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When Race Becomes Real at CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia, 22 November 2002. The Griffiths brought out so many friends and neighbors that we sold 48 books in two hours at this booksigning!
Front, L-R: Hanna Griffiths, the youngest writer in the book, and Singley; back, L-R: Debbie and Richard Griffiths, Hanna's parents.
Appleton Post-Crescent (WI)
Amsterdam News (NYC)
Austin Chronicle (TX)
Austin American-Statesman (TX)
Black Issues Book Review
Booklist
Choice (American Library Association)
Council Chronicle (National Council of Teachers of English)
Dallas Morning News (TX)
Dallas Observer (TX)
Daytona Times (FL)
Hartford Courant (CT)
Harvard Law Bulletin
Harvard Magazine
Louisville Courier-Journal (KY)
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (WI)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
UF Lawyer (FL)
Washington Post
(Partial List)
“The Tavis Smiley Show,” National Public Radio - 7-part series featuring Natalie Angier, Susan Straight, Les Payne, Leonard Pitts, Kimberly Springer, Robert Jensen, and Bernestine Singley at active links at www.npr.org
“Black, White and Read All Over” with Toure and Robert Jensen, KERA-FM, Dallas, TX
“People’s Agenda” with Jim Schutze, KERA-TV, Dallas, TX
“Commonwealth Agenda” with Barbara Neely, WUMB-FM, Boston, MA
“Vox Pop” with Lisa Phillips, WAMC-FM, Albany, NY
“St. Louis in the Morning” with Carlton Winfrey, KASL-FM, St. Louis, MO
“The Morning Show” with Willis Johnson, November 2003, KKDA-FM, Dallas, TX
“Stephanie Gaines,” WHUR-FM, Washington, DC
“The Dean’s Talk Room,” XM Satellite Radio, Chicago, IL
“8 O’clock Buzz” with Lucy Gibson, WORT-FM, Madison, WI
“Metro” with Marjorie Ford, WFAA-TV, Dallas, TX |
Africanaonline.com
AlterNet.org
Black Commentator.com
CommonDreams.org
CounterPunch.org
Exittheapple: Brightest City Lights
HeroicStories.com
Indigenous Voices Worldwide
Joyce King, "HATE CRIME: The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas"
Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Behavior
Real Life Race Relations
Richard Prince's JOURNAL-ISMS
Safundi: South African & American Comparative Studies
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
SpeakOut - Institute for Democratic Culture & Education
WorkingforChange.com
ZMag.org
Authors Guild
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22 January
Lecture//discussion, "Ethics, Diversity, and the Law," University of Florida Levin College of Law, Gainesville, FL, organized by JaDawnya C. Butler and sponsored by the Thornal Campbell Moot Court.
6-7 February
Attending "Cross-Cultural Issues in Counseling Education, Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA
9 February
Lecture/discussion, Paul Baker Annual Writers Conference with Jimmy Santiago Baca, Shin Yu Pai, & Lawrence Welsh. Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (alma mater of Erykah Badu, Roy Hargrove, Nora Jones, et al.), Dallas, TX.
26 March
Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA, panel discussion w/ Les Payne (Newsday) & Robert Jensen (University of Texas), organized and hosted by Enid Krieger and the African American Authors Book Club of Charlottesville.
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*13 February – University of Texas, Dallas – Theresa Towner & Joycelyn Moody
20 February – Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA w/ Lisa Dodson
*20 March – The Black Academy of Arts & Letters, Dallas, TX w/ Ira Hadnot
*10 April – W. Dallas Community Center, Dallas, TX w/ Kimberly Stringer, Kalamu ya Salaam, Ira Hadnot, & Lucile Gibson
15 April – “Howard Thurman Guest Lecturer,” Stetson University, Deland, FL
*15 May – KERA-FM – Reading and panel discussion before live audience w/Toure & Robert Jensen
*18 June – Black Images Book Bazaar - Dallas, TX – Theresa Towner, Kiini Ibura Salaam & Ira Hadnot
30 June-4 July - Dublin, Ireland
5-13 July - International Conference on Narrative Therapy and Community Work, University of Liverpool, England
15-21 November – Dulwich Centre for Narrative Therapy, Adelaide, Australia
*Monthly discussions to create sustained race dialogue and to build audiences for the upcoming anthologies in the “Beyond Black & White” series.
3 August – National Association of Black Journalists Convention, Milwaukee, WI w/ Les Payne, Shawn Rhea, Lucile Ebisch Gibson, & Ira Hadnot
23 Sep – Cambridge Public Library w/ Lisa Dodson, Odessa Dorian Cole & Noel Ignatiev
24 Sep – WUMB-FM, Commonwealth Agenda – with host BarbaraNeely
26 Sep – Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, w/ Noel Ignatiev & Lisa Dodson
*10 October - The Writer's Garret, Dallas, TX w/ Susan Straight & Ira J. Hadnot
11-13 October - SisterSpace & Books, Washington, DC, w/ Robert Jensen, Julianne Malveaux, Leonard Pitts, and Tim Wise
15-17 October - University of Texas, Austin w/ David Bradley & Robert Jensen
12-14 November – Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA
*14 Nov – Mesquite Arts Center, Mesquite, TX, w/ David Bradley, Ira J. Hadnot, Theresa Towner, & Robert Jensen
16-18 Nov - Texas Book Festival, Austin w/ David Bradley & Robert Jensen
22 Nov – CNN Center, Atlanta, GA w/ Hanna Griffiths
23 Nov - National Council of Teachers of English Convention, Atlanta, GA
*5 December – Writer’s Garret, Dallas, TX - Ira Hadnot & Theresa Towner
*Monthly discussions Singley conceived to create sustained race dialogue throughout city and to build audiences for the upcoming anthologies in the “Beyond Black & White” series.
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A peek inside WHEN RACE BECOMES REAL
Table of Contents
A listing of authors and anthology chapter titles
Review Excerpts
Clips from reviews
Book chapter excerpt
"Jasper, Texas Elegy"
Audio Clips on NPR
Links to selected authors reading chapter excerpts on NPR
Bernestine in Literary Journals
"The Old Wink and Nod"
Why bother with the facts when it's so easy to keep believing the hype?
"Murder and the Reasonable Man"
Mix evidence and prejudice with a jury, then stir.
"Heat"
Sun isn't the only thing that sets stuff on fire.
"The Tutu"
You're never too young to learn the hard lessons of desire.
Bernestine in Other Anthologies
"Bearing Witness"
When the thing you most fear finally happens, then what?
"White Friends"
Some of my best friends are white. Some aren't.
"Take Me to the Water"
A piece of Texas fiction...or is it?
Bernestine's Magazine Articles
South African Safari
In 1998 we saw the Garden of Eden.
"The New South Africa: Warm and Welcoming"
Five years ago, reality hadn't yet trumped hope.
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