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Lisa Delpit contends that recent public education reform efforts, from No Child Left Behind to the proliferation of charter schools, have failed to assist African-American students and addre…

Toure explores what it means to be African-American in the United States today. For his book the author spoke with over 100 African Americans from Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Ch…

Editors and contributors presented a collection of fifty-two womens' recollections of the Civil Rights movement and their time spent working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee…

The authors examined the enthusiasm of blacks for achieving a post racial America in the era of Barack Obama - and the progress toward that goal at the end of his first year in office. The …

Peggy Brooks-Bertram and Barbara Nevergold talked about the book they edited, Go, Tell Michelle: African-American Women Write to the New First Lady (State University of New York Press, Janua…

Patricia Hill Collins talked about her book Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities (Beacon Press; May 1, 2009). Professor Collins posits that…

Alice Walker talked about We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness (New Press), her book of essays about progressive politics and spirtuality, as well as h…

Representative Barbara Lee of California celebrated the publication of her new book, Renegade for Peace and Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks for Me, published by Rowman and Littlefi…