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Into Africa, Being Black - by Fred Lee Hord (Paperback)

Into Africa, Being Black - by  Fred Lee Hord (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr. Hord's space among the poets of the Black Arts Movement. He remains, as John O. Killers would state, one of the long distance runners.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr. Hord's space among the poets of the Black Arts Movement. He remains, as John O. Killers would state, one of the long distance runners. He is in a league with Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Askia Toure, Jayne Cortez, Eugene Redmond, Lucille Clifton, Kalamu ya Salaam, and others who created a movement that helped to change America and the world for the literate and liberated majority.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara), full professor and Director of Africana Studies at Knox College, is Founder, past President and current Executive Director of the national Association for Black Culture Centers. He is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, Reconstructing Memory: Black Literary Criticism, and editor of Black Culture Centers: Politics of Survival and Identity. Hord also co-edited a college text on Africana philosophy with Jonathan Scott Lee entitled I Am Because We Are.

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