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Fifty-Five Years Ago Today… Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin Yes, this publicity hit is from February 26, 1958, but we didn't have a blog (much less the not-to-be-missed Beacon Buzz report) back then … The New York Times published this review of James Baldwin's Notes of a Native Son, written by Langston Hughes.…
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Enter to win a free copy of Shout, Sister, Shout!, the biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
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Gayle F. Wald, a professor at George Washington University, is the author of Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in 20th -Century U.S. Literature and Culture. She wrote the liner notes for a critically acclaimed 2003 Rosetta Tharpe tribute album. Wald lives in…
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