Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth. Univ. of Chicago, $45 (400p) ISBN 978-0-226-31776-2
Philosophy professor Harris and English professor Molesworth fuse disciplines in this groundbreaking study of Locke (1885–1954), the preeminent African-American aesthetician and philosopher in the years between WWI and WWII, most familiar as the editor of the New [...]

A fascinating and instructive account of how a family managed while suffering with breast cancer. The emotional strategies used by a father and a daughter while confronting a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. A Father’s Journey, A Daughter’s Voyage: A Cancer Journal is a look at a father and daughter’s relationship, set in the [...]

Methodologies of Black Theology. Cleveland, OH: Pligrim Press, 2003. By Frederick L. Ware
Ware’s book surveys the contemporary black theological movement, identifying major developments in the field, principal schools of thought, and major authors. The schools of thought described in the book are the Black Hermeneutical, Black Philosophical, and Human Sciences schools. The [...]

I am passing along the following information regarding publication of the biography of an amazing 18th century musician, composer and swordsman, The Chevalier De St. George. This man was said to have rivaled Mozart in his compositions, commissioned works from Haydn, and was an expert swordsman.
The fact that he was born of a Senegalese Mother [...]