"You Have Cancer."



You Have Cancer reveals how four best friends who grew up in the same neighborhood and went to the same schools and the same Church suffered from the same dreaded disease at the same time. According to the National Cancer Institute, African-American males have the highest overall cancer incidence and death rates. By focusing on and calling attention to a disease that is a major killer of African-American males, we hope to make them aware of early cancer signs and to encourage them to make regular doctors visits. We share our personal stories to uplift and inspire cancer patients and their caregivers and to show them coping and survival techniques. We also inform them of resources available. We show them the power of prayer in their healing processes.

You Have Cancer presents the poignant and often over--whelming experiences of real people. It shows how the lives of these men were suddenly and dramatically changed by one sentence, “You have cancer,” and the fear, anxiety, anger, sorrow, and depression it caused in them and their families and friends.

A very nice idea for a book...

ASK ME NOW: Conversations on Jazz and Literature



Ask Me Now explores the relationship between the language of music and the music of language with 20 conversations on jazz and literature. Writer, editor, and saxophonist Sascha Feinstein gathers a variety of artists, poets, musicians, fiction writers, essayists, playwrights, and record producers for discussions on the elusive but engaging relationships between jazz and literature.

Featured artists include central figures of the Black Arts Movement such as Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Haki R. Madhubuti, and Sonia Sanchez as well as distinguished music critics Gary Giddins, Dan Morgenstern, and Eugene B. Redmond. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, outstanding jazz musicians Bill Crow and Fred Hersch, and several writers who cross literary genres: Hayden Carruth, Cornelius Eady, David Jauss, William Matthews, Lee Meitzen Grue, John Sinclair, and Al Young all contribute their thoughts to the book.

Frederick Douglass Book Prize Submissions for 2008

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announces the tenth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English in 2007 on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. Publishers and authors are invited to submit books that meet these criteria.

We are interested in all geographical areas and time periods. Please note, however, that works related to the Civil War are acceptable only if their primary focus relates to slavery or emancipation. The submission deadline is March 31, 2008.

For information on submitting books or on other Gilder Lehrman Center programs, e-mail us at gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu.

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Yale University
PO Box 208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206
Phone: 203-432-3339
Fax: 203-432-6943

Email: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
Visit the website at http://www.yale.edu/glc

New book release and related event....

EVENT:

Author Meets Critics: A Panel Discussion of Charles Lane's new book, "The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction."

Location: District of Columbia, United States
Lecture Date: 2008-03-18
Please join us for a panel discussion of Charles Lane's new book "The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction."

Panelists will include:
Michael Les Benedict (Ohio State University)
Robert Goldman (Virginia Union University)
Mark Graber (University of Maryland School of Law)

When and Where:
Tuesday, March 18
4:00 pm
Faculty Conference Center, GWU Law School

Refreshments will be served.

Information on this and other events may be found on our website (http://docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/).
Maeve Devoy
Deputy Director
Institute for Constitutional Studies
The George Washington University Law School
2000 H St. NW
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-2448
Email: icsgw@law.gwu.edu
Visit the website at http://docs.law.gwu.edu/ics/

BOOK:

The Day Freedom Died : The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction by Charles Lane
Henry Holt & Company , Mar 2008, Published in USA.

The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town's ex-slaves and a white lawyer's historic battle to bring the perpretators to justice Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse.

With skill and tenacity, "The Washington Post"'s Charles Lane transforms this nearly forgotten incident into a riveting historical saga. Seeking justice for the slain, one brave U.S. attorney, James Beckwith, risked his life and career to investigate and punish the perpetrators--but they all went free. What followed was a series of courtroom dramas that culminated at the Supreme Court, where the justices' verdict compromised the victories of the Civil War and left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent whites for generations.

"The Day Freedom Died "is an electrifying piece of historical detective work that captures a gallery of characters from presidents to townspeople, and re-creates the bloody days of Reconstruction, when the often brutal struggle for equality moved from the battlefield into communities across the nation.

If one has, at the very least, a twinkle of interest of black history, I recommend this book for your library:

"WITHOUT SANCTUARY: Lynchng photography in America"
by James Allen, Hilton Als, John Lewis, and Leon F. Litwack



This book speaks to and illustrates with actual photos, of (next to the native american genocide) the darkest and sickest periods in the history of amerikkka.

