44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

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44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States

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"44 on 44: Forty-Four African American Writers on the Election of Barack Obama 44th President of the United States." Ed. Lita Hooper, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Simanga. Chicago: Third World Press, 2011. xii+162 pp.

Table of contents

● Michael Simanga / Introduction: 44 on 44
● Sonia Sanchez / It's Been a Long Time Coming
● Askia M. Touré / Three for "O" in Light and Shadow
● Renee Simms / Go! Be a Superhero
● Patricia Smith / Man, Roll the Window Down!
● Randall Horton / Brand New Morning
● Frank X Walker / Obama Shuffle
● Jasmine Guy / On the Road '08 : A speech for the Obama Campaign
● Indigo Moor / 44, Sacred and Rising
● Ross Gay / What I Saw Shining on My Mother's Face
● Pearl Cleage / Michelle Obama: Woman of Power
● Opal Moore / Transcendence: Thoughts on Love and Race
● jessica Care moore / Barack Obama & the State of Black Women in Love
● Chuck D. and Gaye Theresa Johnson / From 40 Acres to 8 Cents: A Married Couple's Ruminations on the Symbolism of Barack Obama
● Amiri Baraka / Imagine Obama Talking to a Fool
● LaTasha Diggs / november 4th elegua in satin
● Tina McElroy Ansa / Keep Living
● Kelly Norman Ellis / Crossing Over: Invocation for the New Flag
● Natasha Trethewey / Another Country
● Sala Udin / Bridge from MLK, Jr. to BHO, Jr.: Span of a Lifetime
● Eugene B. Redmond / Passing the Baton: From King to President
● Keith Gilyard / From King to Obama
● Jericho Brown / Receiving Line
● Sababa Akili / President Obama and Organizing
● Nagueyalti Warren / Mrs. Pettawah's Journal Entry, January 20, 2009
● Martin Espada / Litany at the Tomb of Frederick Douglass
● Kevin Harewood / The Revolution is Being Televised!
● Haki R. Madhubuti / The Secret of His Success
● Shawn L. Williams / Audacious Hope, Auspicious Signs: Barack Obama and the Third Reconstruction
● Sharan Strange / Inaugural
● Antoinette Brim / We Winter Still
● Malaika Adero / The Reckoning: A Prayer by the People
● Lita Hooper / The Poem My Son Will Write One Day
● Demetrice Anntia Worley / On This Day, At This Moment: A Ghazal
● E. Ethelbert Miller / The Day the Earth Stood Still
● Gloria House / Annual Martin Luther King Day Observation and March
● Kwame Dawes / New Day
● Tara Betts / Malia at Lincoln’s Desk
● Nathan McCall / White America’s Trauma
● Tony Medina / Basketball Jones: Bofwana's Revenge
● Edward S. Spriggs / The veil falls (Outside the womb)
● Farai Chideya / Educational Opportunity in the Age of Obama
● Parneshia Jones / Auto-correcting History
● Michael Simanga / First President and First Lady
● Quincy Troupe / Three Editorials (from Black Renaissance Noire)

● Contributors

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A0429

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