Articles from Black Issues Book Review (March 1, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"American Dream" classics for kids: the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Awards, now celebrating its 35th year, set a standard for African American literature for children.	Atkins, Elizabeth		1241
300 years of black art.	Dodson, Angela P.	Book Review	230
35 years as a literary maverick: Clarence Major is revered and respected for his literary achievements. He's just not as widely known as he should be.	Fleming, Robert		2644
A child's garden of verses: four titles that introduce young readers to poetry's vitality.		Book Review	643
A Distant Shore.	Carroll, Denolyn	Book Review	248
A door closes: Baltimore's Sibanye welcomed black authors.	Royster-Hemby, Christina	Brief Article	209
A thug-life coda: Tupac tells his own story through posthumous personal scrapbook.	Venable, Malcolm	Book Review	281
A traveling female spirit: Nalo Hopkinson takes her inspiration from the magic of the Caribbean and the strength of women.	Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi		1134
A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak.	Fraser, C. Gerald	Book Review	475
Addicted to Hurry: Spiritual Strategies for Slowing Down.	Chavous, Kathi R.	Book Review	110
African adobe.	Reynolds, Clarence V.	Book Review	118
All Night, All Day: a Child's First Book of African-American Spirituals.	Rust, Suzanne	Book Review	89
Almost famous: an original Broadway Def Poetry Jam cast member learns that the trick is to survive after the stage lights go down.	Chin, Staceyann		1952
As We Lay.	Whitley, Robin	Book Review	85
Back in the Day: My Life and Times With Tupac Shakur.		Book Review	75
Bark and Tim: a True Story of Friendship.	Rust, Suzanne	Book Review	132
Beauty, Her Basket.	Dolland, Erica	Book Review	69
Betty Shabazz: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Faith Before and After Malcolm X.	Simon, Denise	Book Review	302
Beyond the village: how black children widen their sense of the world through reading other voices from the global spectrum.	Muse, Daphne	Column	1282
Bibr recommends.			204
BIBR's Sixth Annual Poetry Issue.	Cox, William E.	Editorial	527
Black Swan.	Harris, Duriel E.	Book Review	195
Blue Beat Syncopation Selected Poems, 1977-2002.	Moor, Indigo	Book Review	252
Chances Are Few.	Jones, Patricia Spears	Book Review	162
Collector's delight ...		Brief Article	57
Conjuring the Dead.	Bass, Holly	Book Review	210
Dancing the Ring Shout!	Abron, Carolyn Edgar	Book Review	89
Double vision.	Reynolds, Clarence V.	Book Review	284
Drag.	Jones, Patricia Spears	Book Review	297
Eden, Ohio.	Morris, Monique W.	Book Review	219
Erica Kennedy.		Brief Article	80
Flying off the shelves.			728
Following the paths of pioneers.	Velasco, Lynnette C.	Brief Article	271
Freedom Land.	Lyons, Douglas C.	Book Review	438
Go to the Ant: Life's Lessons Demonstrated by God's Smallest Creatures.	Stanley, Beatrice Perry	Book Review	191
Home time and island time: novelist Pearl Cleage finds inspiration just outside her window in Southwest Atlanta, while Paule Marshall has twice drawn on a long ago trip to Grenada.	Glenn, Gwendolyn		1793
If we ruled the world ...	Johnson, Kalyn	Book Review	373
Inner-Course: a Plea for Real Love.	Diggs, Latasha N. Nevada	Book Review	107
Internet leverages publishing success.		Brief Article	79
Jim & Louella's Homemade Heart-Fix Remedy.	Oluonye, Mary N.	Book Review	306
K'wan.			50
Kalisha Buckhanon's first novel Upstate, sold to Monique Patterson at St. Martin's, in a deal in the mid-six figures for two books by Tracy Sherrod at The Tracy Sherrod Literary Agency.		Brief Article	80
