Articles from Black Issues Book Review (September 1, 2003)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
"Reading Rainbow" needs pot of gold.		Brief Article	186
A "mother" of the movement gets her due; Ella Baker's behind-the-scenes work in organizing a vast army of civil rights activists takes center stage.	Threadcraft, Shatema	Book Review	1632
A season for the strange: tales of mystery tantalize the spirit and the intellect, staging Sowa's stories.	Blake, Joseph P.	Book Review	954
Aaron McGruder's greatest hits: the creator of the popular four-year-old syndicated strip "The Boondocks" pulls no punches as he expands his franchise to books and films.	Bates, Karen Grigsby	Book Review	2344
Acting out: Christian novelist finds her audience through drama.	Murray, Victoria Christopher	Brief Article	195
Amistad sails on.		Brief Article	226
Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City.	Rhodes-Pitts, Sharifa	Book Review	394
Banned somewhere in the U.S.A.: many African American classics are consigned to another insidious "black list".	Reynolds, Clarence V.		808
Baraka plans to sue NJ.		Brief Article	208
Beverly Lowry's speculative "nonfiction": the white author of a new Madam Walker biography is lauded by the mainstream as if Walker's award-winning black chroniclers never existed. But Lowry also acknowledges mistakes in her Walker text to BIBR and vows to fix some of them in the paperback edition.	Dawkins, Wayne	Book Review	1489
BIBR spotlight: saluting an innovative dramatist: ahead of her time, playwright Adrienne Kennedy paved the way for Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe and the rest.	Mickelbury, Penny		1093
Black President: the Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.	Rust, Suzanne	Book Review	160
Book 'em! Superior Court Judge sentences juvenile offenders to hard literary labor.	Muse, Daphne		1086
Breaking Away.	Morris, Monique W.	Book Review	93
Calabash's literary beach party: rain couldn't dampen the spirits of international literary fans in Treasure Beach, Jamaica.	Gipson, Michelle R.		475
Calling letter writers.			64
Celebrating a radio legend.			112
Cover Girls.	Hendricks, Obery M., Jr.	Book Review	174
Dr. Ronn Elmore.			70
Ethiopian Passages: Contemporary Art From the Diaspora.	Sturgis, Ingrid	Book Review	659
Faith of Our Fathers: an Examination of the Spiritual Life of African and African-American People.	Sanders, Alvelyn J.	Book Review	260
Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway.	Venable, Malcolm	Book Review	334
Flavor as artifact: Jessica Harris: stirring up pots of history.	Lamb, Yanick Rice	Book Review	1161
Flying off the shelves.			771
From the editor-in-chief.	Cox, William E.	Editorial	591
Get real and get rich: a critic's take on books for African Americans on how to foster success, make money and hold on to it.	Mason-Draffen, Carrie		1431
Harlem Lost and Found: an Architectural and Social History, 1765-1915.	Davis, Earl	Book Review	398
Healing mother Africa: contemporary African poets explore new rhythms and themes.	Okoro, Dike	Book Review	1731
Henry Dumas's Soular System: thirty-five years after Dumas's tragic death, a friend remembers the man and the writer behind the cult figure.	Redmond, Eugene		942
High-tech literary coaches: get past that writer's block with a little help from your cyberfriends.	Estrada, Sheryl		634
Hillary's home in Harlem.			150
Hitting the mark: leading-edge books that suggest what we must do to close the academic gap.	Irish, Erika Morgan	Book Review	1100
How baseball changed race relations.	Rust, Art, Jr.	Book Review	1008
Hunting in Harlem.	Townes, Glenn	Book Review	125
I Never Walked Alone: the Autobiography of an American Singer.	Carter, Zakia Munirah	Book Review	404
Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce.	Carter, Zakia M.	Book Review	284
Keeping it in the family: Ohio couple's decision to educate their three sons at home pays off with entry to the Ivy League.	Hunt, Sharita	Book Review	1767
Kings Crossing Publishing of Atlanta adds.			73
Langhorn and Mary: a 19th Century American Love Story.	Sarden, Claudia	Book Review	132
Marlene Connor, an agent who left New York City to work in Minnesota, is looking for suspense, thrillers and literary fiction.		Brief Article	95
Memoir on DVD, too.	Blue, Carroll Parrot	Letter to the Editor	467
Midnight Lightning: Jimi Hendrix and the Black Experience.	Venable, Malcolm	Book Review	352
Mojo: Conjure Stories.	Carroll, Denolyn	Book Review	175
Monique Patterson, an editor at St. Martin's Press, gives a November publication date for Rocking Around That Christmas Tree by Francis Ray and Donna Hill.			56
Muhammad.	Jones, Stephanie L.		112
No Crystal Stair.	Osborne, Gwendolyn	Book Review	150
October is the publication date of Death of Innocence (Random House, $24.95, ISBN 1-400-06117-2), a powerful memoir by Emmett Till's late mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, and Christopher Benson of Ebony.			70
Oprah's classic pick.			131
Our readers up close.	Dodson, Angela P.	Editorial	508
Plagiarism playing by the rules: in the academic world, in music and even in church, what constitutes plagiarism is under new scrutiny after journalism's wake-up call.	Fulwood, Sam, III		1705
Proverbs for the People.	Allen, Donia Elizabeth	Book Review	138
Purple Hibiscus.	Venable, Malcolm	Book Review	214
Signings & sightings.			885
Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry.	Rust, Suzanne	Book Review	323
Teacher's act: library book club provides continuing education credits for teachers.	Houser, Pat		668
Teacher's choice: English instructors include black images and themes in the lists they assign.	Rust, Suzanne		691
Teacher's recommended reading.			266
Tech-know.		Brief Article	129
The Art of Romanre Bearden.	Ray, Donna Thompson	Book Review	401
The Battle of Jericho.	Jones, Suzanne Y.		160
The Best of Emerge Magazine.	Dawkins, Wayne	Book Review	486
The Dream Bearer.		Book Review	202
The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations From Two Great Southern Cooks.	Johnson, Melissa Ewey	Book Review	357
The Good House.	Simmons, Judy D.	Book Review	231
The Minutes, The Moments, The Hours, Jill Scott's collection of poetry (her original axe), prompted spirited bidding at auction.			68
The trials and triumphs of American literature.	Fleming, Robert		2385
Third world press upcoming events.			260
This property is not condemned: Bebe Moore Campbell introduces BIBR readers to prize-winning Author Valerie Martin in a cross-racial dialogue on the challenges of writing novels about race and social change.	McHenry, Susan	Book Review	5242
Those Who Walk in Darkness.	Townes, Glenn	Book Review	139
True Vine: a Young Black Man's Journey of Faith, Hope and Charity.	Granberry, Anthony	Book Review	214
We Won't Budge: an African Exile in the World.	Henry, Tanu T.	Book Review	400
Web innovator responds.	Iverem, Esther	Letter to the Editor	143
Wendy's Got the Heat.	Backer, Kym Allison	Book Review	135
Writing out loud: Novelist E. Lynn Harris's searing memoir of his life as a gay black male climbs the best-seller lists.	Stephen, Curtis	Book Review	967