Each one contains a book from a Black author as well as a generous amount of beauty and spa products.
In this Throwback Thought, Madame Noire explores an excerpt from a conversation between Nikki Giovanni (poet, activist, teacher) and James Baldwin (novelist, essayist, and cultural critic) from 1971, where the two prolific writers mention in passing a phenomenon we now refer to as "copaganda."
Who else can tell our stories better than we can?
By Olufunmilayo Gittens As African-Americans, we watch more hours of television per week than any other group. But have you ever wondered who the black folks are that script the shows we love? Despite the less than stellar representation of blacks at pitch tables and in writers rooms, there are a number of important African-American […]
In the aftermath of September 11th Kola Boof raised more than eyebrows with the assertion that she and Osama Bin Laden were once lovers. Like the opinions the Sudanese native shares as an outspoken writer and poet, the affair remains controversial and questionable in many circles. In the following essay Boof revisits her days with […]
(News One) — When Ishmael Reed, professor emeritus at California State University-Berkeley, went shopping his book Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the N-Word Breakers to the American publishing establishment, he came away with one nagging question: Are Black writers with a strong left of center political bent an endangered species […]
by Charing Ball As a teenager I dabbled a little – okay a lot – in what is now referred to as Street Lit. Back then, I really didn’t view books about urban life as separate from traditional forms of African-American literature. For me, they were black books by black authors and that was good […]
These writers have enjoyed "bestseller" status and widespread popularity in the past five years.
(Washington Post) — Representation of African Americans by white people in texts records a history of “inferiority.” Based on these perceptions, African Americans have endured slavery, genocide, medical apartheid and segregation. This “inferiority” is a tool fundamental to ethnic distancing in society. Today, this tool is used with great precision in the mainstream publishing industry. While, […]
Press Release — The Writers Guild of America, West has announced its 2010 WGAW Writer Access Project (WAP) honorees. The two-year old program, organized by the Guild’s Diversity Department, identifies diverse writers with television staffing experience and makes samples of their work available to be read by entertainment industry decision makers. A total of 20 […]
(NYTimes) The 10th National Black Writers’ Conference begins on Thursday at Medgar Evers College in New York, an anniversary that prompted Walter Mosley to remember his first conference, in the 1980s. He was just one of many unpublished, struggling writers who showed up, he said. An editor had passed on his first novel, about the […]