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Details: Written by Kam Williams; Published: 22 January 2014

Don Cornelius was a class act… a strong black man with dignity and character and integrity... “Love! Peace! And Soooooouuuuuul!” I loved to hear him say that…

Details: Written by Kam Williams; Published: 06 January 2014

Kam reviews the children's book “Jack Strong Takes a Stand” by Tommy Greenwald

Details: Written by Kam Williams; Published: 10 December 2013

Kam Williams Reviews (1)ne Drop:Shifting the Lens on Race. Edited by Yaba Blay, Ph.D. with photography by Noelle Theard

Details: Written by Helen Silvis; Published: 21 November 2013

James McBride's The Good Lord Bird,” the comic and terrifying adventures of a disguised black child caught up in John Brown's abolitionist crusade, was the winner Wednesday night of the National Book Award for fiction.

Details: Written by Kam Williams; Published: 15 November 2013

Book: No Place for Race: Why We Need to Address Economic and Social Factors That Are Crushing Us Every Day

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 05 November 2013

How to Make Breakthrough Impacts That Take You Forward

We can't all earn MBAs and law doctorates, or work with actor Hill Harper –but we can learn from someone who's been there and done that. In The Laws of the New Game Changers, Raye Mitchell shares what she's learned in her 30-year career in business, law and the entertainment industry.

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Details: Written by Bruce Poinsette of The Skanner News; Published: 31 October 2013

Renowned activist, educator and spoken word artist releases her first full length poetry book

Walidah Imarisha envisioned a full length poetry book, "Scars/Stars", over a decade ago. Since then, she has been all across the country, doing justice work, documenting her experiences.

Details: Written by Kam Williams Special To The Skanner News; Published: 17 October 2013

Harlem has been a predominantly African-American neighborhood since the dawn of the 20th Century, when the mass migration by descendants of slaves from the rural South flooded many a metropolis above the Mason-Dixon Line. By the Twenties, this section of Manhattan had blossomed into an artistic mecca and home to many black intellectuals, writers, painters, musicians and dancers.

Details: Written by Lisa Loving The Skanner News; Published: 08 October 2013

Her story unfolds in a narrative that slowly circles, then in the end plunges to the heart of her life's realization

Ward has pulled herself up from the devastated mud bays of the Mississippi Gulf Coast to make her mark on New York City's pampered literary elite by telling the stories of real people, really impacted by the crash of nature, race and class.

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 20 September 2013

Harlem Nocturne by Farah Jasmine Griffin

In Harlem Nocturne, Farah Jasmine Griffin tells the stories of three black female artists whose creative and political efforts fueled the American movement for civil rights: choreographer and dancer Pearl Primus, composer and pianist Mary Lou Williams, and novelist Ann Petry.

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