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African American authors

And Red All Over

From the FBI file on Lloyd Louis Brown, who wrote the prison novel Iron City (1951), edited several Communist journals, and coauthored Paul Robeson’s autobiography, Here I Stand. The file…

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Bright lights, big speeches

Ralph Ellison and the perils of publicity

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Black letters on a white page

In a new compendium of African American literature, a world of politics

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