Category: Media Archive

  • ‘The Firebrand and the First Lady,’ by Patricia Bell-Scott Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2016-02-19 Irin Carmon Pauli Murray, in 1946, and Eleanor Roosevelt, circa 1943. Credit Left, Bettmann/Corbis; right, Stock Montage/Getty Images Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for…

  • ‘The Black Calhouns,’ by Gail Lumet Buckley Book Review The New York Times 2016-03-16 Patricia J. Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York THE BLACK CALHOUNS From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family By Gail Lumet Buckley Illustrated. 353 pp. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In…

  • The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Atlantic Monthly Press February 2016 336 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8 Gail Lumet Buckley Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress…

  • Pao by Kerry Young – review The Guardian 2011-07-03 Ian Thomson Young, Kerry, Pao: A Novel (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) Kerry Young’s mesmerising first novel celebrates Jamaica’s ethnic melting pot, and the lost world of Kingston’s Chinatown Jamaica, where Kerry Young was born in 1955, is an island of…

  • Britain’s first black female High Court judge opens up about racism at the bar Legal Cheek London, United Kingdom 2016-03-30 Katie King, Reporter Clerks would Tippex out her name on briefs and write in the name of male pupil they wanted to be the tenant Dame Linda Dobbs has exposed shameful incidents of racism and…

  • Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-03-31 Tambay A. Obenson Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in “Little Boxes“ The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a couple of weeks, running from April 13-24 in New York City. Leading…

  • 6 Afro-Latinos Open Up About What It Means To Be Black And Latino Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-03-23 Carolina Moreno, Editor Watch them explain why they’re both and they’re proud! Too black to be Latino and too Latino to be black is a feeling many Afro-Latinos know too well — but the reality is…

  • What Does my Body Mean? Mixed Roots Stories 2016-03-30 Carly Bates Carly Bates (Photo by: Bethany Brown) As a student of jazz at my university, I often occupy white male dominated spaces. I am the only woman of color (a black/white biracial woman) in a jazz history class, “Jazz Musicians as Composers,” a course that…

  • The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde W. W. Norton & Company February 2000 512 pages 6.2 × 9.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31972-9 Audre Lorde (1934-1992) A complete collection—over 300 poems—from one of this country’s most influential poets.

  • Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ The Guardian 2016-04-02 Lanre Bakare, Deputy Arts Editor Trevor Noah photographed at the Daily Show offices. Photograph: Christopher Lane Six months ago the South African comic took on the trickiest task in comedy; replacing Jon Stewart as host of the…