By Ron Wynn
NASHVILLE, TN — There are several prime titles coming this month from Black authors as the summer winds down. They cover various subjects and range from memoirs to exposes and essay collections.
One of the more poignant is Don’t Let Them Bury My Story. It’s a first person account of the horrendous 1921 Tulsa riot from 109-year-old Viola Ford Fletcher.
The 60th anniversary of the March on Washington that brought over 250,000 people to the Capitol is August 28th. “I Have A Dream” is a new special edition volume of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s monumental speech. The new volume also contains afterwords from his three surviving children, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Stuart King and Dr. Bernice King.
Poet Richard Reeves offers his thoughts on multiple subjects in a collection of essays titled “Dark Days.”
The rapper “Jeezy,” aka Jay Jenkins tells his story of climbing up the rap ladder and also surviving the mean streets in “Adversity For Sale.” Author and historian Craig Shreve tells the amazing true story of the first African Samurai in his appropriately titled volume “The African Samurai.”
Finally, journalist Brent Zook talks about her her experiences growing up in a bi-racial family in “Girl In The Yellow Poncho.”
These are just a few of the prime books being released this month by Black authors.
