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xvi, 249 pages ; 22 cm. |
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USAM copy is signed by author on flyleaf. |
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DJK copy: Author’s signed autograph presentation copy. |
| 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. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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African Americans -- Race identity -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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Social values -- United States -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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Conduct of life -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
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African Americans -- Quotations.
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| Added Title |
Hon. Damon J. Keith Collection.
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African American Literature Special Collection.
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Jay Charles Levine Collection in Memory of Gwendolyn Brooks.
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| Related To |
Online version: Smiley, Tavis, 1964- How to make Black America better. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2001 |
| ISBN |
0385502141 (alk. paper) |
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9780385502146 (alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
45439851 |
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