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After the funeral, while I was downtown desperately celebrating my birthday, a Negro soldier, in the lobby of the Hotel Braddock, got into a fight with a white policeman over a Negro girl. Negro girls, white policemen, in or out of uniform, and Negro males—in or out of uniform—were part of the furniture of the lobby of the Hotel Braddock and this w
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Michael Joyce’s interests outside tennis consist mostly of big-budget movies and genre novels of the commercial paperback sort that one reads on planes. In other words, he really has no interests outside tennis.
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Then We Came to the End BY JOSHUA FERRIS
Daniel H. Pink • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
W. E. B. Du Bois
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
Eichenwald had paid Berry two thousand dollars to gain initial access to him
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
The Cry of Jazz—was based in part on an unpublished book by Bland entitled The Fruits of the Death of Jazz.
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
“The Good Lord Bird don’t run in a flock. He flies alone. You know why? He’s searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that’s taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till that thing gets tired and falls down. And the dirt from it raise
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