Kinks and all: books on the pleasures and challenges of black hair mix practical tips and humor.	Rust, Suzanne	Book Review	631
Letters to the editor.		Letter to the Editor	488
Looking for Red.	Dolland, Erica	Book Review	52
Meet BIBR's regional editors.			592
Milestones.		Brief Article	82
Nikki Turner.		Brief Article	65
Nina stories: recalling Nina Simone (1933-2003), the complex artist who wrote and sang the soundtrack of the Civil Rights Movement.	Adams, Janus		929
Old-school basketball: biographies of an exemplary guard and a masterful college coach.	Lindsey, Fred	Book Review	512
On Broadway and on tour.		Brief Article	108
One Girl Babylon.	Bass, Holly	Book Review	290
Other titles of interest ...		Book Review	214
Paths to wellness: some other BIBR selections.		Book Review	305
Poetry From the Masters: the Pioneers.	LaMon, Jacqueline Jones	Book Review	202
Remembering Margaret Walker: Louisville Kentucky reading group pays homage to a late, great author with televised book discussions.	Houser, Pat		716
Rendezvous Eighteenth.	Johnson, Melissa Ewey	Book Review	347
Rip It Up: the Black Experience in Rock and Roll.		Book Review	57
Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway ... and More.	Lightfoot, Toni Asante	Book Review	357
Said the Shotgun to the Head.	Thornhill, Samantha	Book Review	231
Sex Life.	Fleming, Robert	Book Review	269
Shrine to history.	Dodson, Angela P.		276
Sibling rivalries: literary poetry versus spoken word: why does the divide exist and what does it mean?	Lansana, Quraysh Ali	Cover Story	3568
Signings & sightings.		Calendar	537
Signs of my blackness.			16
Slam or be slammed: emerging poets are finding more places to practice their craft and compete against the best of the best.	Betts, Tara		1355
Stormy Blues.	Etienne, Phebus	Book Review	139
Television.	Obadike, Mendi Lewis	Brief Article	201
The Activist.	Keene, John	Book Review	87
The African American children's book festival.	Rust, Suzanne	Brief Article	197
The Africans who settled Manhattan: new studies tell the stories of the ancestors, slave and free, who labored to create New York.	Dodson, Angela P.	Bibliography	911
The Body's Question.	Pardlo, Gregory	Book Review	206
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni 1969-1998.	Keambiroiro, Jadi	Book Review	209
The e-book revolution still to come: your superstore may not sell them anymore, but retail e-book sales broke the one million units mark for the first time in 2003.	Anthony, Robert S.		488
The great white fathers' failings: thoughtful new works by white authors sift through the conflicted views of Washington and Jefferson as Founding Fathers who were slave owners in the "land of the free".	Stewart, Pearl	Book Review	1110
The love scene: women's fiction vs. classic romance.	Harris, Monica		452
The relentless pursuit of joy and purpose: Dr. Renita J. Weems's newest book explores the important lessons in the Song of Solomon.	Stanley, Kathryn V.	Book Review	987
The Viaduct.	Abdullah, Khalil	Book Review	293
The word/the blues. A meditation. Investigating blues poetry, an old tradition.	Jess, Tyehimba		2234
The writers' conference circuit: summer retreats and workshops are designed to help writers cross the finish line.	Murray, Victoria Christopher	Calendar	503
They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems.	Forbes, Calvin	Book Review	332
Too Much of a Good Thing.	Townes, Glenn	Book Review	229
We need our poets.	Dodson, Angela P.	Editorial	464
When the camera lies.	McNatt, Glenn	Book Review	701
Why Sleeping Dogs Lie.	Wilson, Joycelyn A.	Book Review	268
Would I Lie to You? The Journey of Venus Johnston.	Morris, Monique W.	Book Review	168
Year of No Rain.	Abron, Carolyn Edgar	Book Review	68
Yesterday I Had the Blues.	Davis, Earl	Book Review	61