Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Zora Neale Hurston. Edited by Deborah G. Plant. Foreword by Alice Walker. Amistad, 208 pp., $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Keeping your true name. Keeping your customs. Building your home. Building a community. Zora Neale Hurston of all-Black Eatonville, Fla., understood this African combination of self-respect…
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Drs. Ball, Bolden and Burroughs, “The Killer Bs,” sat down for an “impromptu radio” formatted discussion of Burroughs’ new book, Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee To Ta-Nehisi Coates and more… UPDATED HIGHLINE COLLEGE VIDEO!
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Set The World On Fire: Black Nationalist Women And The Global Struggle For Freedom. Keisha N. Blain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 264 pp., $34.95. James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek. The University Press of Kentucky, 384 pp. $30. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs ONCE…
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