Highlighting the importance of Black Literature

CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE

From the Harlem Renaissance to Today

Vol. 2, No. 4, Winter 2010
$20.00 | 264 pp. | ISSN: 1091-1480 | ISBN No.: 1460926269

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Co-edited by Jennifer Nicole Bacon, “CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY THROUGH LITERATURE, From the Harlem Renaissance to Today,” offers readers genuine voices and viewpoints from the Black literary community, promoting self-esteem and addressing historical exclusion and bias.

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Featuring over 40 poets, including Rita Dove, Amiri Baraka, Tara Betts, Shonda Buchanan, David Henderson, Geoffrey Jacques, Yusef Komunyakaa, devorah major, Louis Reyes Rivera, Tony Medina, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Askia M. Toure, Quincy Troupe, and others.

Interviews with Ishmael Reed, Harryette Mullen, and Sharon Dennis Wyeth. Essays by Leah Creque-Harris, Andrew P. Jackson, Remica L. Bingham, and Thabiti Lewis. Cover Art: Danny Simmons.