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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

I Enjoy Watching Movies On DVD

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I recently heard on a radio news broadcast that the retailer Best Buy was discontinuing the sale of DVDs because more and more people are wa...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Book Discounts At Target

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The super large Target store in East Harlem is scheduled to be closed permanently on October 21. It's one of nine stores across the coun...
Monday, October 2, 2023

I'm Finna Discuss "Finna"

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The first time I saw the word "finna" was in a Facebook post by one of my great-nieces (she's 36 years old). It was a strange ...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Pushing Back Against Book Censorship

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The banning of literature by civic and religious groups and government officials can have unintended consequences like arousing the public...
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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Remake "The Cotton Club" Movie

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Prior to seeing Francis Ford Coppola's film, The Cotton Club in 1984, I had interviewed several people who had either worked at the nig...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

A "Conversation" With The Body's Internal Organs

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During the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, I thought about writing an article that would be an "interview" with the virus. But I aband...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Harlem Renaissance Art Comes To The Met

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If there were such a thing as a time machine, I would gladly get in it and travel to the 1920s, to my favorite historical period, the Harlem...
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Charles Michael Smith is a freelance journalist and book reviewer in New York City. He has written for several newspapers and magazines. He is also the editor of "Fighting Words: Essays by Black Gay Men" (Avon Books, 1999); it was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. His article about Harlem Renaissance luminary Bruce Nugent appeared in "In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology," edited by Joseph Beam (Alyson, 1986; reissued Redbone Press, 2008). He was interviewed for a Q & A article that was published in "Mighty Real: An Anthology of African-American Same Gender Loving Writing," edited by R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams (Effusses/Sangha Publishing, 2010). Urbanbookmaven (c) 2008. All Rights Reserved. No portion of this blog, including any text, photographs, and artwork may be reproduced or copied without written permission.
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