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Claude Brown Writers & Readers Series, October 2000-September 2008
 
Author Book or Affiliation
Crush | Do the Write Thing: 7 Steps to Publishing Success | Family Pictures  
Say a Prayer for Me: One Woman’s Life of Faith and Triumph 
Marie Arana 
American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood | The Washington Post 
Jabari Asim
The N Word | The Road to Freedom | Daddy Goes to Work 
Quique Aviles
The Immigrant Museum  
Denise Barnes
The Washington Times 
Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women Bridges: Reuniting Daughters and Daddies 
Teresa Bevin
Dreams and Other Ailments 
Sherry Boone 
Ellen Craft: A New American Opera 
Rovenia Brock
Dr. Ro’s Ten Secrets to Livin’ Healthy 
Claude Brown
Manchild in the Promised Land 
A’Lelia Bundles
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker 
David Burnett 
Journalist/Producer
Charisse Carney-Nunes  
Nappy | Songs of a Sistermom | I Dream for You a World
Kenneth Carroll
Anthologized Poems  
Kevin P. Chavous
Serving Our Children: Charter Schools and the Reform of American Public Education
Maxine Clair
October Suite 
Elizabeth Clark Lewis
Living In, Living Out 
Larry Grant Coleman
Pot Likker: Stories for Teachers & Learners  
Daryl Avis              
Klan-Destine Relationships 
Miriam DeCosta-Willis  
Singular Like a Bird 
Debra Dickerson
The End of Blackness | An American Story 
David Anthony Durham
Walk Through Darkness  | Gabriel’s Story 
Patricia Elam
Breathing Room 
Kim Frazier
DC Hand Dance: Capitol City Swing 
Patrice Gaines
Laughing in the Dark 
C.R. Gibbs
Black Explorers | Black Georgetown Remembered 
Brian Gilmore
Elvis Presley Is Alive and Well and Living in Harlem 
Robert Giron 
Songs for the Spirit 
Marita Golden
Long Distance Life | Migrations of the Heart 
Hamil Harris
The Washington Post 
Wil Haygood
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. | The Haygoods of Columbus: A Love Story 
J.C. Hayward
WUSA*9 Anchor 
Nappy Hair | Thereafter Johnnie 
James Horton
Slavery and the Making of America | In Hope and Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks 
Donna Wyant Howell
I Was a Slave series  
Esther Iverem
We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies | Living in Babylon  
Kenji Jasper
Dark; Dakota Grande | National Public Radio  
Tambourine Moon; Private Lessons 
Tayari Jones
Leaving  Atlanta | The Untelling 
Oni Lasana
Sister Wings 
Doug Levitt
Greyhound Diaries 
Haki Madhubuti
Tough Notes: Letters to Young Black Men 
Marcus Major
Good Peoples 
Nathan McCall
Makes Me Wanna Holler 
Diane McKinney-Whetstone 
Blues Dancing; Tumbling 
E. Ethelbert Miller
Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer 
Karen Quinones Miller
Satin Doll; I’m Telling 
Texeira Nash 
Assorted poems 
Betty Nyangoni
Assorted publications 
Dorothy Phaire 
Murder and the Masquerade 
Leonard Pitts| Jr.
Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood 
Renee Poussaint
Tutu and Franklin 
Tracy Price-Thompson
Black Coffee; Chocolate Sangria 
Lurma Rackley
Laugh If You Like, Ain’t a Damn Thing Funny: The Life Story of Ralph “Petey” Greene as told to Lurma Rackley 
Runoko Rashidi
Off the Beaten Path with Runoko Rashidi; African Presence in Early Asia
Nelly Rosario
Song of the Water Saints 
Patrick Sanchez
Once Upon a Nervous Breakdown | Girlfriends | The Way It Is 
Spend Well| Live Rich: How to Get What You Want with the Money You Have | Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich 
Founder, Black American West Museum  
Little X: Growing Up in the Nation of Islam | Do Me Twice: My Life After Islam
Adrienne Washington
The Washington Times 
Jaye Wood
Platinum Love 
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business and the End of White America 
Yolanda Young
On Our Way to Beautiful