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42 Books Published by The New Press on Our Site — Book Cover Mosaic
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindnessby Michelle Alexander
The New Press (Jan 07, 2020)
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Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness.
With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status, even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness.
In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action."
Thick: And Other Essaysby Tressie McMillan Cottom
The New Press (Jan 08, 2019)
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As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister)
"Thick is sure to become a classic." —The New York Times Book Review
In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—is unapologetically "thick" deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Moore).
This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies.
Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts).
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movementby Janet Dewart Bell
The New Press (May 08, 2018)
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A "New & Noteworthy" selection of The New York Times
One of Book Riot's "29 Amazing New Books Coming in 2018"
"There is a memoir or autobiography in each of these women. But they are perhaps too modest to lift themselves up, which is why Bell's book is so valuable." —The Washington Post
A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights—many nearly lost to history—from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women were generally not in the headlines; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels of the movement, they remain mostly invisible to the larger public. Beyond Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and Dorothy Height, most Americans, black and white alike, would be hard-pressed to name other leaders at the community, local, and national levels.
In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles for justice that resulted in profound social change, stories that remain important and relevant today.
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, Lighting the Fires of Freedom is a vital document for understanding the Civil Rights Movement and an enduring testament to the vitality of women's leadership during one of the most dramatic periods of American history.
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Lawby Sherrilyn A. Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson
The New Press (Mar 06, 2018)
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A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just Mercy This blisteringly candid discussion of the American dilemma in the age of Trump brings together the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the former attorney general of the United States, a bestselling author and death penalty lawyer, and a star professor for an honest conversation the country desperately needs to hear. Drawing on their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these leading lights of the legal profession and the fight for racial justice talk about the importance of reclaiming the racial narrative and keeping our eyes on the horizon as we work for justice in an unjust time. Covering topics as varied as "the commonality of pain," "when lawyers are heroes," and the concept of an "equality dividend" that is due to people of color for helping America brand itself internationally as a country of diversity and acceptance, Ifill, Lynch, Stevenson, and Thompson also explore topics such as "when did �public' become a dirty word" (hint, it has something to do with serving people of color), "you know what Jeff Sessions is going to say," and "what it means to be a civil rights lawyer in the age of Trump." Building on Stevenson's hugely successful Just Mercy, Lynch's national platform at the Justice Department, Ifill's role as one of the leading defenders of civil rights in the country, and the occasion of Thompson's launch of a new center on race, inequality, and the law at the NYU School of Law, A Perilous Path will speak loudly and clearly to everyone concerned about America's perpetual fault line.
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoirby Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The New Press (Mar 06, 2018)
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A New York Times Editors' Choice
"A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit."
—Ariel Dorfman, The New York Times Book Review
"Wrestling with the Devil is a powerful testament to the courage of Ng?g? and his fellow prisoners and validation of the hope that an independent Kenya would eventually emerge."
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The Ng?g? of Wrestling with the Devil called not just for adding a bit of color to the canon's sagging shelf, but for abolition and upheaval."
An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ng?g? wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kam?t? Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ng?g?—the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow—decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the Cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ng?g?'s account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art.
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straitsby Tiya Miles
The New Press (Oct 03, 2017)
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Finalist for the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Nominated for the 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)
A New York Times ?Editor's Choice" selection
Winner of 2018 Merle Curti Social History Award
Co-Winner of the 2018 James A. Rawley Prize
A Michigan Notable Book of 2018
A Booklist Editors' Choice Title for 2017
?If many Americans imagine slavery essentially as a system in which black men toiled on cotton plantations, Miles upends that stereotype several times over."
?New York Times Book Review
?[Miles] has compiled documentation that does for Detroit what the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Writers' Project slave narratives did for other regions, primarily the South."
?Washington Post
?[Tiya Miles] is among the best when it comes to blending artful storytelling with an unwavering sense of social justice."
?Martha S. Jones in The Chronicle of Higher Education
?A necessary work of powerful, probing scholarship."
?Publisher Weekly (starred)
?A book likely to stand at the head of further research into the problem of Native and African-American slavery in the north country."
?Kirkus Reviews
From the MacArthur genius grant winner, a beautifully written and revelatory look at the slave origins of a major northern American city
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit.
In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree—both native and African American—in the frontier outpost of Detroit, a place wildly remote yet at the center of national and international conflict. Skillfully assembling fragments of a distant historical record, Miles introduces new historical figures and unearths struggles that remained hidden from view until now. The result is fascinating history, little explored and eloquently told, of the limits of freedom in early America, one that adds new layers of complexity to the story of a place that exerts a strong fascination in the media and among public intellectuals, artists, and activists.
