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A Word on Words
For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed …
Black Thunder
'Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at the same time a …
The Negro in Illinois
A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, The Negro in Illinois was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, …
100 Years of Negro Freedom
Drums at Dusk
A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk immerses readers in the opulent and …
Elegy on Kinderklavier
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction Barnes & Noble 2014 Discover Great New Writers Selection, Third Place The stories in Elegy on Kinderklavier explore the profound …
American Negro Poetry: An Anthology
With 200,000 copies in print, this anthology has for decades been seen as a fundamental collection of African-American verse. Bontemps (1902-73), an important figure during and …
The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
Presents a personal perspective on the American light-skinned Negro's experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Chariot in the Sky
Written in 1951 by Arna Bontemps, major literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance and close friend of Langston Hughes, Chariot in the Sky tells the story of the Jubilee Singers …
Louisiana Stories
An anthology of some of the best short stories ever written by Louisiana authors. Included in this compilation are works by Henry Clay Lewis, George Washington Cable, Lafcadio …
Five Black Lives
"Five Black Lives is a collection of ex-slave narratives which spans 150 years in time, from 1729 to 1870, and some thousands of miles in geographical area from Africa to …