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Bloggers tackle Sapphire's Push with Precious buzz

With the release of the movie Precious, both mainstream media and the blogosphere are buzzing again about the troubling story of an obese Harlem teen...
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Tyler Perry, 60 Minutes, speaks on friendship with Oprah and childhood abuse

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Tyler Perry, the movie, play and television producer, director, writer and New Orleans native appeared on 60 Minutes October 25 to discuss his rags to...
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Carleen Brice's Orange Mint and Honey becomes a movie starring Jill Scott

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Novelist Carleen Brice's has been sharing big news. Lifetime Television has optioned her book Orange Mint and Honey to be a movie starring singer,...
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Is the $25K Bellwether Prize Calling Your Name?

If you have written a novel and not yet published it that could be classified as "literature of social change" then consider submitting it...
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300 words on Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author

Name: Alice Malsenior Walker Birthdate: February 9, 1944 Birthplace: Eatonton, Ga. Current Residence: Northern California Marital Status: Divorced...
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The indisputably black vampires of Jewelle Gomez, L.A. Banks, and Octavia Butler

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In part one's examination of black vampires in literature, four book authors were said to top the list for putting the black vampire on center stage....
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Is it twilight or dawn of the black vampire?

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With so much attention on the world's most celibate and indisputably white vampire, Twilight's Edward Cullen (actor Robert Pattinson), and lingering...
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Banning Toni Morrison and Alice Walker in Michigan, but not just yet

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Forget winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Perhaps you've truly arrived as a great American writer when a school system wants to ban your book,...
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Black author Sapphire, her novel Push becomes Precious on big screen this fall

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Sapphire is known as a performance poet, sometimes called a spoken word artist. She is also a novelist, the author of the critically-acclaimed book...
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Paging Steelers star James Harrison--history is bigger than you

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-- Harrison, when will you contribute more than prowess on a football field? You could learn a few things from another star athlete. BTW, man,...
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