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| Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 |
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| A saint on death row : the story of Dominique Green |
| Cahill, Thomas. |
| I read it last evening, slept with it beside me, woke up this morning looking at this small book and its cover, and began thinking about the impact Dominique Green's life will have on me and on the many people who will read it. I believe it will be passed on person to person and he will touch our lives in the same way that he did to his fellow inmates, friends, the author, his supporters, and others including Desmont Tutu. When you've finished reading this, follow up with "Man's Search for Meaning"
by Viktor Frankl. (This title is also available as a soundrecording) |
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| Ironweed : a novel |
| Kennedy, William, 1928- |
| Francis Phelan's ghost are still hanging with me after 25 years. This book is written in black, grey, and white. |
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| Pleasure dome : new and collected poems |
| Komunyakaa, Yusef |
| A Louisiana native who changed his name, James Willie Brown, Jr.,to that of his great grandparents from Trinidad, writes poems of war, sex, and race, of blacks living in the white world in the South. He served in Vietnam as a correspondent for the "Southern Cross." Read "After Summer Fell Apart" He writes of "two boats moored/ Rocking between nowhere/ & nowhere" (he and his lover) |
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| The fence : a police cover-up along Boston's racial divide |
| Lehr, Dick. |
| A Black cop, is mistaken for a suspect, beaten, kicked, hit, and left on the ground. The police "blue wall of silence" begins within minutes of the police arriving at a fence which marked the end of a 15 minute chase. The reason for Mike Cox's injuries began to spread from cop to cop: hit his head on the ice." The real reason of course is that being a black man at the scene of a crime, he runs the risk of being mistaken for a criminal. It just so happened that his fellow officers committed the crime of beating him to a pulp, and no one stepping forward to call for help. This is the true story of the cover up by the Boston City Police Department written by Dick Lehr, journalist, professor, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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| Sula |
| Morrison, Toni |
| This novel begs to be listened to on cassette or CD. Toni Morrison's luxurious voice as she narrates, and her portrayal of several characters is the ultimate dramatization of an author and her work. This is the first work of fiction on CD that I've been able to finish: either I didn't like the reader's voice quality or the pacing of the reading. |
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| Beloved |
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| Beloved [audio cassette] |
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| After you've finished listening to Toni Morrison's "Sula" listen to "Beloved." You will know her love for her characters in her voice as she read this masterpiece. |
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| Ruins |
| Obejas, Achy, 1956- |
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| A death in Texas : a story of race, murder, and a small town's struggle for rede |
| Temple-Raston, Dina |
| Written by the NPR correspondent, it is first a story of how, in the aftermath of the most brutal hate-crime imaginable in modern times--that of the dragging of James Byrd, Jr., chained and pulled behind a truck--the whites of a small segregated town are forced to examine the racism of its past and present.
Horrific and sad. |
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