"CREATIONISM'S TROJAN HORSE: The Wedge of Intellegent Design"
by Barbara Forrest & Paul R. Gross

A documented exposé of the intelligent design (ID) movement contributed to the stunning victory in federal court of eleven Dover, PA. parents who recognized ID's threat to public education and religious freedom.

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"The book, however, does more than expose the origins of a movement detrimental to sound scientific education in America. It describes what real "science" truly represents, disposing of arguments that every bunch or hoped-for outcome is to be granted intellectual validity. It is difficult enough for the media to discuss science in a way that interested listeners and readers can understand; it is nearly unheard of for radio, television or print reporters to be given the chance to explore the "philosophy of science" for lay audiences. This book, however, moves that explanation of the heart of scientific inquiry forward."

Rev. Barry Lynn
Executive Directer
Americans United for Separation
of Church and State
March 2006

thank you Raptor

"The Australian government's proposal to encourage individual leases on indigenous land will not necessarily lead to improved economic outcomes."

Tom Calma

http://www.mup.unimelb.edu.au/catalogue/0-522-85478-8.html

I went to the book launch of this last week... looks and sounds very interesting... and honest....

FireFly,

What books should I look out for regarding tazmania and it's indigenous people?

And, is Henry Reynolds -aboriginal? If not, are there any aboriginal authors writing on the culture and history of their people?

Also, what do the indigenous people of australia call themselves down there? Aboriginal sounds like a european concoction.

Byetheway, have you ever been to Perth? I've been there before. I had a good time.

"FROM COLUMBUS TO CASTRO: The History of the Caribbean (1492-1969)"
by Eric Williams

The History of the Caribbean is about (or during the time this book was being written) 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands: Jamaica, Haiti Barbados, Antiqua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others -separated by the lanquages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or-latterly-American, the nationality of their maters has made only a notional difference to the peoples of the Caribbean. The history of the Caribbean is dominated by the history of sugar, which is inseparable from the history of slavery; which was inseparable; until recently, from the systematic degradation of labor in the region.

I would also follow this book up with "THE BLACK JACOBINS: Toussaint L'Oveture and the San Domingo Revolution", by C.L.R. James

And:

Randall Robinson's, "An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President"

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"Study the people who took you out of history. Then you'll understand -your history."
"For your survival, draw on the intellectual heritage of the whole world, but always start with your own intellectual heitage". --Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"Revenge knows few limits when the privileged and powerful are subjected to the kind of terror they regularly mete out to their victims." --Noam Chomsky

"Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it." --Steve Biko

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Originally posted by Raptor:
FireFly,

What books should I look out for regarding tazmania and it's indigenous people?

And, is Henry Reynolds -aboriginal? If not, are there any aboriginal authors writing on the culture and history of their people?

Also, what do the indigenous people of australia call themselves down there? Aboriginal sounds like a european concoction.

Byetheway, have you ever been to Perth? I've been there before. I had a good time.

Raptor, I'll put together a short list for you - it will be a mix of recent and not-so-recent.
I'll ask around about books specifically on Tasmania's Indigenous history, as I don't personally know of any - but I'm sure they exist.

Apparently, it was through his research and prolific writing as a historian, that Henry Reynolds began to see evidence of Indigenous ancestry of his own. As was the case with white colonization a lot of people with Aboriginal ancestry 'passed' and so a lot of family information and personal history was destroyed, which tragically, makes information difficult, if not impossible, to find.

Henry R has also written educational text books for secondary (high school) level. It was of major concern to myself and many others when the Howard government started talking about changing history curriculums. It's so good he's no longer our PM. Not that his replacement is perfect - but Rudd has certainly shown respect and inclusion for Indigenous Australia. SORRY is step number 1.

Thanks for posting the books on Haiti.
I just picked up the new book by Edwidge Danticat 'Brother, I'm Dying' I respect and enjoy her writing style. This title is a true story about the mistreatment of her immediate family. I consider her a powerful political writer/activist.

