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Title How to make Black America better : leading African Americans speak out / Tavis Smiley.
Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, 2001.
Edition 1st ed.

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 Storage African American Literature Special Collection  E 185.86 .S633 2001    LIB USE ONLY
 Undergraduate Library Storage  E 185.86 .S633 2001    CHECKED IN
Description xvi, 249 pages ; 22 cm.
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Contents Introduction / Tavis Smiley -- Ten Challenges to Black America / Tavis Smiley -- What Leading African Americans Have to Say About How to Make Black America Better -- "Each Other's Keeper" / Susan L. Taylor -- "History, Heritage, and Hope" / Cathy Hughes -- "How We, as African Americans, Can Improve Our Community and Our Country in the Twenty-first Century" / Dr. C. DeLores Tucker -- "Making Black America Better" / Representative Maxine Waters -- "Controlling Our Destinies" / Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. -- "Hard Truths" / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- "The Freedom Symphony's Fourth Movement" / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. -- "Rising Just a Bit Higher" / Nikki Giovanni -- "Cherished" / E. Lynn Harris -- "Updating Our Battles" / Stanley Crouch -- "Getting Along" / Tyra Banks -- "Full Political Participation" / Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. -- "Rebuilding Black America" / Sinbad -- "Leveraging Our Power" / Earl G. Graves -- "Behaving Better" / Shaquille O'Neal -- "A Community of Accomplishment" / Chuck D -- "The Digital Age" / Darien C. Dash -- "What We Can Do" / Marian Wright Edelman -- "Try, Try, Try ... to Teach All Children Well" / Farai Chideya -- "Change the Children" / Bishop Noel Jones -- "Making Black America Better Through Self-Knowledge" / Na'im Akbar, Ph. D. -- "The Challenge of Race and Education" / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. -- "Historically Black Colleges and Universities" / Tom Joyner -- "Just for Today ..." / Dennis Kimbro -- "Our Golden Age" / Synthia Saint James -- "The New Millennium" / Vivica A. Fox.
Summary Leading African American politicians, writers, thinkers, and artists explore the challenges confronting African American society, discussing such issues as affirmative action, crime, racial harmony, family life, and political power.
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Social values -- United States -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
African Americans -- Quotations.
Added Title African American Literature Special Collection.
Jay Charles Levine Collection in Memory of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Related To Online version: Smiley, Tavis, 1964- How to make Black America better. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2001 (OCoLC)606489433
ISBN 0385502141 (alk. paper)
9780385502146 (alk. paper)
OCLC # 45439851
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