Black Issues Book Review
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Articles in Nov-Dec 2005 issue of Black Issues Book Review
- Best photography books
by Grace L. Williams - Teen Spirit: One World, Many Paths
by Deja Lashaun Mathews - Somewhere Else
by Tonya C. Hegamin - My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for the Ex-Slave Reparations
by R. Owen Williams - Dissolve
by Allen Powell, II - A man of many gifts: for Oscar Brown Jr., music and words were a driving force: his art remains an enduring reminder of just how much he enriched American culture with his performances, wit, songs, plays, essays and activism
by Herb Boyd - BIBR's best of 2005: a roundup of the year's best books from a bumper crop of new novels by seasoned African American talents, as well as noteworthy debuts
- Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan
by Cameron - Grounded in the Word: A Guide to Mastering Standardized Test Vocabulary and Biblical Comprehension
by Deja Lashuan Mathews - Wise Fish: Tales in 6/8 Time
by Patricia Spears Jones - Black skins, silver screen: two early stars of Hollywood lived with stereotypes but held their own
by Woodie King, Jr. - 26A by Diana Evans
by Denise Simon - Thoughts that count: some of our favorite authors choose the one book they would give as a gift this holiday
- Honoring a dad
by Hasna Muhammad - It Is the Wind
by Michael - Bang!
by Desiree Harrison - Mercy
by Kelly Norman Ellis - Brickhouse
by Nicole Shaw - The city that reads together … as "One Book" programs mushroom, so do sales for a select few African American authors
by Earni Young - Transition noted: John H. Johnson, 1918-2005: a book publisher reflects on Ebony founder's legacy
- Little Stevie Wonder
by Warner - Feast of love: a Kwanzaa celebration to remember
by Eric V. Copage - The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daaood
by E.J. Antonio - Easy Rawlins is back!
- Retail report2005: Florida bookseller comes full circle, as others take off in new directions
by Gwendolyn E. Osborne - Signings & sightings
- My Best Friend
by Sofia - Getting to Amen: 8 Strategies for Managing Conflict in the African American Church
by Tracy D. Weaver - Fledgling
by Bernadette Adams Davis - A feast of photographers
by William E. Cox - Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood
by Sandra L. Jamison - Mixed media
by Angela P. Dodson - What might have been: where research ends and imagination takes over in fiction
by Martha Southgate - Sunshine Has Rain
by Antoinette Dykes - Ring in the holidays
- Where the Edge Gathers: Building a Community of Radical Inclusion
by Monica C. Jones - The Vow
by Melissa Ewey Johnson - What we can do
by Angela P. Dodson - Confessions of a Video Vixen
by Jonathan Luckett - The "talking head": with the "paid-mouthpiece" episode behind him, Armstrong Williams plans a book
by Wayne Dawkins - The Joshua Tree
by Antoinette Dykes - Extending a heart
- Lift Up Your Hands: Raise Your Praise and Get Lost in God
by Kevin Wayne Johnson - The Hot Spot
by Regina Cash-Clark - Gordon Parks: a lion in winter: on living life as one "superb feast"
by Deborah Willis - Flying off the shelves
- E-clubs: an update on online book clubs that unite eager readers and authors
by Ingrid Sturgis - It's a Shame to Be a Negro
by Antoinette Dykes - The best of the bestfor kids only
by Sandra L. Jamison - My Proposal: Nothing But a Gracechild
by Kristin Henning - Resurrecting Langston Blue
by Charisse Jones - Cherishing African heritage: preservers and scholars discuss the historic cultural values and contemporary significance
- From stage to page: love of theater and books draws club members
by Angela P. Dodson - Brotherwood
by Antoinette Dykes - Best books of 2005
- Sam Cooke: legend: biography documents the roots of soul through a star's life
by Orlando Lima - Righteous recipes: from Harlem to the Deep South, new cookbooks invite a fresh look at ethnic and regional cuisines
by Angela P. Dodson - At their level: seasoned children's author is at it again
by Grace L. Williams - 'The Color Purple' in restrospect: twenty years after the debut, the film's beauty never fades
by Bernadette Adams Davis - Other noteworthy titles
- The Blueprint for My Girls in Love: 99 Rules for Dating, Relationships and Intimacy
by Yvonne Fleetwood - The Prodigal: A Poem
by Randall Horton - Rise and Fly: Tall Tales and Mostly True Rules of Bid Whist
by Wayne Dawkins - Haarlem: A Novel
by Zakia Munirah Carter - Me and my shadow: a remarkable first novel from a young Brit haunts the mind and soul
by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu - Fine art, fine books: a well-thought-out library for the serious collector
by Cheryl Sutton