Recently celebrating his 60th anniversary in radio, Hal Jackson is one of the key figures in modern broadcasting. In this compelling self-portrait, Jackson details his historic rise as one of the pioneers of modern radio, setting new standards and breaking racial boundaries at every turn.From his efforts to establish the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, to his founding of the Hal Jackson Talented Teens International scholarship for young African-American women, to launching Ahmet Ertegun's career, Jackson single-handedly changed broadcasting -- and American society -- forever.

The House That Jack Built: My Life As a Trailblazer in Broadcasting and Entertainment

Biographies & Memoirs

Haskins, James

Jackson, Hal

Community & Culture

Amistad Pr

Expanding on the author's popular Website, this entertaining, irreverent, and insightful guide to film and video offers more than three hundred reviews of movies of all kinds. Original.

3 Black Chicks Review Flicks: A Film and Video Guide with Flava!

Arts & Photography

COOPER, ROSE

Henry, Cassandra

Larsuel-Ulbricht, Kamal

History & Criticism

Pitching in for Eubie

Lily knows that nothing is more important than family. She's so proud when her sister, Eubie, wins a college scholarship. And when her family pulls together to earn the rest of the money Eubie needs, Lily wants to help out too. But she's too young to do most jobs. What can she do to pitch in for Eubie? 
Through her lyrical prose, Jerdine Nolen shares a heartfelt story about people working together to make dreams come true. And as Caldecott Honor artist E. B. Lewis reminds us in his luminous, tender paintings, nothing is more important than those family ties that bind us.

Children's Books

Nolen, Jerdine

Growing Up & Facts of Life

African Beginnings

The first title of a series presents the history of Africa's rich cultural empires from the early part of the millennium through the time of Christopher Columbus. Reprint.

Benson, Kathleen

History

Freedom's A-Callin' Me

SHANGE, Ntozake

Teen & Young Adult

Burn My Heart

Naidoo, Beverley

Literature & Fiction

Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall

Long, Michael G.

The renowned and much-publicized pro basketball star relates his rise to success, his fall due to drugs and his rise again to claim his legacy to the future

Spencer Haywood: The Rise, the Fall, the Recovery

Ostler, Scott

Haywood, Spencer

"Nouvelle Soul begins where labels of race, gender, and status end, where lives undress in intimate moments of unexpected challenge," writes Barbara Summers. Chosen to launch Amistad's fiction series introducing talented new African-American writers, Nouvelle Soul is a graceful and sophisticated collection sure to become part of enduring contemporary literature. Its twenty-four stories, as different in style as they are in subject, introduce a diverse range of characters and personalities - real people in settings sensitively drawn to reflect realities we often overlook - and provide new perspectives on scenes we think familiar. Barbara Summers depicts men and women confronted with the varying demands of everyday life, lovers finding and losing each other, pioneers challenging the status quo. She seats us on a park bench next to three young children sharing a fried chicken lunch with Billie Holiday ("A Bite to Eat"). She turns the tables on a narcissistic young Black professional for whom women seem at best a form of entertainment ("Maneuvers"). She takes us on vacation with three young married women reveling in the freedom of one night out by themselves ("Boqueron"). She obliges us to consider the homeless street person we would otherwise prefer not to see ("Me and Superman"). Summers brings us face-to-face with life in all its dimensions - open and secret, conventional and unconventional - and artfully reminds us that such distinctions are rarely as obvious as they at first appear. A twenty-fifth wedding anniversary celebrated in Paris can give cause for mourning ("Panach'"). The funeral for a much loved family man can call into question his devotion to family ("A Good Man"). A life of adventure can draw to an altogether prosaic close ("Tony the Tiger"). Writing with a sure, deft touch, Summers addresses the wider human condition chronicling the richness of African-American life and culture. She both prompts us to laughter and brings us to tears. She acknowledges disillusionment and defeat as well as everyday triumphs. She demonstrates the power of love and its limitations. Whether read from beginning to end or sampled one piece at a time like a box of fine chocolates. Nouvelle Soul will engage your heart and challenge your preconceptions. This debut collection is truly a cause for celebration among all readers.

Nouvelle Soul: Short Stories

Summers, Barbara

United States

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete, 1610-1918 (Vol 1) covers the period from 1619, when Africans were first brought to these shores as slaves, to 1918, the end of the First World War. From 1865 through 1896, African Americans succeeded spectacularly in sports. It was this period that gave rise to Jack Johnson, the first Black heavy weight champion; Marshall Taylor, "the world's fastest cyclist"; and Isaac Murphy, the first three-time winner of the Kentucky Derby.

A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete 1619-1918

Sports & Outdoors

Ashe, Arthur

Miscellaneous

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