Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time Coming is an elegy and a call to action By Kashif Andrew Graham for Chapter16.org “I can’t breathe.” Michael Eric Dyson’s Long Time…
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A Park for the People
Brooks Lamb tells the history of Overton Park through the eyes of Memphians Originally published by Chapter16 February 21, 2019 By Aram Goudsouzian, for Chapter16.org…
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Southern Word connects young people to their voices, each other By Ciona Rouse, for Chapter16.org Benjamin Smith doesn’t really believe in the extraordinary young person.…
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Michelle Duster delivers an intimate biography of Ida B. Wells By Kashif Andrew Graham, for Chapter16.org Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy…
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In Sometimes You Have to Lie, Leslie Brody traces the origin story of an author and her fictional heroine By Kim Green, for Chapter16.org At first…
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Corey Mesler’s hippie poet returns in The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros By David Bersell, for Chapter16.org Corey Mesler’s The Adventures of Camel Jeremy Eros follows its titular…
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Peter Guralnick discusses his latest book, Looking to Get Lost By Jim Patterson, for Chapter16.org If Peter Guralnick only accomplished rescuing Elvis Presley from the bilious…
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Tina Turner shares her spiritual practice of 50 years By Tina Chambers, for Chapter16.org In Tina Turner’s new book, Happiness Becomes You, she advises readers to ask…
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A granddaughter discovers an unexpected legacy of memories, questions, and untold stories By Lori D. Johnson for Chapter16.org For years, I thought I was the…
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Robert Gordon revisits his rollicking tale of a revolutionary musical city By David Wesley Williams, for Chapter16.org The title told it all, like some sci-fi…
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