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Mosaic 11
09/2001 Country Grammar Poet Nikky Finney talks about her southern roots and the poetry she writes. by Tara Betts Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Assata Revisited Exiled in Cuba, Assata Shakur‘s shadow…
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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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Caribbean Women Writers by Marcia Douglas: Essay
Originally appeared in Mosaic #9, June 2000 In the late 1980s, upon learning about a forthcoming conference profiling the work of Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid asked, “Are there many of us?” The conference was the 1988 First International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers
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Mosaic 8
04/2000 The Souls of Black Folk Mosaic profiled nine writers who will make a difference in what we read for years to come: asha bandele, Brian Keith Jackson, Glenville Lovell, Shay Youngblood, Natasha Tarpley, Philippe Wamba, Joan Morgan-Murray, Farai Chideya, and Nikky Finney. asha bandele by Tara BettsFarai Chideya by Cynthia RayNikky Finney by Tara BettsBrian Keith Jackson by Damion ManningsGlenville Lovell by…
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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…
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Mosaic 7
09/1999 INTERVIEWS Breena Clarke River, Cross My Heart by Nikki TerryWillie Perdomo by Renee Michel a bona fide poet Roger Bonair-Agard by Damion Mannings a one man show Reggie Gibson by Nichole Shields random thought Kevin Powell by Cynthia Ray movin’ on up! by Camika Spencer author of When All Hell Breaks Loose first rate…
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Mosaic 6
06/1999 Ms. Private Eye These black female crime-fighters are breathing new life into the murder mystery genre. Mosaic interviewed two of the hottest crime noire novelist today. Grace Edwards by Nikki Terry Eleanor Taylor Bland by Nichole Shields The Crisis Reader An in-depth look at a collection of articles from The NAACP’s Crisis Magazine by…
