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Book Review: Latorial Faison’s Nursery Rhymes in Black and Blood at the Root

To the Ones Who Bear Witness” - Latorial Faison, Blood at the Root By Dr. Brenda M. Greene Poet laureate and scholar, Dr. Latorial Faison, expands the concept of nursery rhymes, those colorful poems and songs that use repetitive rhythmic language in the passing of cultural traditions,...
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We Have Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America

Book ReviewBy Dr. Brenda M. GreeneAngela Dodson’s and Michael Day’s We Have Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America (Broadleaf, 2026) provides a compelling counternarrative on the history of enslaved, disenfranchised, and subjugated people in our nation. Through an examination...

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Daniel Black’s Don’t Cry for Me and Issac’s Song

Book Review By Dr. Brenda M. Greene “Words let you outlive yourself. They take your...
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Sasha Bonét’s The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

Book Review- Our Time Press By Dr. Brenda M. Greene “Stories Always Come Back in the...
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Book Review: The Work of James E. Cherry

Reviewed by Dr. Brenda M. GreeneBetween Chance and Mercy: PoemsEdge of the Wind: A...
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A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing

The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland A Bound Woman...
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“We Refuse to Be Silent”

Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on...
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“When We Trouble the Waters…”

"Something in the Water" by Phyllis R. Dixon - Review by Dr. Brenda M....
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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...
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Justice for Garvey

Not only did I greatly admire Garvey, but his conviction also represented one of...
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Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

What you need to know for now is that it was just like this....
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Faith, Politics, and the Illusion of Post-Racial America

Everybody talks about how he’ll change race in America. Erase it or whatever. By...
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The Power of Stories

“Families, as my suddenly silenced uncle used to say, expand like ripples in a...
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Poets Speak of Impact of War on the Youth

For Gaza’s Children: Black, Brown, and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak OutMarc Lamont Hill,...
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