by Vance Garcia
• Mountain memories: a wave of new books from scholars shed light on the Appalachian past shared by many African Americans
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Joe Jackson
• Angela Henry
• Guiding young adults
  by Elizabeth Atkins
• From Abyssinian to Zion: a Guide to Manhattan's House of Worship
• On the Down Low: a Journey Into the Lives of "Straight" Black Men Who Sleep with Men
  by Brenda Wade
• Havoc After Dark: Tales of Terror
  by Bernadette Adams Davis
• Recommended bookstores
• James Baldwin's legacy: seventeen years after his death, at age 63, one of America's most influential and unsettling writers still has the authoritative voice of that fabled first ancestor
  by Benoit Depardieu
• Self-care and reflection: fall brings most of us back into the season's work and school routines—a good time also for a new hairstyle or a lifestyle improvement
  by Elizabeth Atkins
• More on self-publishers
  by LaSuana Parker
• Veronica Chambers
• Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela
  by Herb Boyd
• Rise Up: a Call to Leadership for African American Women
  by Tracey D. Weaver
• The sound of silence: two books encourage open dialogue about the complexities of sexual abuse, gender bias and racism in our society
  by Charisse Jones
• Soul City
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Slave Moth: a Narrative in Verse
  by Tonya C. Hegamin
• Sweet Jasmine, Nice Jackson: What It's Like to Be 2, and to Be Twins!
  by Carolyn Edgar
• Mumia's voice: confined to Pennsylvania's death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal remains at the center of debate as he continues to write and options to appeal his police murder conviction dwindle
  by Todd Steven Burroughs
• Zane, Inc.: she has much more on her mind than black erotica. Behind the best-selling author's pseudonym is a shrewd businesswoman, astute publishing entrepreneur and—oh, yes—a wife and mother of four
  by Kalyn Johnson
• Richard Pryor
• Brandon Massey
• Keeping it natural
  by Elizabeth Atkins
• Longing for Daddy: Healing from the Pain of an Absent or Emotionally Distant Father
  by Danielle Rogers
• Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon
  by Khalil Abdullah
• Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery
  by Susan McHenry
• The making of a people's pundit: writing about a dysfunctional political system and people who don't vote is as much about healing anger as it is about righting wrongs and affirming rights
  by Farai Chideya
• He ain't heavy
  by Suzanne Rust
• It's urban, it's real, but is this literature? Controversy rages over a new genre whose sales are headed off the charts
  by Malcolm Venable
• We shall not be moved: D.C.'s Sisterspace and Books fights to keep historic U Street location
• Taking BIBR on vacation
  by Lucy Hall
• Aaron McGruder
• Noteworthy titles
• It's Not About You … It's About God
  by Nicole Lee
• Other noteworthy titles
• White out: blacks screened out on the boob tube—one community's story
  by Todd Steven Burroughs
• Macnolia
  by Gregory Pardlo
• Vince Carter: Choose Your Course
  by Art Rust, Jr.
• Up close and personal with "Uptown Bill": because of two very special in-store appearances by the former President, black-owned bookstores in Harlem and Los Angeles sold out their My Life copies
  by Herb Boyd
• DeBerry and grant calling … South Carolina club is excited about winning essay contest
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Pulp fiction
  by William E. Cox
• Alicia Keys
• Sanyu Dillon
• Other noteworthy titles
• Low Road: the Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
  by Imelda Hunt
• The Million Dollar Divorce
  by Glenn Townes
• Let every child relate: a publishing veteran launches the Just For You! book series with black characters and unifying themes
  by Suzanne Rust
• Remembering Jimmy: contemporary writers reflect on their personal encounters with the man, the mentor, the novelist, the essayist
  by Arlene McKanic
• What do those big publishers want anyway? Editors for major publishing houses tell how they scout for acquisitions among self-published titles
  by Victoria Christopher Murray
• A study in contrasts
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Holly Robinson Peete
• Signings & sightings
• A primer for print collectors
  by Michael Days
• The most wonderful time of the year: gear up for fall with a few desktop tools, puzzles and flash cards
• And It Don't Stop: the Best American Hip-Hip Journalism of the Last 25 Years
• Ida B
  by Vanessa Bush
• What Is Goodbye?
  by Elise Virginia Ward
• Wil Haygood
• Donnie Williams with Wayne Greenhaw's The Thunder of Angels: Behind the Scenes of Segregation, an exclusive look at the lives of little recognized players in the Montgomery, Alabama, fight for civil rights
• Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee
  by Regina Cash-Clark

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