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- Robin Blaser: ‘The Holy Forest’ // 2008
- The Essential Chomsky – Noam Chomsky (2008)
- The Complete Robot – Isaac Asimov (1982)
- Editing pan-Africanism
- Completely Well – B. B. King (1969)
- Frank Stella
- Without Marx or Jesus: the New American Revolution Has Begun. – Jean-François Revel (1972)
- Baseball And Writing By Marianne Moore
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Category Archives: Malcolm X
Archie Shepp – Fire Music (1965)
“.. Fire Music must be one of Shepp’s most interesting albums, blistering and intense, a half-way house between Free and the Avant Garde. The musical territory ranges from the haunting recitation and requiem for Malcolm X (quick history lesson here, it is … Continue reading
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties – Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (2020)
“Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is a book by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener about Los Angeles in the 1960s. The authors combine archival research and personal interviews with their own experiences in the civil rights … Continue reading
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Nat Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017)
Nat Hentoff with the clarinetist Edmond Hall in 1948 at the Savoy, a club in Boston. “Nat Hentoff, an author, journalist, jazz critic and civil libertarian who called himself a troublemaker and proved it with a shelf of books and … Continue reading
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Searching for Kemet: Malcolm X in Egypt
“We all know the name Malcolm X, but few of us have heard of Malik El-Shabazz, the name the civil rights activist adopted after his conversion to Islam and under which he journeyed to Cairo in the early 1960s. As … Continue reading
Robert Penn Warren – Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965)
“In 1965, Random House published Robert Penn Warren’s book titled Who Speaks for the Negro? In preparation for writing the volume, Warren traveled throughout the United States in early 1964 and spoke with large numbers of men and women who … Continue reading
Posted in Black Power, Books, Civil Rights Mov., Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Free Speech Mov., Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, Jesse Jackson, Malcolm X, MLKJr., Religion
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Regina King – One Night in Miami … (2020) Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke
“Regina King’s feature-film directorial debut, One Night in Miami . . . (2020), persuasively envisions an astonishing true-life convergence of Black heroes at a portentous mid-twentieth-century juncture in American life. In doing so, the movie brings forth its own array of astonishments, not the … Continue reading
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Unpublished Black History
The Harlem of Don Hogan Charles “… Hundreds of stunning images from black history, drawn from old negatives, have long been buried in the musty envelopes and crowded bins of the New York Times archives. None of them was published … Continue reading
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The Trials of Muhammad Ali – Bill Siegel (2013)
“Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, was not the only American to refuse to serve during the Vietnam War, but he was, by some measures, the most famous, the loudest and the baddest. Tracing the road to Mr. Ali’s act of … Continue reading
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What Was J. Edgar Hoover Biggest Secret that Could Have Destroyed Him?
“John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of … Continue reading
Posted in Black Power, Civil Rights Mov., John Kennedy, Lyn. Johnson, Malcolm X, MLKJr., Rob. Kennedy, Sports, The Beatles, Vietnam War
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An introduction to the revolutionary black poets of the ’60s and ’70s
The Black Voices – On The Street In Watts (1969) “In the struggle for racial equality in the US, the mid 1960s were a turning point. The civil rights era, 1955 – 65, had produced legislation against segregation, but everyday … Continue reading
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