A book that opens the door on a completely hidden past, The Dawn of Detroit is a powerful and elegantly written history, one that completely changes our understanding of slavery's American legacy.
Don't Believe The Hype: Still Fighting Cultural Misinformation about African Americansby Farai Chideya
The New Press (Aug 01, 2017)
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First published in 1995, Farai Chideya's Don't Believe the Hype became an instant classic, filling an enormous gap in what was then an emergent field and going on to sell more than 50,000 copies. Chideya exposed the various ways that media bias created and upheld inaccurate and harmful stereotypes about African Americans, and she succeeded in debunking those myths with an accessible, thoroughly researched handbook, its title inspired by the famous Public Enemy song.Now, after achieving national fame as a respected commentator on NPR, CNN, and ABC News, Chideya returns to this seminal text, offering a completely revised and updated twentieth-anniversary edition. She once again exposes the persistent reality of media bias against black America, even as new media formats proliferate and diversity rises in newsrooms, on television, and in film. This new edition highlights biased news coverage of black athletes, disaster victims, and police violence, among other subjects, with updated statistical information offering accurate counterpoints. Now a new generation of readers can benefit from a fresh, frank approach to looking at race, media, power, and culture.
Chokehold: Policing Black Menby Paul Butler
The New Press (Jul 11, 2017)
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?The most readable and provocative account of the consequences of the war on drugs since Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow . . . ."
?The New York Times Book Review
Cops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread—all with the support of judges and politicians.
In his no-holds-barred style, Butler, whose scholarship has been featured on 60 Minutes, uses new data to demonstrate that white men commit the majority of violent crime in the United States. For example, a white woman is ten times more likely to be raped by a white male acquaintance than be the victim of a violent crime perpetrated by a black man. Butler also frankly discusses the problem of black on black violence and how to keep communities safer—without relying as much on police.
Chokehold powerfully demonstrates why current efforts to reform law enforcement will not create lasting change. Butler's controversial recommendations about how to crash the system, and when it's better for a black man to plead guilty—even if he's innocent—are sure to be game-changers in the national debate about policing, criminal justice, and race relations.
Black Moses: A Novelby Alain Mabanckou
The New Press (Jun 06, 2017)
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A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa" (Les Inrockuptibles) from "Africa's Samuel Beckett . . . one of the continent's greatest living writers" (The Guardian).
It's not easy being Tokumisa Nzambe po Mose yamoyindo abotami namboka ya Bakoko. There's that long name of his for a start, which means, "Let us thank God, the black Moses is born on the lands of the ancestors." Most people just call him Moses. Then there's the orphanage where he lives, run by a malicious political stooge, Dieudonn� Ngoulmoumako, and where he's terrorized by two fellow orphans—the twins Songi-Songi and Tala-Tala.
But after Moses exacts revenge on the twins by lacing their food with hot pepper, the twins take Moses under their wing, escape the orphanage, and move to the bustling port town of Pointe-Noire, where they form a gang that survives on petty theft. What follows is a funny, moving, larger-than-life tale that chronicles Moses's ultimately tragic journey through the Pointe-Noire underworld and the politically repressive world of Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s and 80s.
Mabanckou's vivid portrayal of Moses's mental collapse echoes the work of Hugo, Dickens, and Brian DePalma's Scarface, confirming Mabanckou's status as one of our great storytellers. Black Moses is a vital new extension of his cycle of Pointe-Noire novels that stand out as one of the grandest, funniest, fictional projects of our time.
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economyby Tressie McMillan Cottom
The New Press (Feb 28, 2017)
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As seen on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the "powerful, chilling tale" (Carol Anderson) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality
"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."
—The New York Times Book Review
More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges.In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today. McMillan Cottom discloses the shrewd recruitment and marketing strategies that these schools deploy and explains how, despite the well-documented predatory practices of some and the campus closings of others, ending for-profit colleges won't end the vulnerabilities that made them the fastest growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century. And she doesn't stop there. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, McMillan Cottom delivers a comprehensive view of postsecondary for-profit education by illuminating the experiences of the everyday people behind the shareholder earnings, congressional battles, and student debt disasters. The relatable human stories in Lower Ed—from mothers struggling to pay for beauty school to working class guys seeking "good jobs" to accomplished professionals pursuing doctoral degrees—illustrate that the growth of for-profit colleges is inextricably linked to larger questions of race, gender, work, and the promise of opportunity in America. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed tells the story of the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of a for-profit education. It is a story about broken social contracts; about education transforming from a public interest to a private gain; and about all Americans and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakeningby Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The New Press (Oct 04, 2016)
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One of Oprah.com's "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine's "10 Titles to Pick up Now."
?Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time. "
?Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Guardian, Best Books of 2016.
?Every page ripples with a contagious faith in education and in the power of literature to shape the imagination and scour the conscience."
?The Washington Post
From one of the world's greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voice as a novelist at Makerere University in Uganda Birth of a Dream Weaver charts the very beginnings of a writer's creative output. In this wonderful memoir, Kenyan writer Ng?g? wa Thiong'o recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being born—under the shadow of the rivalries, intrigues, and assassinations of the Cold War. Haunted by the memories of the carnage and mass incarceration carried out by the British colonial-settler state in his native Kenya but inspired by the titanic struggle against it, Ng?g?, then known as James Ngugi, begins to weave stories from the fibers of memory, history, and a shockingly vibrant and turbulent present. What unfolds in this moving and thought-provoking memoir is simultaneously the birth of one of the most important living writers—lauded for his "epic imagination" (Los Angeles Times)—the death of one of the most violent episodes in global history, and the emergence of new histories and nations with uncertain futures.
Black Power 50by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi Woodward
The New Press (Sep 06, 2016)
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Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In the United States, the movement spread like wildfire: high school and college youth organized black student unions; educators created black studies programs; Black Power conventions gathered thousands of people from all walks of life; and books, journals, bookstores, and publishing companies spread Black Power messages and imagery throughout the country and abroad.The Black Arts Movement inspired the creation of some eight hundred black theaters and cultural centers, where a generation of writers and artists forged a new and enduring cultural vision.Black Power 50 includes original interviews with key figures from the movement, essays from today's leading Black Power scholars, and over one hundred stunning images, offering a beautiful and compelling introduction to this pivotal movement.
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schoolsby Monique W. Morris
The New Press (Mar 29, 2016)
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"A powerful indictment of the cultural beliefs, policies, and practices that criminalize and dehumanize Black girls in America, coupled with thoughtful analysis and critique of the justice work that must be done at the intersection of race and gender." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is a discussion about the experiences of Black girls across the country whose intricate lives are misunderstood, highly judged—by teachers, administrators, and the justice system—and degraded by the very institutions charged with helping them flourish. This book shows how, despite obstacles, stigmas, stereotypes, and despair, Black girls still find ways to breathe remarkable dignity into their lives in classrooms, juvenile facilities, and beyond.
The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoirby Alain Mabanckou
The New Press (Mar 01, 2016)
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Alain Mabanckou left Congo in 1989, at the age of twenty-two, not to return until a quarter of a century later. When he finally came back to Pointe-Noire, a bustling port town on Congo's southeastern coast, he found a country that in some ways had changed beyond recognition: the cinema where, as a child, Mabanckou gorged on glamorous American culture had become a Pentecostal temple, and his secondary school has been renamed in honor of a previously despised colonial ruler.
But many things remain unchanged, not least the swirling mythology of Congolese culture that still informs everyday life in Pointe-Noire. Now a decorated writer and an esteemed professor at UCLA, Mabanckou finds he can only look on as an outsider in the place where he grew up. As he delves into his childhood, into the life of his departed mother, and into the strange mix of belonging and absence that informs his return to Congo, his work recalls the writing of V.S. Naipaul and Andr� Aciman, offering a startlingly fresh perspective on the pain of exile, the ghosts of memory, and the paths we take back home.
Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, And The Battlefield Of Aidsby Martin Duberman
The New Press (Mar 18, 2014)
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In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications?among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill.
Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Hold Tight Gently is the celebrated historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic.
Callen, a white gay Midwesterner who had moved to New York, became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of willful and homophobic denial under the Reagan administration; Hemphill, an African American gay man, contributed to the black gay and lesbian scene in Washington, D.C., with poetry of searing intensity and introspection.
A profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, identity, and the politics of AIDS activism beyond ACT UP, Hold Tight Gently captures both a generation struggling to cope with the deadly disease and the extraordinary refusal of two men to give in to despair.
Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-first Centuryby Monique W. Morris
The New Press (Jan 28, 2014)
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Black Statsa comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americansis an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices, and the arts to marriage, voting habits, and green jobs, the contextualized material in this book will better attune readers to telling trends while challenging commonly held, yet often misguided, perceptions.
A compilation that at once highlights measures of incredible progress and enumerates the disparate impacts of social policies and practices, this book is a critical tool for advocates, educators, and policy makers. Black Stats offers indispensable information that is sure to enlighten discussions and provoke debates about the quality of Black life in the United States todayand help chart the path to a better future.
There are less than a quarter-million Black public school teachers in the U.S.—representing just 7 percent of all teachers in public schools.
