Angela P. DodsonStudentsDr. Maya Angelou Wins High HonorThe National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, announced that it would award its 2013 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to Dr. Maya Angelou at the 64th National Book Awards Ceremony in New York on November 20 in New York.September 30, 2013HomeTo Dream Once MoreTo commemorate its role in the planning and execution of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has published a book that goes behind the scenes of the Civil Rights Movement to capture the drama of that great day.August 26, 2013HomeExhuming Our HeritageIf anyone had told me years ago that I would communicate almost daily with a white woman whose ancestors almost certainly played a role in enslaving many of mine, I would not have believed them.August 8, 2013HBCUsCivil War in BookAs we celebrate the birth of the nation on July 4, it seems appropriate to reflect on the era in which the United States stood in danger of an irreversible divideJune 30, 2013African-AmericanFreedom DeferredThe 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated at the beginning of this year, but, as most scholars know, freedom did not come immediately for most African-Americans who were held in slavery.June 4, 2013Faculty & StaffGift List For GradsMany graduations will no doubt take place this month. If you will be giving gifts to a graduate or two, books are always appreciated.May 1, 2013StudentsAll About Diversity“Celebrate Diversity Month” was proposed in 2004, when two diversity companies, ProGroup, Inc. and Diversity Best Practices, created a proclamation for the observance. It is now widely observed in April.April 3, 2013HomeA Parade of WomenWomen’s History Month reminds us of how far women’s rights have advanced and of women’s contributions to our country, as the struggle for gender equity continues around the globe. Many of the books about women, past, present and future available at http://diversebooks.net/ document those struggles.March 4, 2013HomeRead BlackCarter Godwin Woodson once said racial prejudice “is merely the logical result of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind.” February is, of course, Black History Month. It has its roots in the establishment of Negro History Week in 1926 by Woodson.February 5, 2013African-AmericanFree at Last!This month, we not only celebrate the inauguration of the first black U.S. president to his second term, on Jan. 20, and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on Jan. 21, but we also mark the 150th anniversary of the date the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Jan. 1, 1883. That makes this a fitting time to look at books about Lincoln’s time.January 4, 2013Previous PagePage 5 of 15Next Page