from the editor-in-chief.This may well be the best issue of BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received ever. After nearly 20 years in the business of publishing black magazines, but only in my second year since launching BIBR, I get a thrill seeing this new publication mature. It reminds me of seeing my infants become a toddlers many years ago, taking their first independent steps. This issue of BIBR took shape based on the wonderful books black authors are writing. We did our best planning, and we are proud to bring you a wide variety of features. But to our delight the nonfiction reviews took incredible "steps" all their own, and form a body of cohesive, though-provoking reading on some of the most pressing concerns for the black community of our day. The topics begin with Police Brutality Police brutality is a term used to describe the excessive use of physical force, assault, verbal attacks, and threats by police officers and other law enforcement officers. The term may also be used to apply to such behavior when used by prison officers. by Jill Nelson, as some of our best social commentators speak on this scourge. Once you read it and All Things Censored by Mumia Abu Jamal, we trust you will be moved to anger then to activism. Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Sons provides a blue-print for action on the family front. It's among the must-have parenting books for every home library. The Miracles of Mentoring by Tom Dortch, Jr. of 100 Black Men takes the issue from home and the streets to work and even to where we play. Its plan of action to mentor our young men (and women!) is the bootstrap See boot. (operating system, compiler) bootstrap - To load and initialise the operating system on a computer. Normally abbreviated to "boot". From the curious expression "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", one of the legendary feats of Baron von Munchhausen. strategy of the 21st Century. With the unfortunate demise of the nation's leading news and political journal, Emerge, we are proud at BIBR to, in our small way, keep these important issues alive in print. We also realize life is, fortunately, not all struggle. There's nothing like sitting back with a good book to make you laugh, imaging wonders, or even shed those "aha" tears of self-recognition or reflection. This issue has plenty to offer there, from the widest range of fiction authors possible, all with new work--the master, Paule Marshall Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. ; the young Brit who's taking the fiction world by storm, Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is an English novelist. To date she has written three novels, and is widely regarded as one of England's most talented young authors; in 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors. ; Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, the pair whose grapevine bestseller Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made left readers waiting for their next (and even surpasses!); Sheree Thomas' ground breaking collection of speculative (science) fiction by an incredible array of our classic contemporary writers in the genre. The last is accompanied by a feature story about Octavia Butler and newcomer to the genre of speculative fiction Mosley has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War . The piece derives from the two in dialogue before a sold-out audience at the Smithsonian in an event sponsored by BIBR. Enjoy the entire issue and give us your feedback. |
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