Author Daniel Black Readings from his latest novel: Twelve Gates to the City in Harlem NY December 9th 2011 at the Hue-man Book Store & Cafe
Twelve Gates to the City is the sequel to Black’s debut They Tell Me of a Home. Sister assumes the voice of the narrator from the spirit realm telling her brother TL things he could have never known about their family.
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Many words come to mind when I think of Harlem. One is always diversity.
One of the most formative teachings I encountered in this regard growing up was “Free To Be You And Me”.
For those of you who are not familiar with it, it is timeless – and as important today as it was then.
There are thousands upon thousands of children’s albums out there, but the one that quietly left its mark with more ’70s children than perhaps any other album was this disc. Free to Be…You and Me was a pet project of proud feminist Marlo Thomas (a.k.a. “That Girl”), and it was born–according to the liner notes–by the desire to provide her niece with music “to celebrate who she was and who she could be.” Harry Belafonte sings “Parents Are People,” ex-football great Rosie Grier offers an incredible, touching melody titled “It’s All Right to Cry,” and Diana Ross waxes future-positive on “When We Grow Up.” A great hour of brain food for young–and not-so-young–children. –Denise Sheppard on Amazon.com
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Rhodes-Pitts, an essayist and recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, takes as her title a 1948 essay wherein Ralph Ellison describes “nowhere” as the crossroads where personal reality meets the metaphorical meanings attached to people and places.
A century of Harlem, through the eyes and lenses of some of the most important artists and photographers of the twentieth century. The vibrant and bustling neighborhood occupying the upper reaches of Manhattan has been at the crossroads of the artistic, literary, and political currents of the African-American community since the early days of the twentieth century.
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Documents Harlem’s transformation from the early days of Dutch settlements and farms to its apogee as the site of one of the 20th century’s most influential musical and literary flowerings in a dense, deftly told history.
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