Category: Biography

  • In Memoriam: Tony Gleaton The afrolatin@ forum 2015-09-01 Tony Gleaton, among the first photographers to document Latin Americans of African descent, passed away last week. He leaves behind an impressive body of work which undoubtedly contributed to the growing Black consciousness movement throughout the Americas. Tony began his Latin American photographic journey in the southern…

  • How a Black Man From Missouri Transformed Himself Into the Indian Liberace The New Republic 2015-09-12 Liesl Bradner Photo: John Turner Before Liberace, there was Korla Pandit. He was a pianist from New Delhi, India, and dazzled national audiences in the 1950s with his unique keyboard skills and exotic compositions on the Hammond B3 organ.…

  • Three Very Rare Generations The New York Times 1992-12-13 Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Soul To Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992. By Yelena Khanga with Susan Jacoby. Illustrated. 318 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $22.95. AMONG its other consequences, the demise of the Soviet Union has…

  • Love Across the Color Line: Remembering Alan Kaplan KCET TV Burbank, California 2015-09-10 Erin Aubry Kaplan Fourteen years ago I wrote an article for Salon.com published for Valentine’s Day about how I met my husband, Alan Kaplan. I ended the article on a cautionary note: our hugely improbable, racially romantic story did not mean that…

  • The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…

  • Rewriting the History of American Sociology Northwestern University News Evanston, Illinois 2015-08-26 Hilary Hurd Anyaso, Law and Social Sciences Editor Groundbreaking book argues W.E.B. Du Bois is primary founder of modern sociology EVANSTON, Ill. — In his groundbreaking new book, Northwestern University’s Aldon Morris has done no less than rewrite the history of sociology by…

  • The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology University of California Press August 2015 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780520276352 Adobe PDF E-Book ISBN: 9780520960480 ePUB Format ISBN: 9780520960480 Aldon D. Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois In this groundbreaking book, Aldon…

  • One woman’s quest to uncover her heritage The Today Show 2007-11-12 Bliss Broyard writes about her journey to discover her hidden black roots Bliss Broyard grew up a “Wasp” in Connecticut with her mother, father and brother. For 23 years she was white, but it wasn’t until her father was on his deathbed that she…

  • Tony Gleaton: Photographing The African Story Across The Americas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-23 Karen Grigsby Bates Photographer Tony Gleaton died last Friday after struggling with a particularly aggressive cancer for 18 months. He was working, signing prints, talking to museums (several have his work in their collections,…