| Question #10 (Posted Jan.
2 2000) |
Prize |
Q: Who is this author?
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 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? 
Answer: Click
Here
The most common incorrect answer: W.E.B. Du
Bois
|
Winner:
Nandi Crawford, Prichard, Alabama (Tue 12/7/99 10:23 AM) Prize:
 Love 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? 
Answer: Click
Here
The most common incorrect answer: Dorothy West
|
Winner:
Michael N. (Tue 12/7/99 9:59 AM) Prize:
 Civil 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? 
Answer: Click Here
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:
 Title:
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.
Photo of 1965
Playbill
Accidentally Removed |
Answer: Click Here
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:
 Whispers 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?
 Answer:
Click here
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:
 Fertile 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?
 Answer: Click Here
The most common incorrect answers:
Ntozake Shange
|
Winner:
Joy Masseaux, Jamaica Plain, MA
(Sun 7/11/99 11:45 PM)
Prize:
 Title:
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? 
Answer: Click Here
The most common incorrect answers:
Ernest Gaines
|
Winner:
Deborah Blacknall, Greensboro, N.C. (Wed, 6/7/99 10:53 AM)
Prize:
 Soul
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? 
Answer: Click Here
The most common incorrect answers:
Malcolm X, Nathan McCall
|
Winner:
Kristin Matlock, from Durham, North Carolina (Wed, 5/20/99 2:18 PM)
Prize:
 Tough 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?
Answer: Click
Here
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:
 Title:
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 |
