zookeeper
Pearl Clutcher
Posts: 3,909 
|
Post by zookeeper on Jun 4, 2020 18:47:18 GMT
I looked up The Book of Negroes last night and it is available on Amazon Prime in HD for $19.99 for the mini series.
|
|
|
|
Post by pierogi on Jun 4, 2020 19:13:53 GMT
My favorite classics:
"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X," by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, et al.
"For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf," by Ntozake Shange
"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," by Mildred D. Taylor (YA)
Dig into the work of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and the oft overlooked Anne Spencer. Langston Hughes is my favorite poet bar none.
I come from a big jazz loving family, so I might be biased, but exploring the music of Jellyroll Morton, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis (I'm just barely scraping at the genre here) is a personal window into black culture and history. There's genius and pain, but so much beauty and joy as well. Don't forget Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella.
Hope this helps.
|
|
Olan
Pearl Clutcher
Enter your message here...
Posts: 4,053
|
Post by Olan on Jun 4, 2020 19:52:03 GMT
Ijeoma Oluo is another. Also Tomi Adeyemi who wrote Children of Blood and Bones
Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper is another good read.
|
|
smginaz Suzy
Pearl Clutcher
Je suis desole.
Posts: 2,606
Jun 26, 2014 17:27:30 GMT
|
Post by smginaz Suzy on Jun 4, 2020 20:38:42 GMT
It is embarrassing but I learned about Langston Hughes via This Is Us. Oof. I guess as long as you get there, that's still something.
|
|
|
|
Post by supersoda on Jun 4, 2020 20:46:22 GMT
My favorite classics: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," by Maya Angelou "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," by Malcolm X, Alex Haley, et al. "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf," by Ntozake Shange "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," by Mildred D. Taylor (YA) Dig into the work of the Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and the oft overlooked Anne Spencer. Langston Hughes is my favorite poet bar none. I come from a big jazz loving family, so I might be biased, but exploring the music of Jellyroll Morton, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis (I'm just barely scraping at the genre here) is a personal window into black culture and history. There's genius and pain, but so much beauty and joy as well. Don't forget Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella. Hope this helps. Great suggestions for books and music. I love big, brassy jazz. A modern favorite is Trombone Shorty. |
|
|
|
Post by alsomsknit on Jun 4, 2020 21:16:24 GMT
Between the World and Me by Ta’Nehisi Coates is wonderful.
Jesmyn Ward is a fantastic writer. I highly recommend the Men We Reaped. She has also written a book that is a contemporary to James Baldwin’s: The Fire This Time, The Fire Next Time (I think his is ‘Next’ & her’s is ‘This’.). Baldwin’s book is quite good.
I have a couple of Henry Louis Gates Jr. books in the to be read pile, too.
|
|
Olan
Pearl Clutcher
Enter your message here...
Posts: 4,053
|
Post by Olan on Jun 8, 2020 1:47:20 GMT
Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington
On My Mama’s Knee by April Ryan
|
|
