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Illmatic Consequences was influenced by rapper Nas’s 1994 debut
album Illmatic,” which features internal rhymes and inner-city narratives
based on Nas’s personal experiences. “Nas’s 1994 album ‘Illmatic’
is fundamentally a statement of self-worth. It’s not even just a co...
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Portland is widely regarded as a liberal bastion, and yet the 2010 census
found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” Longstanding racial
tensions led to the formation of a local branch of the Black Panther Party
in the late 1960s. Based in the city’s Albina Distric...
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Last month we interviewed Kelly McWilliams, author of
Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay. She credited her mother's example as
a great influence on her writing. We interviewed her mother, author
Jewell Parker Rhodes, 15 years ago, so we're delighted to rebroadcast our
2008 ...
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Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in
Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved
people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s
mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the...
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E. Ethelbert Miller is a writer, poet and literary activist. His album,
"Black Men Are Precious," was a 2023 Grammy Nominee Finalist for Best
Spoken Word Poetry Album. He is the author of two memoirs and several
books of poetry including The Collected Poems of E. Ethelb...
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Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a voice for the struggles of Black
women in novels and short stories prized for their folksy wisdom and original
voices," J. California Cooper died last week at 82 years old. The Times
continued with a quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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“I wrote Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps to help show young (and
older) readers we can all pitch in to protect the beauty of our oceans and
marine life,” said Sherman. After researching environmentalism and seeing
the effects of pollution, Sherman was inspired to com...
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COVID-19 ravaged many small businesses, but Third Eye Books, opened in 2019,
weathered the storm. Hannah discusses the current business climate and how
it affects his and other small bookstores. He discusses the services this
Southeast Portland literary center offers. I...
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The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones (2019) - Banned as part of broad
efforts to stamp out "critical race theory” in schools.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969) -
Challenged frequently and banned, ostensibly for vulgarity and sexually
explicit materi...
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Everybody knows vampires have been vanquished, right? Welllll, maybe
no.....
Twelve-year-old Malika “Boog” Wilson and her best friends have grown up
idolizing The Vanquishers, a group of masked vampire hunters who wiped out
the last hoard of the undead decades ago. For ki...
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