Category: Biography

  • Michelle Obama: A Life Knopf 2015-04-07 432 pages 6.5 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-95882-2 Peter Slevin, Associate Professor of Journalism Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois An inspiring story, richly detailed and written with élan, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times…

  • New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama Time 2015-03-30 Maya Rhodan, Reporter Author paints the First Lady as the President’s rock, notes the impact her background would have on her future as the nation’s first black First Lady During her senior year at Princeton University, First Lady Michelle Obama couldn’t imagine…

  • Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times Canisius College, Buffalo, New York 2015-03-04 Buffalo, NY – Canisius College will exhibit “Homestory Deutschland: Black Biographies in Historical and Present Times” from Tuesday, March 24 – Sunday, April 12. The exhibit will be on display in Alumni Hall, located between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library…

  • EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Obama’s mother was worried about her daughter marrying a biracial man The New York Daily News 2015-03-18 Celeste Katz Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama — because he was biracial. In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s…

  • Scholar’s debut novel ties black, Native-American history The Detroit Free Press 2015-03-22 Cassandra Spratling Tiya Miles got it honest. Straight from her grandmother’s garden. That knack for telling stories that pull at your heartstrings. “I’m one of those people who had a storytelling grandma,” says Miles. “We’d be in the garden or snapping peas on…

  • Old Glory: The Symbol of One America 1696 Heritage Group 2015-03-16 Keith Stokes, Vice President Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850 The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of antebellum Richmond, Virginia. Just as the photograph…

  • Daughter Discovers Father’s Black Lineage National Public Radio 2007-10-02 Farai Chideya, Host Famed literary critic Anatole Broyard carried a big secret most of his life. He was a black man passing as white. His daughter, Bliss Broyard, writes about how she learned of her father’s hidden life and explored her black ancestry in the memoir…

  • We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican” Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: ¿De donde…

  • San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…

  • Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist Keith Skinner: Writer: Renegade Image: Fiction, memoir, travel & essays 2014-05-25 Keith Skinner I had never heard of Grafton Tyler Brown before. I was just trying to develop a character for my historical novel-in-progress, The Relentless Harvest. The Search for a Character It all started with a desire…