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Magic Watery Moment in Beloved: An Unexpected Interlude in Toni Morrison's Novel

By: Kathy Hahn

The Bodwins' At Yo Service: One Family’s Decor is a Model of Disrespect

By: Kathy Hahn

Morrison Similar Characters Different: Stereotyping is the Reader’s Fatal Flaw

By: Kathy Hahn

Casualties & Warriors; Celie and Dana: African-American Females Survive in Kindred & The Color Purple

By: Kathy Hahn

Kindred Shades of Gray; Octavia Butler's Kindred: Black and White Can Not be Denied

By: Kathy Hahn

Lesbian Love in The Color Purple: Importance of Sexual Intimacy Overstated

By: Kathy Hahn

Suffering in Modern African-American Literature: Postmodern Themes and Motifs in Black Works of Fiction

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Summary of Ellison's Short Story "Battle Royal": The Opening Chapter to the Classic American Novel Invisible Man

By: Ryan Werner

Book Review of Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison: Novel May Easily be Morrison´s Masterpiece

By: Yirssi Bergman

Book Review of Their Eyes Were Watching God: Hurston´s Novel Speaks of Love And Self-realization

By: Yirssi Bergman

Book Review of Love, by Toni Morrison: Love And Hatred are the Backdrop for This Intense Novel

By: Yirssi Bergman

Jadine's Journey in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby: Fear, Self-Discovery, and Denial in Morrison’s Fourth Novel

By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman

Bestselling Author Alice Walker's Impact: A Literary Giant’s Influence on Education and Social Spectrums

By: Rhonda Campbell

The Gilded Six-Bits: A Summary of Zora Neale Hurston’s Short Story

By: Jessica Scott

Function of Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved: Sethe’s Journey from Slavery to Ostracism

By: Cynthia Jones-Shoeman

Culture and Heritage in Walker's Everyday Use: Sorority and Bond Among Quiltmakers

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Dee's Character in Everyday Use: The Prodigal Daughter

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Everyday Use by Alice Walker: Views of Culture and Heritage

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Symbols in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Mule and the Bee

By: Jill Douglass

Complexity and Morality in The Known World: William Robbins and John Skiffington in Edward P. Jones' Novel

By: Allison D. Schisler

Edward P. Jones's Literary Technique: Moral Ambiguity in The Known World

By: Allison D. Schisler

The Importance of a Name: Identity as Theme in Toni Morrison's Beloved

By: Allison D. Schisler

A Character Analysis of Sula: Considering Morrison's Main Character as the Protagonist

By: Danielle Dawkins

Sula: Not the Average Story: A Review of Toni Morrison's Second Novel

By: Danielle Dawkins

Their Eyes Were Watching God: Dialect, Flawed Characters and Plot Structure of Hurston's Novel

By: Feature Writer Megan B. Wyatt

Religion in Morrison's Paradise: The Values of the Two Communities, Ruby and the Convent

By: Alice Woolliams

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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