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Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
April 21, 2024The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
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Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
March 12, 2024Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
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Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
February 7, 2024Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
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Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
January 4, 2024Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
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Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
December 23, 2023The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
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Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
December 16, 2023For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
December 15, 2023Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...