Approximately half of the Black population in the United States lives in neighborhoods that have no White residents. In the five years before the Great Recession, the number of Black-owned businesses in the United States increased by 61 percent.
A 2010 study found that 41 percent of Black youth feel that rap music videos should be more political. There are no Black owners or presidents of an NFL franchise team. 78 percent of Black Americans live within 30 miles of a coal-fired power plant, compared with 56 percent of White Americans.
The Cushion In The Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm's Wayby Alice Walker
The New Press (Apr 09, 2013)
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This gorgeous collection gathers Alice Walker's wide-ranging meditations?many of them previously unpublished?on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies. For the millions of her devoted fans, and for readers of Walker's bestselling 2006 book, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, here is a brand new "gift of words" that invites readers on a journey of political awakening and spiritual insight.
The Cushion in the Road finds the Pulitzer Prize?winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist at the height of her literary powers, sharing fresh vantages and a deepening engagement with our world. Walker writes that "we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality if we are truly alive," and the pieces in The Cushion in the Road illustrate this idea beautifully. Visiting themes she has addressed throughout her career?including racism, Africa, Palestinian solidarity, and Cuba?as well as addressing emergent issues, such as the presidency of Barack Obama on health care, Walker explores her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world.
Rich with humor and wisdom, and informed by Walker's unique eye for the details of human and natural experience, The Cushion in the Road will please longtime Walker fans as well as those who are new to her work.
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems)by Alice Walker
The New Press (Apr 02, 2013)
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"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a ?lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times), Walker imbues her poetry with evocative images, fresh language, anger, forgiveness, and profound wisdom. Casting her poetic eye toward history, politics, and nature, as well as to world figures such as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, she is indeed a "muse for our times" (Amy Goodman).
By attentively chronicling the conditions of human life today, Walker shows, as ever, her deep compassion, profound spirituality, and necessary political commitments. The poems in The World Will Follow Joy remind us of our human capacity to come together and take action, even in our troubled political times. Above all, the gems in this collection illuminate what it means to live in our world today.
The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walkerby Alice Walker
The New Press (Nov 08, 2011)
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Published to stellar praise, The World Has Changed boasts revelatory conversations between Walker and other literary and cultural icons—including Howard Zinn, Pema Ch�dr�n, Claudia Tate, Margo Jefferson, William R. Ferris, and Paula Giddings—and illuminates the heart and mind of one of the world's most celebrated living writers. Carefully framed and contextualized through an introduction by literary scholar Rudolph P. Byrd, the book also includes a thorough chronology of Walker's life and work.
The World Has Changed is a delightful addition to the Alice Walker canon that will thrill and engage readers for years to come.
Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11by Caryl Phillips
The New Press (Aug 09, 2011)
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Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling author Caryl Phillips has written about and explored the experience of migration for more than thirty years through his spellbinding and award-winning novels, plays, and essays.
Now, in a magnificent and beautifully written new book, Phillips reflects on the shifting notions of race, culture, and belonging before and after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Color Me English opens with an inspired story from his boyhood, a poignant account of a shared sense of isolation he felt with the first Muslim boy who joined his school. Phillips then turns to his years living and teaching in the United States, including a moving account of the day the twin towers fell. We follow him across Europe and through Africa while he grapples with making sense of colonial histories and contemporary migrations—engaging with legendary African, African American, and international writers from James Baldwin and Richard Wright to Chinua Achebe and Ha Jin who have aspired to see themselves and their own societies more clearly.
A truly transnational reflection on race and culture in a post-9/11 world, Color Me English is a stunning collection of writing that is at once timeless and urgent.
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Centuryby Dorothy Roberts
The New Press (Jul 05, 2011)
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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial.
Moving from an account of the evolution of race—proving that it has always been a mutable and socially defined political division supported by mainstream science—Roberts delves deep into the current debates, interrogating the newest science and biotechnology, interviewing its researchers, and exposing the political consequences obscured by the focus on genetic difference. Fatal Invention is a provocative call for us to affirm our common humanity.
12 Angry Men: True Stories Of Being A Black Man In America Todayby Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey
The New Press (Jan 11, 2011)
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Called a book that "is factual yet reads like a novel" on the Huffington Post, 12 Angry Men reveals some pointed truths about our nation as a dozen African American authors from across the United States tell their personal stories of being racially profiled.
In this "extraordinarily compelling" (Publishers Weekly) book, we hear tales of injustice from Joe Morgan, a former Major League Baseball MVP; Paul Butler, a federal prosecutor; Kent, a devoted father hauled into central booking for trespassing and loitering when he visits his mother's housing project; Solomon Moore, a former criminal justice reporter for the New York Times; and King Downing, a former head of the ACLU's racial profiling initiative.
