black history
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Odetta (1930-2008)
The voice of the Civil Rights Movement. After a battle with heart disease. She was 77. Read more
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Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008)
I’m not a political singer. I don’t know what the word means. People think I consciously decided to tell the world what was happening in South Africa. No! I was singing about my life, and in South Africa we always sang about what was happening to us — especially the things that hurt us. Read more
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Red River/Lalita Tademy
When I heard that Lalita Tademy had released a new book, Red River, I was really excited for a couple of reasons. The first one was that I had read Cane River, the chronicle of the times of her mother’s ancestors. The second was that I was very familiar with the area of Louisiana in… Read more
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The Known World/Edward P. Jones
The Known World by Edward P. Jones could be best summarized by the following passage. Winifred had meant no bad thing by the words. With what little money she had, she hired a printer-an enlightened white immigrant from Savannah, Georgia,-to make up the posters and put them up all about Philadelphia, “where any eye could… Read more
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