Black Issues Book Review

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Articles in Sept-Oct 2006 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Endorsement for comics
  by William H. Foster, III
• Playing by the Rules
  by Melissa Ewey Johnson
• "The most dangerous organization in America": forty years after the founding of the Black Panther Party, new books amplify the story of courage, martyrdom and futility
  by Fred Beauford
• Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
  by Denise M. Doig
• Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend
  by C. Gerald Fraser
• Hunger
  by Denise M. Doig
• Worlds of change: the latest scholarly works for fall and winter release
  by Sandra L. Jamison
• The Great One: Katherine Dunham Turning Anthropology Into Art
  by Karen Brown
• Thomas takes her talents to Warner Books
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
  by Art Rust, Jr.
• Lost Hearts in Italy
  by Marjorie Valbrun
• Textbooks: the big squeeze: increasing costs, often fueled by frequent updates and high-tech extras many professors don't use, put students in a bind
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Flying off the shelves
• Passion-filled pages for Kimani Press
  by Angela P. Dodson
• In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
  by Sandra Rattley
• Will You Be Mine?
  by Denolyn Carroll
• Harlem hosts first "Up South" Book Fest
  by Angela P. Dodson
• From the inside out: in his book, a journalist tells what going back to high school taught him about today's educational challenges
  by Lewis Diuguid
• Romance Awards
  by Gwendolyn Osborne
• Nonfiction
• Heroes and She-roes: releases for fall explore role models, trailblazers and history makers
  by Suzanne Rust
• Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do about Itt
  by C. Gerald Fraser
• The Caine Prize for African writing was awarded in July to Mary Watson of Cape Town, South Africa, for her short story "Jungfrau" from her collection Moss
• Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings by Ossie Davis
  by Woodie King, Jr.
• Fiction
• Across the generations
  by Jacquline Leslie
• Winners of the Zora Neale Hurston/ Richard Wright Foundation's Legacy Awards will be announced at a ceremony on November 3 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C
• The Immortality of Influence
  by Malik Russell
• As big as Texas: one club reaches out to others to form statewide conference
  by Pat Houser
• In my writing place: creating fine literature for the young is not all child's play
  by Eloise Greenfield
• The Outreach Council of the African Studies Association announced winners of the 2006 Children's Africana Book Awards for authors and illustrators of outstanding books about Africa published in the United States for young children and older readers
• The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty
  by Thulani Davis
• Take a bow … NBCC honors the best of the best
  by Gwendolyn Osborne
• Hard labor: scholars chronicle the relationship of African Americans to unions and the industrialization of America
  by Dana Crum
• Signings & sightings: events
• All Aunt Hagar's Children
  by Denise Simon
• Tupac: life goes on: why the rapper still appeals to fans and captivates scholars a decade after his death
  by Michael Eric Dyson
• Meanwhile, back at the crypt: new black vampire and horror tales are so sexy
  by Cynthia E. Staples
• Thanks from a self-publisher
  by Ronald Gauthier
• Great Sky Woman
  by Dana Crum
• Urban lit goes legit: authors headline new ventures to bring street cred into the world of corporate publishing
  by Earni Young
• Tambourines to Glory
  by Dana Crum