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Question #10 (Posted Jan. 2 2000) Prize

Q: Who is this author?

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Photo Credit: Sandra Seller

Answer: Click Here
The most common incorrect answer: The first person who answered the question won.

 Winner:  Susan Wakefield, St. Louis Park, MN (Mon 1/3/00 2:50 PM) 

Prize:
Miss MurielMiss Muriel
(Click to learn more about this book)

Author:  Ann Petry
Question #9 (Posted Dec 6. 1999) Prize
Q:  Who is the young man pictured below?

Who is He?

 

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The most common incorrect answer: W.E.B. Du Bois

 

 Winner: Nandi Crawford, Prichard, Alabama (Tue 12/7/99 10:23 AM)

Prize:
Click to buy Love LettersLove Letters
(Click to learn more about this book)

Author:  Kirby Roy
Publisher:  Kujichagulia Press
Date Published:  January 1999
Format:  Trade Paper
Question #8 (Posted Dec 6. 1999) Prize
Q:  Who is the young lady pictured below?

Who is she?

 

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The most common incorrect answer: Dorothy West

 

 Winner: Michael N. (Tue 12/7/99 9:59 AM)

Prize:
Click to buy on-lineCivil Rights Childhood
(Click to learn more about this book)
Author:  Jordana Y. Shakoor
Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi
Date Published:  September 1999
Format:  Trade Cloth
Question #7 (Posted Oct. 9, 1999) Prize
Q: Hopefully you won't find this month's contest as EASY as last months!  Who is the handsome young man shown below?

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The most common incorrect answer: Walter Mosley

*Sorry folks.  The emphasis on the word "Easy" above was not intended as clue as in a reference to Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins character, but an attempt indicate I was trying to make the contest more difficult.

 Winner: Catherine Warner, Virginia
(Thu 10/21/99 7:20 PM)

Prize:
Click to buy two citiesTitle:  Two Cities
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Author:  John Edgar Wideman
Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published:  September 1999
Format:  Trade Paper
Question #6 (Posted Sept. 13, 1999) Prize
Q: Alright, give us the name of the playwright AND the year the play opened at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway.

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The most common incorrect answers:
Actually everyone got the playwright's name correct, the only error was the year the play opened

 

 Winner: Carla Broussard, Houston, TX
(Tues. 9/14/1999 11:53 AM)

Prize:
WhispersWhispers in the Night
(Click title or book to order on-line now)

Author:  Dorothy Elizabeth Love

Whispers in the Night is a story about fighting for what you believe in even if it means sacrificing love. A must read that rekindles love, challenges friendships and overcomes regret. Whispers in the Night is a story about fighting for what you believe in even if it means sacrificing love. A must read that rekindles love, challenges friendships and overcomes regret.

Question #5 (Posted Aug. 4, 1999) Prize
Q: These are not Betty Davis' eyes!  Whose eyes do they belong to?

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The most common incorrect answers:
This one was fun.  All the answers submitted were different!  Answers submitted ranged from Walter Mosley to Angela Davis, Alice Walker to Marcus Allen.

 

 Winner: Sherry Bolton, Missouri City, TX
(Wed 8/4/99 8:38 AM)

Prize:
Click to read more about Fertile GroundFertile Ground
Fertile Ground is an unbelievable package of diverse work.  Featuring the work of Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti, E. Ethelbert Miller, Amiri Baraka, Kalamu ya Salaam and many more!
Question #4 (Posted July 11, 1999) Prize
Q: Okay I hope this one is a little harder!  Who do we have below?

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The most common incorrect answers:
Ntozake Shange

 

 Winner: Joy Masseaux, Jamaica Plain, MA
(Sun 7/11/99 11:45 PM)

Prize:
ZonTitle:  Zon
(Click Title to order on-line)

Author:  Gregory K. Morris
Publisher:  3TG Press
Date Published:  May 1997
Format:  Trade Paper

 
Question #3 (Posted June 6, 1999) Prize
Q: This is the top of the head of which famous author?

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The most common incorrect answers:
Ernest Gaines

 

 Winner: Deborah Blacknall, Greensboro, N.C. (Wed, 6/7/99 10:53 AM)

Prize:
Soul InspirationsSoul Inspiration For Women Married To Unbelievers

Date Published:  February 1998
Format:  Trade Paper
Question #2 (Posted May 20, 1999) Prize
Q: Who's chin is this?

Chin

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The most common incorrect answers:
Malcolm X, Nathan McCall

 

 Winner: Kristin Matlock, from Durham, North Carolina (Wed, 5/20/99 2:18 PM)

Prize:
Click to read more about Tough LoveTough Love: Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations on the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur
Editors Kwame Alexander & Michael Datcher, 1996Tough Love: Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations on the Life and Death of Tupac Shakur
Editors Kwame Alexander & Michael Datcher, 1996
Question #1 Prize

Q: This forearm belongs to a prominent figure in African American Literature.  Who's arm is it?

Thuglife

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The most common incorrect answers:
Nathan McCall, Tupac Shakur

 Winner: Jasmine Brock-Kirby from University Place, Washington (Wed, 5/19/99 6:37 AM)

Prize:
Becoming DadTitle:  Becoming Dad; Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood
Author:  Leonard Pitts
Publisher:  
Longstreet Press, Inc.
Date Published:  May 1999

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer: Question #1: Poet, Educator, Nikki Giovanni In tribute to the late rapper, Tupac Shakur. 
Answer:  Question #2: Author, Philosopher, Theologian and Activist, Cornel West
Answer:  Question #3: Author, John Edgar Wideman
Answer:  Question #4: Author, Poet, Activist Sonia Sanchez
Answer:  Question #5: Author, James McBride
Answer:  Question #6: Playwright, Lorraine Hansberry The play opened on October 15, 1964, just three months before she died of cancer on January 12, 1965
Answer:  Question #7: Author, Poet, John A. Williams
Answer:  Question #8: Langston Hughes as a student at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, in 1928.  Photo from the book The Power of Pride, Carole marks and Diana Edkins
Answer:  Question #9: Zora Neale Hurston at Howard University, Washington, D.C., circa 1920. Photo from the book The Power of Pride, Carole marks and Diana Edkins
Answer:  Question #10: Agymah Kamau, author Pictures of a Dying Man and Flickering Shadows

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