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At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was fifty-seven years old, well beyond her most prolific days. But in her speech she was in a mood to consider her life, her legacy, her departure from the country she was now triumphantly returning to. “I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too,” she told the crowd. More about this book >
Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the A Tribe Called Quest’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. More about this book >
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from the east side of Columbus, Ohio. A New York Times bestseller, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest was Longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. His second poetry collection, A Fortune For Your Disaster, won the 2020 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and his most recent work, A Little Devil In America, was a 2021 National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
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