In their Own Words
A conversation with Derek Walcott
By Akintayo Abodunrin, Molara Wood and Dapo Olorunyomi
Wole Soyinka on how he came to write Death and the King's Horseman
By Andrew Gumbel
April 8, 2009
The Guardian
Andrew Gumbel As Wole Soyinka's blistering play about colonialism opens at the National, the Nobel laureate talks to Andrew Gumbel about suicide bombers, Churchill - and dancing, Wednesday 8 April 2009 Article history.
Toni Morrison interview: Long road to freedom
By David Robinson
November 15, 2008
The Scotsman
Malcolm Gladwell: Wise guy
November 15, 2008
The Independent
He's been called a rock star, a shaman and a stud, but the author of 'The Tipping Point' insists he's just a journalist
Black Founding Fathers: An Interview with Richard S. Newman
By David Liebers
June 30, 2008
The History News Network
Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent book, Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers (NYU Press), is a long overdue biography of Richard Allen, a prodigious figure in the formation of the black Church. He was interviewed by email.
June 30, 2008
10 Questions for Toni Morrison
Wednesday, May. 07, 2008 By Andrea Sachs
TIME
She's won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes and recently received the PEN/Borders Literary Service Award. A new collection of her nonfiction, What Moves at the Margin, is out now. Toni Morrison will now take your questions.
An Interview with NATASHA TRETHEWEY
BOOKSLUT
FEBRUARY, 2008
Poet Natasha Trethewey spoke about her 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Native Guard, on Martin Luther King Day -- perhaps fitting for someone who chronicles growing up biracial in the South with a black mom and white dad who were not allowed to get married in their own state. A portion of the book is in the voice of one of the Native Guards of the Civil War, part of a black Union regiment sent to watch Confederate prisoners at Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island off Gulfport, Mississippi.
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Turns 50 This Year
On the eve of his PEN American Center celebration, the Nigerian author sits down with the Voice.
by Carol Cooper
The Village Voice
February 19th, 2008
Minority Misperception
By Algenon L. Cash
January 29, 2008
Growing up as an African American in a low-income neighborhood and middle class family has historically implied you are a future member of the Democratic Party. For example, I spent most of my days as a child listening to widespread support for candidates such as Michael Dukakis and at every family celebration I still hear cries for the return of the Clinton Era. We are entering a new era and a growing number of African American voters’ desire conservative government. For the past several decades, the African American culture has been blinded by class warfare, enticed to believe in a liberal ideology that supports redistribution of wealth and widespread addiction to entitlements. The fundamental cracks in the governmental process and the need for good conservative leadership is greater now than when Reagan rescued our Country over 20 years ago from death gripping inflation, taxes, and broken government.
Why I Won’t Support Obama – or Hillary the White House Spouse
By Michael O'McCarthy
January 25, 2008
I am, as was said by the late great Richard Wright and of late, John Edwards, a Native Son. I grew up in the racist separate and unequal South, Georgia, Tennessee and Miami, Florida, my hometown. Like all of Dixie, Miami was segregated: There was our part of town, “nigger town,” Jews and Dagos on Miami Beach and a sprinkled arrangement of Caribbean and South Americans.
Slavery apology an empty gesture
By Herbert Ershkowitz
January 10, 2008
N.J. lacks money for a legislative program to go with its contrition.
"WHY I'VE NEVER DATED A BLACK MAN"
BY Janelle Oswald
“It’s not that I’m not attracted to black men,” says TV host Trisha Goddard ,“but I have never dated a black man before because they were not apart of my social circle.”
The Soprano
When it comes to operatic talent, measha brueggergosman muscles out the competition.
Monday, November 26, 2007
By Sergio Mims
