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Juba to jive : a Dictionary of African-American Slang   Comments

Juba to jive : a Dictionary of African-American Slang


Style Manuals   Comments

Style Manuals
A selected list of sources available in WilsonReference Services.


MasterFile Premier   Comments

MasterFile Premier
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac&Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975.


Two Years Ago - Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion   Comments

Two Years Ago - Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passion
Black New Yorkers: Booklover hopes to profit from his passionby Tanangachi Mfuni, Amsterdam News StaffOriginally Published Vol. 97 No. 40 September 28-October 4, 2006 2006, Amsterdam NewsWhen Harlemite Troy Johnson launched a website dedicated to Black books nearly eight years ago, it came out of a passion for Black people, he said.Today, Johnson s African American Literary Book Club (
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2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced   Comments

2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced
2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced http://books.aalbc.com/2008_essence_literary_awards_nominees.htm Would you believe I attended and forgot my camera! Actually I think I lost it today — cause I can’t find it. Bottom line I don’t have any photos to share. The awards program was a standing room only event. There were plenty of notable authors, celebrities, and book industry
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Contemporary Black Biography   Comments

Contemporary Black Biography


Harlemnite Prays for Shootings… So Say the New York Times   Comments

Harlemnite Prays for Shootings… So Say the New York Times
Someone forwarded me a NY Times Article. The Times usually pisses me off when they write about Black folks ’cause they typically show the our most pathetic side.To be sure the NYT couchs these artilces in sympatheic terms and tone. But this is only to pander to their liberal audience at the expense of Black people.The late quote was from a Brother in Harlem about my age who said in response to a
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online   Comments

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848


QuickStudy — Citing Sources   Comments

QuickStudy — Citing Sources
QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.


Karen Steffans Interviewed by AALBC.com   Comments

Karen Steffans Interviewed by AALBC.com
Karrine Steffans is the author of the New York Times bestsellering books The Vixen Diaries (2007) and the wildly sucessful and scandelous Confessions of a Video Vixen (2005).Confessions is currently [Oct. 2007] the all-time best selling book on AALBC.comI had a chance to interview Karrine, on October 3rd 2007, during the New York City leg of her hectic book tour for The Vixen Diaries: http://
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