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Helon Habila, Publisher? | Sunday Trust
Commonwealth and Caine Prize winning writer, Helon Habila has been in Nigeria
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Rebecca Walker: Black is Cool | Lambda Literary
Rebecca Walker: Black is Cool by L. Michael Gipson Lambda Literary “…YOU CAN NO MORE SEPARATE COOL FROM BLACKNESS THAN YOU CAN SEPARATE HULA FROM HAWAIIANS, OR YOGA FROM INDIANS, OR FRENCH CUISINE FROM THE FRENCH.”
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Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye – NYTimes.com
Americans have a curiously limited vision of France. We may be wild about Chanel sunglasses, Vuitton handbags, Champagne or Paris in the spring, but when it comes to the kinds of contemporary French culture
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The Life and Legacy of Black Queer Literature
August 8, 2012 – I attended the panel “Live to Tell: The Life and Legacy of Black Queer Literature,” which was presented by the Black Gay & Lesbian Archive Program Series at the Schomburg Center for Research into Black Culture.
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Liza Jessie Peterson: Art In America
AFRO Diaries -Art In America Posted by Alexis Caputo African-Americans continue to diarize and seek ways to use our voices for cultural and community expression.
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Shane Allison: He Remembers | Lambda Literary
Shane Allison: He Remembers by Theodore Kerr “YOU HAVE TO DECIDE HOW HONEST YOU WANT TO BE IN YOUR WRITING: IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE IT IN YOUR DIARY OR PUT IT IN A BOOK.
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Mosaic Literary Conference 2012
The Mosaic Literary Conference is an inspiring and unique grassroots conference planned, produced, and promoted in partnership with local cultural organizations and educators.
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Junot Diaz ‘This Is How You Lose Her:’ WSJ
Junot Diaz’s new book, This Is How You Lose Her, is coming out in September, but he says it feels like “selling a movie out of competition” because it’s a short-story collection and not, as most people seem to ask of him, his next novel.
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Uzodinma Iweala – The Morning News
Uzodinma Iweala by Robert Birnbaum Politics can be dangerous in some parts of Africa, but childhood can be even more risky. A conversation with Uzodinma Iweala about what’s breaking the continent apart—and what’s holding it together.