Articles from Black Issues Book Review (May 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
"Audie" finalists include: The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley, read by Ernie Hudson; The Soul of a Butterfly by Muhammad and Hana Ali, read by Ossie Davis and Hana Ali; and When Marian Sang by Pam Munoz Ryan (book on Marian Anderson).	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	69
2 daring artists: past and present.	Lewis, Tracey	Book Review	634
A season for stories of the past and present: choices for the young range from a civil rights lesson to a fish tale.	Rust, Suzanne	Bibliography	849
Afterburn: A Novel.	Morris, Monique W.	Book Review	286
Aim high: guides for navigating inner lives and corporate turf.	Cooper, Cecily D.	Book Review	276
All God's children: a study on African American Mormons and guides for women of the spirit challenge the heart.	Jones, Monica C.	Book Review	611
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.	Cash-Clark, Regina	Book Review	239
Andrea Levy.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	49
Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America.	Blalock, Rick	Book Review	464
BookExpo 2005: the grandest book "party" comes back to the publishing capital of the world.	Green, Robin		1898
Brainstorming for success: with the help of good coaches, an author propels a business book to mainstream best-seller status.	Khalfani, Lynnette		580
Branches of the ancestral tree: a sampler of resources for planning a gathering of relatives, researching African American roots or just basking in the rich histories of our people.	Robinson, Carolyn H.	Bibliography	1776
Catch the keynote, Ossie Davis: a mighty laborer in the field of the arts, a majestic voice for integrity has gone on ahead.	Madhubuti, Haki R.	Obituary	1406
Celebrating Black music month, June 2005.	Collins, Justin Adewale	Bibliography	945
Changing of the guard.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	74
Check it out: libraries remain important players in the book-selling market.	Osborne, Gwendolyn E.		761
Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir.	Cox, Jill L.	Book Review	246
Deal.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	284
Dear Senator: A Memoir of the Daughter by Strom Thurmond.	Dodson, Angela P.	Book Review	519
Deborah Willis, photographer, winner of the MacArthur "genius" Award and professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	56
Diane McKinney-Whetstone (Leaving Cecil Street, William Morrow, March 2004) won the 2005 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for fiction.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	56
Digging deeper.		Excerpt	961
Doctors' orders: read early: a novel literacy program enlists medical professionals and volunteer readers to start young children reading.	Rust, Suzanne		436
Dreams, promises and disappointments: Hollywood's racial past, Virginia's forgotten free enclave, Jamaica Kincaid's search for flowers and other offerings.	Dykes, Antoinette	Book Review	438
Edwidge Danticat's.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	60
Expired.	Cabell, Arphelia K.	Book Review	217
Fight my battles: gay pride month special, June 2005: books to tackle life's legal complications in the black LGBT community.	Lyons Larry D.		905
Flying off the shelves.		Bibliography	731
Gimme an O!	Simpkins, Tiffany A.	Book Review	267
In praise of Ossie.	Dodson, Angela P.	Editorial	613
Inspiration for drama: playwrights ponder the literary influences that inform their work.	Blake, Joseph P.		788
Interesting Times: Essays and Nonfiction.	Fraser, C. Gerald	Book Review	262
Is anybody out there? A closer look at the dire picture unearthed in the NEA's Reading at Risk study turns up some hopeful signs.	Dawkins, Wayne		941
Israel on the Appomattox: a Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1700s through the Civil War.	Boyd, Herb	Book Review	303
Johnny Mad Dog.	Simon, Denise	Book Review	364
Library as a legacy: start by investing in some good books about collecting African American books.	Meeks, Nia Ngina		880
Listening to the muses: Phylicia Rashad and LisaGay Hamilton reflect on how the voices of many writers spark their acting.	Hunt, Sharita		1428
Ma Dear's Old Green House written by Denise Lewis Patrick and illustrated by Sonia Lynn Sadler, published by Just Us Books, Inc., was awarded the Children's Book of the Year honor by the African American Academy of Arts and Letters.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	101
Mirrors of masculinity: defining the state of the black male has never been easy, but a few selections can offer clues as to what's on the minds of many who make an effort to do so.	Abdullah, Khalil	Bibliography	1489
Nelson Mandela: In His Own Words.	Duke, Lynne	Book Review	447
Noteworthy title.		Brief Article	155
Noteworthy titles.			126
Of logos and expos.	Cox, William E.	Editorial	549
Of race and justice: a book on a 1920s racial battle beat out stiff competition for national honor and may have helped spawn a competing award.	Dodson, Angela P.		737
Oscar's Half Birthday.		Children's Review	72
Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam.		Children's Review	62
Poets and celebrities.	Bryant, Gregory	Letter to the Editor	129
Postcolonial Melancholia.	Williams, R. Owen	Book Review	308
Remembering mama: images of mothers, good, bad, real or fictive abound in our literary tradition.	Davis, Bernadette Adams	Book Review	941
Self-published reviews.	Dykes, Antoinette	Bibliography	310
Signings & sightings.			613
Some kind of kin: complex bonds and confused racial identities emerge in histories of African American families.	Simmons, Pat L.	Book Review	230
Some people who love J. California Cooper: Doubleday essay contest awards copies of the beloved author's books.			651
Space Between the Stars: My Journey to an Open Heart.	Pride, Felicia	Book Review	325
Starting over: the retiring co-owner of Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem reflects on a life in bookselling.	Villarosa, Clara C.		1200
The AIDS crisis.	Weatherford, Carole Boston	Letter to the Editor	112
The Best-Kept Secret.	Townes, Glenn	Book Review	187
The Executioner's Game.	Henry, Tanu T.	Book Review	330
The look of BIBR.	Colvin, Tiffany L.	Letter to the Editor	88
The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott.	Hegamin, Tonya Cherie	Book Review	402
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom.		Children's Review	70
The power of the drum, and making music to a different beat.	Davis, Anthony C.	Book Review	484
The Promise: How One Woman Made Good on Her Extraordinary Pact to Send a Classroom of First Graders to College.	Dasher-Alston, Robin M.	Book Review	203
The Real Lives of Strong Black Women: Transcending Myths Reclaiming Joy.	Simon, Denise	Book Review	306
The Strong, Silent Type.	Oluonye, Mary N.	Book Review	251
The word workers: Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee shared many things, among them a reverence for seeing language breathed into life.	Johnson, Sharon D.	Cover Story	2600
Tina McElroy Ansa.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	68
To whom it may concern: memoirs of civil rights leaders, some never written, put flesh on the story of the Movement.	Beauford, Fred		1263
Tool for libraries.	Gauthier, Ronald M.	Letter to the Editor	80
Walter Mosley.	Dodson, Angela P.	Brief Article	37
West Coast kinfolk: in Los Angeles, Chris Abani and Kamau Daaood stand out as strong limbs on the family tree of literature.	Datcher, Michael		1515
Wit and wisdom: short stories by a master and novels by a variety of writers take us on odd journeys.	Fleming, Robert	Book Review	480
Word for word, bit by bit: no matter the promise, opinions are split on Google's plans to scan library books.	Anthony, Robert S.		730
You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir.	Shaw, Nicole	Book Review	238