Explores political, financial, social, and educational issues in relation to African Americans while providing answers to commonly asked questions by various noted speakers from the African-American community, such as Melvin van Peebles and Spike Lee.

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems

Biographies & Memoirs

Diawara, Manthia

BELL HOOKS

Spike Lee

Melvin Van Peebles

George Curry

Angela Davis

Jocelyn Elders

Taylor, Clyde

Austin, Regina

Community & Culture

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Thirteen of black America's most eloquent voices share their visions for a self-sufficient, self-determined future. From Spike Lee's encouragement of independent, community fundraising to Joycelyn Elders's warning about the failings of our "sick-care" system to Stanley Crouch's disputation on "heroic" versus "anarchic" individuality, Black Genius is an exceptional, unique colloquy. Conceived by acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley and sponsored by the New York University Africana Studies Program and the Institute of African American Affairs, this book originated as a series of community conversations where "visionaries with solutions" shared powerful views on personal and communal struggles, triumphs, and aspirations. The list of contributors suggests the range of perspectives and talents brought to bear on such issues as economics, political power, work, authority, and culture. Black Genius is a point of departure for vigorous discussion of our current realities and goals for the future-and a portrait of "genius" that leads the way to enriching American life in the twenty-first century.

Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

Literature & Fiction

United States

W.W.Norton&Company

With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or powerOne of America’s most historic political trials is undoubtedly that of Angela Davis. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Davis, and including contributions from numerous radicals such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United State. Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has seen unprecedented growth, with more of America’s black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as pertinent today as the day it was first published.Featuring contributions from George Jackson, Bettina Aptheker, Bobby Seale, James Baldwin, Ruchell Magee, Julian Bond, Huey P. Newton, Erika Huggins, Fleeta Drumgo, John Clutchette, and others.

If They Come in the Morning

Okpaku Communications Corp

Mein Herz wollte Freiheit: Eine Autobiographie

Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag

Mulheres, Raca Classe

Boitempo

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