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Alphabet Juice

Alphabet Juice by Roy Blount, Jr.

Ali G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them....
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Time's Memory by Julius Lester,

Amina, a young West African woman stolen from her village, is on a slave ship when she discovers that she...
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Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark

Alta Corral is a distinctive character in contemporary fiction--a young woman confident, even nonchalant, about her sexual conquests of other...
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Television: What's Behind What You... by Linda L Riley

From the Publisher With a spunky, fact-packed text by the longtime host of the award-winning children's program Captain Noah and His...
OFF THE RECORD: The Press, the Government, and the War over Anonymous Sources

OFF THE RECORD: The Press,... by Norman Pearlstine

Confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House’s war on the press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity...
The Story of a Marriage

The Story of a Marriage:... by Andrew Sean Greer

It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not...
Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise To Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power

Somebody Scream! Rap Music's Rise... by Marcus Reeves

For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements.
BITCHfest

BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural... by laura barcella

In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in...