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A young Aretha Franklin captivates her community with the song
"Respect" during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, in this
striking picture book biography that will embolden today's young
readers to sing their own truth. When Aretha Franklin sang, she
didn't just sing...she sparked a movement. As a performer and a
civil rights activist, the Queen of Soul used her voice to uplift
freedom fighters and the Black community during the height of the
1960s Civil Rights Movement. Her song "Respect" was an anthem of
identity, survival, and joy. It gave hope to people trying to make
change. And when Aretha sang, the world sang along. With Hanif
Abdurraqib's poetic voice and Ashley Evans's dynamic illustrations,
Sing, Aretha, Sing! demonstrates how one brave voice can give new
power to a nation, and how the legacy of Aretha Franklin lives on
in a world still fighting for freedom.
A poetry collection where personal is inevitably political and
ecological, Motherfield is a poet's insistence on
self-determination in authoritarian, patriarchal Belarus. Julia
Cimafiejeva was born in an area of rural Belarus that became a
Chernobyl zone when she was a child. The book opens with a poet's
diary that records the course of violence unfolding in Belarus
since the 2020 presidential election. It paints an intimate
portrait of the poet's struggle with fear, despair, and guilt as
she goes to protests, escapes police, longs for readership, learns
about the detention of family and friends, and ultimately chooses
life in exile. But can she really escape the contaminated farmlands
of her youth and her impure Belarusian mother tongue? Can she
really escape the radiation of her motherfield? This is the first
collection of Julia Cimafiejeva's poetry in English, prepared by a
team of co-translators and poets Valzhyna Mort and Hanif
Abdurraqib.
A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist,
Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February
IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed,
Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus, and a Winter's
Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews:
Kirkus and Booklist "Warm, immediate and intensely personal."-New
York Times How does one pay homage to A Tribe Called Quest? The
seminal rap group brought jazz into the genre, resurrecting
timeless rhythms to create masterpieces such as The Low End Theory
and Midnight Marauders. Seventeen years after their last album,
they resurrected themselves with an intense, socially conscious
record, We Got It from Here . . . Thank You 4 Your Service, which
arrived when fans needed it most, in the aftermath of the 2016
election. Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group's
history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its
distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself. The result is
as ambitious and genre-bending as the rap group itself. Abdurraqib
traces the Tribe's creative career, from their early days as part
of the Afrocentric rap collective known as the Native Tongues,
through their first three classic albums, to their eventual breakup
and long hiatus. Their work is placed in the context of the broader
rap landscape of the 1990s, one upended by sampling laws that
forced a reinvention in production methods, the East Coast-West
Coast rivalry that threatened to destroy the genre, and some record
labels' shift from focusing on groups to individual MCs. Throughout
the narrative Abdurraqib connects the music and cultural history to
their street-level impact. Whether he's remembering The Source
magazine cover announcing the Tribe's 1998 breakup or writing
personal letters to the group after bandmate Phife Dawg's death,
Abdurraqib seeks the deeper truths of A Tribe Called Quest; truths
that-like the low end, the bass-are not simply heard in the head,
but felt in the chest.
In 1988, when Robert Clark was in his early twenties, he traveled
to Odessa, Texas, to create a visual element for a book about a
high school football team. That book was Buzz Bissinger’s Friday
Night Lights—the chronicle of a season with the Permian Panthers,
one of the state’s winningest teams of all time. About twenty
photos appeared in Bissinger’s book, but Clark shot 137 rolls of
film during his time with the Panthers. Friday Night Lives collects
dozens of the never-before-seen images, taking us back to the team,
the city, and that dramatic season. The archival photos, published
here on the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Bissinger's
bestseller, capture intimate moments among the players and their
families and classmates, as well as the wider world of Odessa. Now
the players have grown up. Friday Night Lives also includes
Clark’s portraits of key Panthers figures at a later age,
documenting complex lives of beauty and struggle. Boobie Miles, the
star fullback sidelined by injury, is here, along with Coach Gaines
and others. In his heartfelt foreword, best-selling author Hanif
Abdurraqib describes how Clark's photos rehumanize the players,
reminding us of the truth of their young lives before their stories
became nationally known in print, film, and television.
**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List** Winner
of the Gordon Burn Prize Winner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal
for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award Finalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel Award for
the Art of the Essay Shortlisted for the National Book Award
'Gorgeous' - Brit Bennett 'Pure genius' - Jacqueline Woodson 'One
of the most dynamic books I have ever read' - Clint Smith At the
March on Washington, Josephine Baker reflected on her life and her
legacy. She had spent decades as one of the most successful
entertainers in the world, but, she told the crowd, "I was a devil
in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too".
Inspired by these words, Hanif Abdurraqib has written a stirring
meditation on Black performance in the modern age, in which
culture, history and his own lived experience collide. With sharp
insight, humour and heart, Abdurraqib explores a sequence of iconic
and intimate performances that take him from mid-century Paris to
the moon -- and back down again, to a cramped living room in
Columbus, Ohio. Each one, he shows, has layers of resonance across
Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and his
own personal history of love and grief -- whether it's the
twenty-seven seconds of 'Gimme Shelter' in which Merry Clayton
sings, or the magnificent hours of Aretha Franklin's homegoing;
Beyonce's Super Bowl show or a schoolyard fistfight; Dave
Chapelle's skits or a game of spades among friends.
For Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School's Spoken Word
Club, there is one phrase that reigns supreme: Respect the Mic.
It's been the club's call to arms since its inception in 1999. As
its founder Peter Kahn says, 'It's a call of pride and history and
tradition and hope.' This vivid collection of poetry and prose --
curated by award-winning and bestselling poets Hanif Abdurraqib,
Franny Choi, Peter Kahn, and Dan 'Sully' Sullivan -- illuminates
just that, uplifting the incredible legacy this community has
cultivated. Among the dozens of current students and alumni,
Respect the Mic features work by NBA champion Iman Shumpert,
National Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson, National Youth Poet
Laureate Kara Jackson, National Student Poet Natalie Richardson,
comedian Langston Kerman, and more.
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