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Articles in July-August 2004 issue of Black Issues Book Review
- Cultural rhythms of summer reading
by William E. Cox
- High season for book fairs and festivals: Midsummer's Harlem Book Fair highlights a year-round calendar of events
by Bernadette Adams Davis
- Black giants among the boys of summer: Hank Aaron's 715th home run, Richie Allen of the '64 Phillies, and the pride of the Negro League
by Art Rust, Jr.
- Unsung heroes: my sole desire was to write a book on black veterans using their words, to pay tribute to soldiers, sailors and nurses who had never gotten recognition
by Yvonne Latty
- Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land
by Kai Wright
- Willimena Rules! Rule Book #2: How to Fish for Trouble
by Suzanne Rust
- Flying off the shelves
- To everything a season
by Angela P. Dodson
- Black arts to the tenth power: living legend Sonia Sanchez is the literary headliner in the 10th season of the 10-day National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta
by TaRessa Stovall
- Two icons of musical genius: Mary Lou Williams sought the sacred; Marvin Gaye probed the world, the flesh and the Devil
by Joy Duckett Cain
- The vision to build wealth: a financial journalist deconstructs the making of a media mogul
by Susan McHenry
- Love in the Driest Season: a Family Memoir
by Jackie Jones
- Jason & Kyra
by Erica O. Dolland
- Lighting up lives
by Jackie Hardrick
- Writing while white … An unprecedented number of black characters inhabit today's mainstream fiction best-seller lists, but few of them are created by black authors
by Earni Young
- Out, no doubt: today's black gay and lesbian poets proudly proclaim their identities and show their varying talents to an increasingly receptive public
by Reginald Harris
- Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge
by Khalil Abdullah
- Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980's as Experienced by African Americans
by Fred Lindsey
- Shooter
by Elise Virginia Ward
- Celebrating folk art and poetry
by Susan Flamm
- Paving the way to publishing success: hard-won wisdom from authors who established their careers on the self-publishing platform
by Victoria Christopher Murray
- Documenting a black gay and lesbian literary canon: for four years, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has been compiling an archive from underground, small press and self-published workand the rest is history in the making
by Kai Wright
- A Right Worthy Grand Mission: Maggie Lena Walker and the Quest for Black Economic Empowerment
by Janus Adams
- Booker T. Washington and Black Progress: Up From Slavery 100 Years Later
by Fred Lindsey
- I Shook Up the World: The Incredible Life of Muhammad Ali
by Elise Virginia Ward
- Call for submissions
- Living the dream through life's challenges: lessons from Bishop Tutu, a successful African American businessman and other diverse followers of Dr. King
by Angela P. Dodson
- How to market black gay and lesbian books: Southern California's Matais Books relies on the power of community and the appeal of a literary salon
by Matais Pouncil
- Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics
by Dan Holly
- Soul on Bikes: The East Bay Dragons MC and the Black Biker Set
by Nathan Davis
- It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte
- P. Diddy fills the house
by Angela P. Dodson
- Doing Business by the Good Book: 52 Lessons on Success Straight From the Bible
by Kristin Henning
- Recommended bookstores
- Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel
by Herb Boyd
- Black Fiction's great griot master: John Oliver Killens ushered in a new era of the African American novel in 1954 and subsequently mentored a whole generation of black fiction talent. So why is most of his work out of print?
by Keith Gilyard
- The Gospel Cinderella
- Deals
by Angela P. Dodson
- Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity
by Lynnette C. Velasco
- Haiti's eloquent daughter: in the bicentennial year of the conflict-ridden land of her birth, Edwidge Danticat lives in Miami's "Little Haiti" and continues to write about "those things that haunt me."
by Marjorie Valbrun
- Underground Codes: Race Crime, and Related Fires
by Kalyn Johnson
- Atlanta's August Book Club confab: Curtis Bunn's National Book Club Conference convenes for its second year
by Pat Houser
- A Wild Cowboy
- Signings & sightings
- Mother Africa's hospitality
by Daphne Muse
- The Dew Breaker
by Marjorie Valbrun
- Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
by C. Gerald Fraser
- Watch for the DeBerry & Grant contest winner
- Flower Girl Butterflies
- Conversations with a post modern sister: actress-comedian Aisha Tyler is distinctive among celebrtiy authors: she wrote her own book proposal and her own book!
by Pamela K. Johnson
- Celebrating the greatest
by Daphne Muse
- Strange lives and loves left behind: a season for fictional debuts and some rather unusual story lines
by Mary N. Oluonye
- One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream
by Herb Boyd
- What's the Hurry, Fox? And Other Animal Stories
by Suzanne Rust
- Other titles of interest
- Hot summer reads: something hot, not too heavy: sizzling selections for summer: the books everybody will be reading and talking about this summer, or at least the ones the publishers hope will catch fire
- The fabric of her life
by Angela P. Dodson
- Ten years of sizzling chocolate kisses and lasting love: now under BET Books, Arabesque celebrates a decade as black romance publisher
by Diane Patrick
- Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany
by Robin M. Dasher-Alston
- Joe Louis, My Champion
by Suzanne Rust
- Blue-ribbon choices: a librarian-recommended, kid-approved summer reading list
by Fran Ware