NEWS & REVIEWS
Black is the new White: Mooney and Pryor refused to shuffle for HollywoodHollywood's attitude toward black issues and performers has been the subject of criticism from the films of Robert Townsend ("Hollywood Shuffle") and Spike Lee ("Bamboozled"), to the comedy and interviews of Dave Chappelle. Few inside observers have the laser-like analysis of veteran comedian and writer Paul Mooney, who takes us behind the cameras and into the boardrooms in his memoir "Black Is The New White." More » |
Colorado prof brings Ellison's unfinished novel to marketBOULDER, Colo. - Adam Bradley was a freshman in college and taking an African-American literature course when he first read "Invisible Man," a novel that vivified America?s racial divide. More » |
Ex-POW's new book recalls Iraq, nightmares, depressionWASHINGTON - Shoshana Johnson survived gunshot wounds to both legs and 22 days as a prisoner of war in Iraq. Life wasn't so easy when she came home, either. More » |
