Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gAINPpX14495; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:25:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:25:51 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <009701c28f59$674176c0$465cf7a5@oemcomputer> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Ann Corley" <macorley1@earthlink.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:966] November issue of ChickenBones available X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 4038 Lines: 80 The following is from Rudolph Lewis, editor of ChickenBones: ChickenBones: A Journal (www.nathanielturner.com <http://www.nathanielturner.com/> ) has completed (finally) its November update. This issue includes a massive number of new items. 1) Amin Sharif has written historically on gang violence in Baltimore and has made a challenging recommendation to the leaders of Baltimore: Use City Workers as Mentors for Black Children in the Public School System. This is our lead article. 2) We have pulled togther a number of files that deal with the historic reality of the colored, black, Negro washerwoman and her great contributions to American society by her own efforts and those of her children who have made their own marks in sports, entertainment, publishing, health care, ministry, music, philantropy, business, etc. 3) There are 37 extraodinary letters from the Archives of Martin Bruce Chistian, including letters from Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, and George Schuyler. There are also letters that deal with the intricate difficulties between estranged lovers. 4) There are a number of wonderful poems that have been added to the site. Two extraodinary poems from the pen of Louis Reyes Rivera -- "(compulsion strikes the witness)" and "(jorge's journey)." In Rivera we have a master craftsman and a creative genius. Moreover, he has a great commitment to the struggle. We also have a number of new writers we have added to the site. They include the lovely poems of Dee Freeman, the fresh poems of Latorial Faison, and still more poems from Deborah Cains, and a poem from my cousin James Goodwyn on 9/11. 5) There is also a review of a new CD by Ro Deezy. Check her out she's going places. I listened to her womanist rap and I wanted more. 6) If you are in to jazz you got to check out Temika Moore She knows how to swing. 7) We have a great number of releases from university presses: Tera Hunter's To 'Joy My Freedom (on black women workers of the South after the Civil War); a book of photographs from Julian Dimock-- Camera Man's Journey (if you want to see black and beautiful in rural South Carolina, this is the book. Check out the reviews); if you want an insider view of Katherine Dunham and her work in St. Louis, check out the reviews on Joyce Aschenbrenner's Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life; there is also Adam Gussov's Seems Like Murder Here, a scholarly work on the blues and its connection to Southern violence; check out the Introduction of After Hours, a book of male erotica, edited by Robert Fleming; Leslie Harris's In the Shadow of Slavery, is an important book on the history of blacks in New York; if you're interested in a unique view of Cuba and Miami Cubans Miguel de La Torre's Quest for the Cuban Christ is a must read. There is also Carol E. Henderson's excellent literary study Scarring the Black Body, a fall 2002 release. 8) Rhonda Miller and Chucke Siler has sent us an important book list for those who want to be up on what has happened and what's happening in black life 9) We have also added an interesting portrait of Andrew Carengie and his relationship to Tuskegee. You must check out the bio on R.R. Taylor, the first black MIT graduate. 10) And of course we have Baraka's statement "Will Not Apologize, Will Not Resign" statement and his "Somebody Blew Up America." We also have Belafonte's interview in which he calls Secretary Powell to come out of the big house into the Light. So again we have been busy concocting another feast for our readers. We hope you enjoy. It is a lot to savor. But we will be around for a while.We have just signed a three-year contract with our web provider (host). So we will be serving up our unique dishes at least until 2005. So come by as often and as frequent as you like. Take whatever you need and can carry. Invite guests. We have a plenty and for every body and every taste. As ever and always, Rudy Rudolph Lewis, Editor ChickenBones: A Journal www.nathanielturner.com <http://www.nathanielturner.com/>
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