'Brother, I'm Dying'
Edwidge Danticat's book tells, in a painfully personal way, the blood- and tear-laced story of the U.S. relationship with Haiti. (read)
Brenda Greene of Medgar Evers College and Fred Beauford have edited a new book that is gaining quite a bit of attention, "Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing."
Irving Place is named after Washington Irving (born in New York City, April 3, 1783; died November 28, 1859), who was an American author of the early 19th century best known for his short stories, including “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle.
Irving was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and was said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe.
Brooklyn Ron Writes of Growing Up in Bed-Stuy
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Washington Square Bark and Its Dogs
Gentrification of Fort Greene
Spike says Brooklyn, not Harlem, is the capital of Black America (read)
