Oct. 10, 2007
LXXXVI
The End of Dying (Paperback) by Mignon H. Anderson (Author) Mignon Holland Anderson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Revising the Blueprint: Ann Petry and the Literary Left (Hardcover) by Alex Lubin (Editor) Alex Lubin is assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico.
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (Sexual Cultures) (Hardcover) by Robert Reid-Pharr (Author) Robert Reid-Pharr is Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.
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Strange Fruit
Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)
Originally sung by: Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves, Blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees, Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh, Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck, for the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, for the sun to rot, for the tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.......(Read More)
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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War (Hardcover) by Victoria E. Bynum (Author)
Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Hardcover) by Ingrid Monson (Author)
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