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E. Ethelbert Miller: Interview
by Remica L. Bingham Literary artifacts grace every corner of E. Ethelbert Miller’s home and each speaks to his extensive legacy in the writing world. A copy of his memoir, Fathering Words, is the centerpiece on his living room table. Priority Mail envelopes addressed to students and filled to capacity adorn tables and chairs in…
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Suheir Hammad: Interview
I think that it’s the same woman and the homegirl never leaves you. The homegirl is your foundation. My foundation is parallel to my homelife that my parents gave me and the life that was outside of my parents’ house, my parents’ apartment in Brooklyn.
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Linton Kwesi Johnson: Interview
Inglan Is A Bitch Nancy Rawlinson finds legendary dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson has not mellowed with age. Twenty years ago, a landmark album was released in the UK. Dread Beat An’ Blood was Linton Kwesi Johnson’s debut recording, the first time his political poetry had been accompanied by the powerful beats of reggae. This…
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Thomas Sayers Ellis: Interview
by Penny Dickerson Poet, essayist, and editor, Thomas Sayers Ellis is a literary threat. Harvard educated and a Brown University graduated; noted writer Elizabeth Alexander described him as, “One of our geniuses.”
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Raquel Rivera: Interview
Raquel Rivera Reflects on the Latino Connections to the Origins of Hip Hop by Ron Kavanaugh
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Nelly Rosario: Interview
by Angeli Rasbury By the time I had read the two songs that make up Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario, I wanted another song, one that would take me back to the lyricism, history, and wonderfully developed women in the novel’s first part, Song One. Song of the Water Saints, Rosario’s debut…
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Bakari Kitwana: Interview
Bakari Kitwana The Hip-Hop Generation: African American Youth in Crisis by Thabiti Lewis
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Nikky Finney: Interview
Nikky Finney, daughter of civil rights workers, sees herself playing with the hottest, blue tongue of the flame as a witness with a pencil to the struggles of Black people and her family in the South. Documentation of these struggles represents the bulk of her poetry collection, Rice (Sister Vision Press, 1995), and also finds…
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Natasha Tarpley: Interview
September 2019, One Book One Bronx will discuss the modern classic Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion by Natasha Tarpley. Click here for details. Natasha Tarpley by Bridgette Gayle Natasha Tarpley’s memoir, Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion, takes an intimate journey through her maternal…