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African Americans African Americans Literary collections American literature 20th century American literature African American authors American literature Indian authors American literature Women authors Boys Literary collections Folk literature, American Immigrants Literary collections Speeches, addresses, etc., American African American authorsSummary: From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MBASummary: Features an assembly of voices in music, oratory, poetry, and prose by famous African-American musicians, writers, and activists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK EVESummary: "A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century through the Depression era"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 TREContents: The presidential election of 2008 -- Our Michelle -- Reverend Wright revisited -- The United States, past and present -- Personalities -- Profiles -- Race talk -- Sports -- Rita Dove -- African American literature -- Racial identity, enslavement, and the law -- In memoriam: John Hope Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World, Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 BESWright, Richard
Contents: Lawd today! -- Uncle Tom's children -- native son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIJohnson, James Weldon
Contents: The autobiography of an ex-colored man -- Along this way -- New York Age editorials -- Selected essays -- Black Manhattan -- Selected poems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 JOHHughes, Langston
Contents: v. 1. The poems, 1921-1940 -- v. 2. The poems, 1941-1950 -- v. 3. The poems, 1951-1967 -- v. 4. The novels: Not without laughter and Tambourines to glory -- v. 5. The plays to 1942: Mulatto to The sun do move -- v. 6. Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works -- v. 8. The later Simple stories -- v. 9. Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs -- v. 10. Fight for freedom and other...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUGBrooks, Gwendolyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Third World Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BROHughes, Langston
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUGBaszile, Natalie
Summary: "In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BASCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.1 BASKennedy, Adrienne
Summary: Adrienne Kennedy has been a force on the American stage since the premiere of her groundbreaking, Obie Award-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro in 1964. Politically engaged, formally daring, and making provocative use of material from contemporary history and popular culture, Kennedy's haunting stage works dramatize and project interior realities that are often marked by disappointment and trauma,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 KENSummary: Overview: Offering insight into the arts of Great Lakes Native nations, this collection of stories, songs, poetry, speeches, autobiographies, and fiction, spans the centuries from deep past to the present. Elders, war chiefs, religious leaders, and contemporary artists share stories of the creation, stars, animals, heroes, and monsters, along with narratives of hunting, fishing, food-gathering,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ladyslipper 2011