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    They Refused to be Silenced: “The Queen of Sugar Hill” and “With Love from Harlem”

    Book Review by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneThe Queen of Sugar Hill:A Novel of Hattie McDanielReShonda Tate. William Morrow,420 pages, 2024.With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel ScottReShonda Tate. William Morrow, 402 pages, 2026 For every woman who has ever felt unseen, whose brilliance was...

    Sigh… We Had So Much Hope for Eric Adams

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 27: NYC Mayor Eric Adams attends the 2025 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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    Reflections on The Cherokee Rose

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    “Songs in the Key of Life”

    Although Kevin Powell’s poetry collection, Grocery Shopping with My Mother: Poems, (Soft Skull, 2022),...

    Confronting Race in America

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    MalcolmX: Sowing the Seeds of Activism

    Book ReviewThe Dead are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XBy Les Payne and Tamara...

    “The Legacy of the Black Civil War Soldier”

    Book Review April 6, 2023 By Brenda Greene The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History...

    Supporting Independent Black Publishers and Presses

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    A Death and Abduction in Harlem

    A Death in HarlemBy Karla FC Holloway234 pp., TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press Gone Missing in...

    Reflections on a Sister-Friend

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    Dr. Brenda M. Greene on Ntozake Shange

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    The Power in Your Purse

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    They Refused to be Silenced: “The Queen of Sugar Hill” and “With Love from Harlem”

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