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Originally posted by FireFly:
Raptor, I'll put together a short list for you - it will be a mix of recent and not-so-recent.
I'll ask around about books specifically on Tasmania's Indigenous history, as I don't personally know of any - but I'm sure they exist.

"THEY DARE TO SPEAK OUT: People And The Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby"
by Paul Findley

The book is speaks to the persuasive influence of AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee) with regard to u.s. politics and policy, especially foreign policy.

Findley also describes how AIPAC influences elections: congressional, senatorial, and presidential.

He also details how amerikkka's unconditional support of israel which is pissin' folks off all around the world which adds to the flames of anti-amerikkkan sentiments.

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"Study the people who took you out of history. Then you'll understand -your history."
"For your survival, draw on the intellectual heritage of the whole world, but always start with your own intellectual heitage". --Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"Revenge knows few limits when the privileged and powerful are subjected to the kind of terror they regularly mete out to their victims." --Noam Chomsky

"Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it." --Steve Biko

I just picked up one called, "The Black Woman's Guide to Black Men's Health"...

...and it looks to be very good. Also, The Black and Latina Women's Smart Heart Guide looks good as well. I will double check the title on that...

"WIAW!"

Thank you Ms ShayaButHer... all about yourself (and your posts) is positive and proactive
And those sassy avatars... whoohooo!

THANK YOU, FireFly!

....oh, and those are the CLEAN avatars...LOL. I will be rotating some of the old ones and creating more...


Oh, btw, I am waiting on my new book by some staffers at the Washington Post, entitled, Being A Black Man

"WIAW!"

MEDICAL APARTHEID
by Harriet A. Washington



From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.

Medical Apartheid is the first and only [thus far] comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections.

Moving into the twentieth century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and the view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities.

Shocking new details about the government’s notorious Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less-well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, prisons, and private institutions.

Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The Origins of Australian Aboriginal Activism
John Maynard

9780855755508, Aboriginal Studies Press, November 2007, 256pp, PB , 230x150mm

Here John Maynard explores the first successful all-Aboriginal activist group, the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association (AAPA) in the early 20th century. Their demands centred on Aboriginal rights to land, citizenship, preventing Aboriginal children being taken from their families, and defending a distinct Aboriginal cultural identity. For the first time in Australia’s history, Aboriginal people held street rallies, conducted regional and city meetings, and used newspapers as a political tool. Maynard explores the AAPA’s formation, its platform and people, and the reasons it was stopped — by political forces.

Raptor... check your PM

Another link to info about Tasmanian history, Richard Flanagan reviews James Boyce's book Van Dieman's Land where those lil Tasmanian Devils roar:
http://evatt.org.au/news/474.html

I haven't read it or set eyes on it so I can't comment....

Never more timely
20 February 2008

Richard Flanagan reviews James Boyce's Van Diemen's Land.

At a moment when Australians seem once more prepared to voyage forward, there has arrived a book for these new times.

In one of those moments of coincidence that a novelist is rarely allowed but life frequently offers, we have in the same week in which history is being made with the apology to the Stolen Generations, a remarkable history being published that offers a new and mature understanding of our origins.

For after what was falsely termed 'the history wars', but which was rather a perverted attempt to politicise the past in order to justify the renascent bigotries of what already seems a strange, lost decade, we have, in James Boyce's Van Diemen's Land, a landmark of historical scholarship that suggests a largeness and openness in our origins as a nation of which we need not be scared, nor ashamed, far less divided by bitterness and hate.

"a landmark of historical scholarship that suggests a largeness and openness in our origins as a nation"

Though Boyce's story is frequently terrible, this is not a work of accusation, but a history of hope.

It suggests that we are not dispossessed Europeans, but a muddy wash of peoples who were made anew in the merge of an old pre-industrial, pre-modern European culture with an extraordinary natural world and a remarkable black culture.

As much as a process of colonisation, Boyce's work suggests a history of indigenisation -- a strange uneven, frequently repressed, often violent process in which a white underclass took on much of black ways of living.

It suggests we have a connection with our land not solely based on ideas of commerce, and that there are continuities in our understanding of our land that extend back into pre-history.

It is an argument, never more timely, that we are our own people, not a poor imitation of elsewhere.

[click here to read the full speech]
http://evatt.org.au/publications/papers/199.html