Category : The Word – Media

Published in 1994, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray is a controversial book that...

A Beacon of Harlem Renaissance Culture The Negro American Magazine, published in San Antonio, Texas, during the 1920s, was a significant yet often overlooked publication...

A Controversial Exploration of Relationships The Blackman’s Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman by Shahrazad Ali, first published in 1989 by Civilized Publications, is a provocative...

C.L.R. James’s The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, first published in 1938, stands as a seminal work in the study of...

Sherry Carter is an American television and radio personality, celebrated for her influential role as a host on BET’s Video Soul and Video LP during...

Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (published as Someone Knows My Name in some regions) is a powerful and evocative novel that traces the life...

Lawrence Hill (born January 24, 1957, in Newmarket, Ontario) is an award-winning Canadian novelist, essayist, memoirist, and professor whose work explores themes of identity, belonging,...

A Vision of African American Identity and Empowerment In 1925, philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke published his seminal essay, “The New Negro,” as the...