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Nordette Adams is a poet, fiction writer, journalist, and reluctant literary critic. As a child, she was often chided for reading books with a flashlight after her bedtime. Contact Nordette here.

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Race Matters: No to Obama at schools, Van Jones saga, divisive rhetoric on health care reform

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Yesterday, a man on Twitter decided to engage the African-American Books Examiner in a political discussion, specifically a discussion about...
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Recalling How Katrina Made Us Examine Race

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Saturday, August 29, was the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina breaching the levees of city of New Orleans. That catastrophe caused Americans and...
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Colin Powell on Gates, Crowley: Both Men Overreacted

Colin Powell recently spoke to CNN's Larry King and weighed in on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Sgt. James Crowley altercation. The columnist here...
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Sotomayor hearings: Firsts from Anita Hill Scandal to Thurgood Marshall

Sonia Sotomayor, if confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, would not be the first woman or the first minority on the high court, but she would be the...
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Obama's in Africa, easy books to help you understand

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With President Barack Obama and the first family in Africa this weekend, the African-American Books Examiner has been searching high and low for good...
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Colin Powell on Republican Party and race, Obama's spending, and Michael Jackson's legacy

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Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell sat down with CNN's John King for this Sunday morning's "State of the Union" and an...
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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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Obama's Memorial Day controversy plus 5 books on black soldiers

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The Memorial Day holiday was created first to commemorate the soldiers who died during America's Civil War, and that recognition should include black...
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