Spanning centuries, continents and cultures, this collection brings together the diverse and enduring heritage of black storytelling. Collected here are family stories and moral fables, ghost stories and tales rich in humor, along with raps and rhymes, memoirs and commentaries, and songs, stories and poems about freedom, protest, and the change.
This dramatic evocation of the forever poignant and courageous struggle of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is told in words, pictures, and the voices of participants, and is accompanied by two audio CDs.
The acting couple of Ossie David and Ruby Dee, who celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1998, switch off narrating this dual memoir. They recall their individual upbringings, his in the Southern U.S., hers in the North, their first meeting as co-performers on Broadway in 1945, their lives as Black entertainers in film, on stage, and on television, ...
Poet Langston Hughes visits a church basement where a drama group is rehearsing one of his plays, and uses the actors to recreate scenes from his early life.
Living for Change is a sweeping account of the life of an untraditional radical from the end of the thirties, through the cold war, the civil rights era, and the rise of Black Power, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers to the present efforts to rebuild our urban communities. This fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who ...
} Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s. Long considered the most comprehensive history ...
The ultimate gift to posterity from the incomparable actor, writer, and visionary Ossie Davis: a compilation of his stirring words that Americans will cherish for years to come.
Foner follows his development as an apolitical youth to a visionary whose pragmatism paved the way for legislation guaranteeing hospital workers the right to unionize. 32 photos.
Fourteen-year-old Isaac Stone is the Junior Assistant Pastor at his church, and the Reverend Cable is organizing a big march on Washington. Everyone in his church group is going, but Stone has to stay home because his father Ike doesn't believe in Martin Luther King's non-violence. Ever since Stone's mother died and his father came back from the ...
Former heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali will forever be known as a hero, an icon, and the Greatest. Now, listeners can understand how he kept his focus as he transformed a sport and a nation with his own spiritual philosophy. Unabridged. 5 CDs.
This play is about the parents in South Carolina who risked their lives to file the first legal challenge to segregation in public schools. Their case led to Brown v. Board of Education and the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. The book includes biographical information on Ossie Davis; photographs; accounts of the civil ...
Lorraine Hansberry wrote of Black consciousness before it was fashionable, but she bequeathed to all of us a legacy astounding in its richness and relevancy. Few writers, black or white, are more relevant to present-day America than Lorraine Hansberry. Here, for the first time, Caedmon has gathered many of her plays, interviews, and speeches into ...
From the high-profile founder and publisher of the highly successful Black Enterprise magazine comes an illuminating and inspirational guide for the aspiring African American entrepreneur".(Graves) engagingly dispenses blunt advice and sharp commentary" (New York Times) In This Timely and Important Book, Graves, One of the most influential and ...
Douglass overcame his beginnings as a slave to become the first black man to hold a diplomatic office. He was a great orator and also wrote several books. This play emphasizes his contributions.
Before the end of the play's eight month run, Reverend Purlie Victorious Judson would strike both America's funnybone & its raw nerve endings! It was a comedy that mocked segregation, but there were those black & white who didn't think that racism was a laughing matter. Now, more than thirty years later, Ossie Davis shares his personal notes on ...
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