'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."
Washington Square Bark and Its Dogs
Gentrification of Fort Greene
Marcy Avenue is named after William Learned Marcy (born in Southbridge, Massachusetts on December 12, 1786; died July 4, 1857), who served as U.S. Senator and Governor of New York, as well as U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State.
Marcy was a strong force in New York politics and was considered one of the leaders of the Hunkers, which was a conservative, office-seeking, and pro-slavery faction of the Democratic Party in New York.
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)
