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Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Constructions of Masculinity in the Narrative

By: Alice Woolliams

James Baldwin: Notes of a Native Son

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Native Son: Richard Wright's Classic Novel

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Richard Wright: Blueprint for Negro Writing

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Black Women Leaders of the 1800s: 19th-century Activists, Feminists, Authors

By: Henry Berry

A Love No Less: Compiled and edited by Pamela Newkirk

By: Sharyn Skeeter

E. Ethelbert Miller: How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Poetry for Valentine's Day: Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Colleen J. McElroy: Part 2: Poet, fiction writer, editor

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Interview with Colleen J. McElroy: Poet, fiction writer, editor, memoir author

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Ronald Fair: Part 2: The movie Cornbread Earl and Me is based on Fair's novel Hog Butcher

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Interview with Ronald Fair: Prize-winning, expatriate novelist, poet, playwright and sculptor on how being a Christian influenced his work.

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Vickie Stringer: Part 2: Insider's View of Publishing

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Interview with Vickie Stringer: Dirty Red author and Hip-Hop book publisher

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Harlem Renaissance Poets: The Heart of the Literary Movement

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Dorothy West: Author of The Living Is Easy and The Wedding

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Nella Larsen: Author of Quicksand and Passing

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Claude McKay: Harlem Renaissance Poet and Novelist

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Faire Gallery/Cafe: Open Mike Readings at New Art Gallery

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Zora Neale Hurston: Harlem Renaissance author

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Langston Hughes

By: Sharyn Skeeter

Jean Toomer's Essentials

By: Sharyn Skeeter

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