Error message

Deprecated function: The each() function is deprecated. This message will be suppressed on further calls in menu_set_active_trail() (line 2344 of /home/eioqu57efm7j/public_html/drupal/includes/menu.inc).

News

Nike Air Force 1 High Cheap, Nike Air Force 1 High Black Cheap Nike Air Force 1 High Cheap, Nike Air Force 1 High Black Cheap

Ishmael Reed Reads Poem "Scrub Jays" on SLATE

Follow the link below and Click the arrow on the audio player to hear Ishmael Reed read this poem. You can also download the recording or subscribe to Slate's Poetry Podcast on iTunes.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2011/08/scrub_jays.html

KONCH MAGAZINE

Konch: a publication for the rest of us, by Ishmael Reed. Konch began as a print magazine in 1990 and went online in 1998. Konch continues to publish those voices that are ignored by the American media, which abandoned their goal of diversifying their ranks by the year 2000- a goal set by the late Robert Maynard. Unlike the mainstream writers who spend two hour lunches hobnobbing with those whom they cover, the contributors to Konch are volunteers.

http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com

Ishmael Reed on Mark Twain and The N-Word

This week, Publishers Weekly reported that a coming edition of Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” will omit racially-sensitive language, like the n-word, which it will replace with the word slave. We asked award-winning novelist, poet and critic Ishmael Reed to offer his take on the story. Note: Some of the language in this essay is just the kind of thing that some folks are trying to edit out of Mark Twain’s books.

Ishmael Reed on PRECIOUS in the New York Times

Judging from the mail I’ve received, the conversations I’ve had and all that I’ve read, the responses to “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” fall largely along racial lines...

Full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/opinion/05reed.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1...

Pages