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Articles in Jan-Feb 2004 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Return to romance - Brief Article
• Tia Williams - Deals - auctions book to Putnam - Brief Article
• Guess who's coming to a theater near you? Only a few movies adapted from books by black authors make their way to the silver screen. A handful of intriguing projects now in development are poised to beat new and diversified paths through Hollywood
  by Michael E. Ross
• Haiti's bicentennial
  by Marjorie Valbrun
• One Day I Saw a Black King - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Glenn Townes
• Ready for Revolution: the Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael - Kwame Ture - Book Review
  by C. Gerald Fraser
• Tom Feelings, visionary: a master of the craft of image opened doors in publishing - tribute
  by Bernette Ford
• The Sistah Circle Book Club®: an African American women's book club - Brief Article
• Awards - Brief Article
• Blair Underwood goes for the greenlight: a six-year journey to develop and star in a film based on Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep catches fire in a partnership with an enthusiastic studio. Here's the story so far in bringing one popular black novel to t
  by Susan McHenry
• Great men, great minds, great food - Pierre Toussaint: A Biography; C.L.R. James: Letters From London; A Taste of Haiti - Book Review
  by Ellieen V. Ancrum
• Posthumous jewels: Gwendolyn Brooks left us many rich words - In Montgomery and Other Poems - Book Review
  by Elizabeth Alexander
• Souls of My Brothers: Black Men Break Their Silence, Tell Their Truths, and Heal Our Spirits - Book Review
  by Tanu T. Henry
• Flying off the shelves
  by Michelle Gay
• Gerald Boyd - Deals - Brief Article
• Signings & sightings - Calendar
• Behind black music: two intriguing critical overviews - Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music - Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop to Hip-Hop - Book Review
• Destinations to fuel love's fires: authors of the romance genre offer their favorite spots - sojourn
  by Gwendolyn E. Osborne
• America's glass house: essays on Cold War global politics and the Civil Rights Movement - Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 - Book Review
  by Shatema Threadcraft
• Who's Gonna Take the Weight? Manhood, Race and Power in America - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Kalyn Johnson
• 5th anniversary reflections - from the editor-in-chief
  by William E. Cox
• FYOS Entertainment, LLC, recently struck a royalty-inclusive deal with Writer's Digest Book Club - Deals - for Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyright, Trademark, and Contracts in Plain Language - Brief Article
• Classics revisited - as the word turns … - Cry, the Beloved Country - Brief Article - Book Review
• Return of Kindred spirits: an anniversary for Octavia E. Butler is a time for reflection and rejoicing for fans of speculative fiction
  by Earni Young
• Sweet hour of prayer: four new books highlight African-descended spiritual traditions of prayer, ritual, study—and laughter - Book Review
  by Alvelyn J. Sanders
• BIBR recommends - Bibliography
• Precocious kid authors: three youthful writers make their own successful way into print - self-publishing
  by Victoria Christopher Murray
• Going forward - executive editor's view
  by Angela P. Dodson
• The Harlem cookbook: Recipes and Reflections from the Abyssinian Baptist Church - Deals - Brief Article
• Black America's popular historian: Lerone Bennett Jr. almost retired after 50 years at Ebony. Now his next five books, like his first 10 works, will have to be written after hours, too - spotlight
  by Wayne Dawkins
• Hirschfeld uptown - Hirschfeld's Harlem - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Hottentot Venus - Book Review
  by Jill Nelson
• The Colossus of New York: a City in Thirteen Parts - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Herb Boyd
• Readers & writers, ink: contributors to an anthology create an alliance - books & clubs
  by Pat Houser
• Thanks for getting us together - letters to the editor - Letter to the Editor
• Kimberla Lawson Roby - Deals - sells book to Morrow - Brief Article
• Reassembling Africa: a leading anthropologist proposes an essential library for understanding the Black Diaspora in the Americas
  by Sheila S. Walker
• Decoding Betye Saar - Betye Saar, David C. Driskell Series of African American Art - Book Review
  by Carroll Parrott Blue
• Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do - Book Review
  by Melissa Ewey Johnson
• America Behind the Color Line: Dialogue with African Americans - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Herb Boyd
• Nubian Heritage: a flagship in Harlem - market buzz - Brief Article
  by Lynnette Velasco
• More author fan mail - letters to the editor - Letter to the Editor
  by J.R. Lankford
• Huey: Spirit of the Panther, by David Hilliard with Kent and Keith Zimmerman - Deals - Brief Article
• Shhh! And cover your computer screen: librarians take on unwanted roles as Internet censors after Supreme Court ruling
  by Robert S. Anthony
• The all-seeing lens - The End of Polio: A Global Effort to End a Disease - Book Review
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• Baggage Claim - Book Review
  by Melissa Ewey Johnson
• Uncloseting a leader: a biography and an anthology of Bayard Rustin's writings round out our view of his humanity - Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin & Time on Two Crosses; The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin - Book Review
  by Kai Wright
• Black history for the young: books recommended for every age that teach about our heritage - Bibliography
• Thanks for the boost - letters to the editor - Letter to the Editor
  by Trina Thompson Stanley
• Martha Southgate - Deals - Brief Article
• Bounty by the sea: the distinctive cuisine and culture of the Dafauskie's Gullah people - Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin' Joe Butter Beans, Ol' 'Fuskie Fried Crab Rice, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling, and Other Sea Island Favorites - Book
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Our kind of style - Style and Grace: African Americans at Home - Book Review
  by Yanick Rice Lamb
• Night Journey - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Arlene McKanic
• Black Greek 101: the Culture, Customs, and Challenges of Black Fraternities and Sororities - Book Review
  by Monique W. Morris
• Just Us Books 15th anniversary - children's bookshelf - Brief Article
• Schomburg gets Ashe papers - Brief Article
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Cornel West - Deals - Brief Article
• It's all in the cards! Learn how the greeting card industry can employ your writing talents - bookbytes
  by Sheryl Estrada
• Thinking Harlem - Spirit of Harlem: Portrait of America's Most Exciting Neighborhood - Book Review
  by Clarence V. Reynolds
• The Honey Well - Book Review
  by Donia Elizabeth Allen
• Beyond the "Moses" myths: two new biographies examine who Harriet Tubman really was - Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories & Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom - Book Review
  by Denise Simon
• The African American book fair - children's bookshelf
  by Suzanne Rust
• Hip-hop lit - literature - Brief Article
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Jacqueline Thomas - Deals - book sold to Steeple Hill - Brief Article
• Make your life extraordinary! - Advertorial
  by Felicia T. Scott
• To each, his or her own genre: five hot African American writers who are creating novels for every kind of popular taste
  by Bernadette Adams Davis
• A Family Affair - Brief Article - Book Review
  by Claudia Sarden
• Passing: When People Can't Be Who They Are - Book Review
  by Elizabeth Atkins
• Recent biographies and notable historical fiction - children's bookshelf