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“Max Wolf Valerio’s observations about transitioning from a lesbian to a heterosexual male both challenge and confirm our assumptions about gender. As Valerio undergoes the…
“Adapted from the novel, The Autobiography of Malcolm X written by Alex Haley, this is an amazing biopic of one of the most influential African American leaders to date. It…
“When she changed genders, she changed the world. It was the groundbreaking publication of She’s Not There in 2003 that jump-started the transgender revolution. By turns…
“On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to…
“In a memoir about the power of race to share one’s personal identity, the daughter of Jewish father and African-American mother recalls her confusing but ultimately rewarding…
Written in alternating chapters, a mother and daughter describe the accident that nearly killed the daughter and left her paralyzed, and their determination to allow her to live…
“As she bears witness to the sweeping corruption, dilapidated buildings and shameful legacy of Antigua’s colonial past, Kincaid compels us to think about the people behind the…
“A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration…
“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River.…
“In 1985 an ambitious young Mexican-American from California’s rural San Joaquin Valley became one of the few Latinos to enter America’s most prestigious university. With…