Category: Biography

  • Lives: A Final Message From My Mother The New York Times 2012-07-20 Josiah Howard The first note I ever wrote for my mother wasn’t very special, but she seemed to think it was. It said: “Hi Mom! Have a nice day! Love Skip!” (her nickname for me). My message was scribbled on a scrap of…

  • This book examines significant aspects of President Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father both in relation to the African American literary tradition and to the context of the relevant historical and cultural productions that inform it.

  • William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader University of Nebraska Press 2007 212 pages 9 photographs, 2 maps, figure, index, 2 appendixes Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-4327-9 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8032-2498-8 Theresa M. Schenck, Associate Professor of Life Sciences Communications and American Indian Studies University of Wisconsin, Madison This is the first full-length…

  • Honoring Robert Lee Vann The State of Things WUNC 91.5, North Carolina Public Radio 2012-07-10 Frank Stasio, Host Sarah Edwards, Co-Host Guests Marvin Jones Chowan Discovery Group Cash Michaels, Editor, Chief Reporter/Photographer and Columnist The Carolinian North Carolina native Robert Lee Vann was a pioneer of journalism during his lifetime. He served as editor of…

  • Born of a Palestinian father and a British mother, Rezak has always been intrigued by the different worlds from which his parents came. His father’s ancestors were highwaymen on the Arabian Peninsula in the eighteenth century.

  • Frantz Fanon’s reception in Brazil Penser aujourd’hui à partir de Frantz Fanon, Actes du colloque Fanon (Symposium on Frantz Fanon) Université Paris 7 February 2008 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Frantz Fanon is a central figure in cultural, post-colonial and African-American studies, whether in the United States, Africa…

  • How Obama became black The Washington Post 2011-06-14 David Maraniss He was too dark in Indonesia. A hapa child — half and half — in Hawaii. Multicultural in Los Angeles. An “Invisible Man” in New York. And finally, Barack Obama was black on the South Side of Chicago. This journey of racial self-discovery and reinvention…

  • American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama HarperCollins 2012-06-19 400 pages Trimsize: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 9780061999864; ISBN10: 0061999865 Rachel L. Swarns, Correspondent New York Times A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a…

  • Meet Your Cousin, the First Lady: A Family Story, Long Hidden The New York Times 2012-06-16 Rachel L. Swarns This article is adapted from “American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama” by Rachel L. Swarns, to be published by Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, on Tuesday. REX,…

  • Barack Obama: The Story Simon & Schuster June 2012 672 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 1439160406; ISBN-13: 9781439160404 David Maraniss From one of our preeminent journalists and modern historians comes the epic story of Barack Obama and the world that created him. In Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss has written a deeply reported generational biography teeming…