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100 Years of Black Literature
Black Pride in Elementary School
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Black History
Actor Chadwick Boseman: Black Panther, Jackie Robinson, James
Brown , Thurgood Marshall
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Literary Icons: Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker,
Maya Angelou
Classics
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3 Generations of Black Lit: James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi
Coates
“Say Their Names” 6/22/20
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Edits “The Great Fire” Vanity Fair 9/20/20 Special
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Essays, Comic Books, Fiction
Lincoln Meets Frederick Douglass
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Marcus Garvey/ Booker T. Washington
The Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B.DuBois(John Edgar Wideman Intro.)
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The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Writers
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The Jazz Age
Langston Hughes: “I, Too”
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Richard Wright: “Native Son”
James Baldwin
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James Baldwin Great Books
Lorraine Hansberry Playwright
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Gwendolyn Brooks Poet
Gwendolyn Brooks: “We Real Cool”
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Gyendolyn Brooks
Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
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Bellow and Ellison: A Great Friendship
Post-War Jazz
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Claude Brown: “Manchild in the Promised Land”
Freedom Riders: 1962
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MLK and Mississippi Murders 1964
Malcolm X
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The Black Panthers and Angela Davis
Angela Davis: Activist and Academic
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Toni Morrison: Nobel Laureate
Toni Morrison: “The Future of African American Literature”
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Toni Morrison Edits The Black Book
Alice Walker
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Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
The Black Arts Movement
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Black Arts: Alice Walker (Poet, Novelist, and Radical Critic)
Maya Angelou: Poet and Autobiography
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“Still I Rise” : Maya Angelou
August Wilson: Playwright{
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Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle An American Century
August Wilson
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Alex Haley Popular Novelist
Rita Dove: Poet Laureate
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Walter Mosley Mystery Writer
An Easy Rawlins Mystery
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Ishmael Reed: Poet and Novelist
Jazz Art
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Ishmael Reed (Playwright and Critic)
Jamaica Kincaid: Poet and Critic
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Girl (Poem)
Jamaica Kincaid: “The Disturbances of the Garden”(New Yorker 9/7/20)
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USF Black Lit Bookshelf
Jesmyn Ward
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Edwidge Danticat
Raven Leilani
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Tiffany Yanique
Yaa Gyasi (5 under 35)
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Bryan Washington
David Wright Falade:
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Rion Amilcar Scott
Colson Whitehead
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Colson Whitehead
Time Magazine:“America’s Storyteller”
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Darryl Pinckney and Zadie Smith: Novelists and Public Intelletuals
Darryl Pinckney: High Cotton
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Darryl Pinckney “We Must Act Out Our Freedom”
(NY Review of Books 8/20/20)
Zadie, Ta-Nehisi, Jesmyn
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Zadie Smith Stories: “Escape from New York”/ “Crazy, They Call Me”
Edward P. Jones
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Edward P. Jones: Storyteller
Bell Hooks Poet
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Bell Hooks: Feminist Critic
Black Lives Matter
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Cultural Appropriation?
Black Feminists
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Empowering Women’s Lit
Tayari Jones
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“An American Marriage”
John Edgar Wideman: Storyteller, Memoirist, Essayist
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James Emanuel Long Life of a Poet and Scholar
James Emanuel Jazz Haikus
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Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and The Origins of Our Discontents
(2020)
Leon Litwack: Jim Crow South
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Cornell West: Philosopher, Social Critic (with Toni Morrison)
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornell West
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Norton Anthology of African American Literature: Ed. Henry Louis Gates
PBS: “The African Americans” Essential Documentary
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Literary Critic, Filmmaker, Scholar
Skip Gates & Carmello Anthony “Finding Your Roots”
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James McBride, Spike Lee, CarmelloAnthony:Red Hook Summer (Brooklyn)
James McBride: Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Musician
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James McBride on James Brown
James McBride: “Good Lord Bird” Jazz Ensemble
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John Coltraine—Giant Steps
James McBride “The Color of Water”(Biography of His Jewish Mother)
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“Deacon King Kong”(Fromm Showcase Novel)
Cultural Appropriation?
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William Styron “The Confessions of Nat Turner”
William Faulkner’s Black Heroine (Dilsey)
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William Faulkner on “Truth”
Bob Dylan “Only a Pawn in the Game” Mississippi, 1963 (Medgar Evers)
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Bob Dylan and The Obamas
“A More Perfect Union” Barack Obama: Race in America
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Philip Roth and The Plot (David Simon Adaptation Anticipates 2020 Dystopia)
Paul Theroux: Black and White
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E.L. Doctorow: The Progressive Voice of American Historical Fiction
E.L.Doctorow Imagines Coalhouse Walker Jr.—History Repeats Itself
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Lin Manuel Miranda: Hamilton
Richie Havens: From the Beats to Folk Music to Woodstock and Beyond
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Legacy: Richie Havens
The University of Chicago “Back in the Day” (1965-1970)
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John Hope Franklin: Historian
Albert Murray (1916-2013)
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Chicago Blues
Paul Butterfield in Hyde Park, Chicago (1966)
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Muddy, Buddy, and the Stones: Southside Chicago Blues
Buddy Guy: The Last of the Bluesmen