In an era of contentious debate about controversial police practices and, more broadly, the significance of implications of race throughout American life, 12 Angry Men is an urgent, moving, and timely book that exposes "a serious impediment to the collective American Dream of a colorblind society" (Pittsburgh Urban Media).
Say It Loud: Great Speeches On Civil Rights And African American Identityby Catherine Ellis and Stephen Drury Smith
The New Press (Aug 31, 2010)
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Say It Loud adds new depth to the oral and audio history of the modern struggle for racial equality and civil rights—focusing directly on the pivotal questions black America grappled with during the past four decades of resistance. With recordings unearthed from libraries and sound archives, and made widely available here for the first time, Say It Loud includes powerful speeches by Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., James Cone, Toni Morrison, Colin Powell, and many others.
Bringing the rich immediacy of the spoken word to a vital historical and intellectual tradition, Say It Loud illuminates the diversity of ideas and arguments pulsing through the black freedom movement.
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novelby Alice Walker
The New Press (May 06, 2008)
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From the author the New York Times Book Review calls "a lavishly gifted writer," this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence. Possessing the Secret of Joy, out of print for a number of years, was the first novel to deal with this controversial topic and managed to do so in a manner that Cosmopolitan called "masterful, honorable, and unforgettable storytelling." The New Press is proud to bring the book back into print with a new preface by the author addressing the book's initial reception and the changed attitudes toward female genital mutilation that have come about in part because of this book.
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darknessby Alice Walker
The New Press (Nov 21, 2007)
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A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called "stunningly insightful" and "a book that will inspire hope" by Publishers Weekly.Drawing equally on Walker's spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change.The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room-only crowds and standing ovations. Walker's clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly "a light in darkness"—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968by Allon Schoener
The New Press (Oct 30, 2007)
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Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the red-hot real estate market of Manhattan, it was a metaphor for African American culture at its richest. Allon Schoener's celebrated Harlem on My Mind is the classic record of Harlem life during some of the most exciting and turbulent years of its history, a beautiful—and poignant—reminder of a powerful moment in African America history.
Including the work of some of Harlem's most treasured photographers, among them James Van Der Zee and Gordon Parks, there are photographs of Harlem's literary lights—Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Richard Wright; its politicians—Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and its musicians—Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday. The book also includes the photographs of the everyday folk who gave life to this legendary community.
These extraordinary images are juxtaposed with articles from publications such as the New York Times and the Amsterdam News, which have helped to record the life of one of New York's most memorialized neighborhoods.
Originally published in 1969 as the catalogue to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's controversial exhibition of the same name, Harlem on My Mind is as compelling today as it was when first published.
"In Harlem on My Mind one witnesses it all—the joys, sorrows, and triumphs of this mecca of black achievement. Along with the visual excitement are fascinating articles that reveal Harlem as it was in the early 1900s, as it is today, and what one might expect from it in the future. It is an important contribution, not only to the history of Harlem, but to the history of America." —Gordon Parks "Harlem on My Mind represents months and years of research that would be impossible to duplicate today. It should be considered a history of the times; it is important for the present generation and coming generations. . . . No household, school, or library should be without it." —James Van Der Zee
After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrinaby David Dante Troutt
The New Press (Sep 30, 2007)
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Now in paperback on the second anniversary of Katrina, one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Goast tragedy.
Available for the first time in paperback after selling out its hardcover print run and being frequently named among the best of the Katrina books, After the Storm offers "angry, learned, focused, readable, [and] essential" writing, according to Library Journal, in which contributors face what Ebony magazine calls "questions about poverty, housing, governmental decision-making, crime, community development and political participation, which were raised in the aftermath of the storm."
Featuring the work of leading African American intellectuals, including Derrick Bell, Charles Ogletree, Michael Eric Dyson, Cheryl Harris, Devon Carbado, Adolph Reed, Sheryll Cashin, and Clement Alexander Price, After the Storm suggests "precisely what we must do if we are to both save the planet and create the great towns and cities that we can proudly bequeath to future generations" (Socialist Review).
The Darker Nations: A People's History Of The Third World (New Press People's History)by Vijay Prashad
The New Press (Jan 01, 2007)
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darknessby Alice Walker
The New Press (Oct 30, 2006)
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A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called ?stunningly insightful" and ?a book that will inspire hope" by Publishers Weekly.
Drawing equally on Walker's spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change.
The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room?only crowds and standing ovations. Walker's clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly "a light in darkness"—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racismby James W. Loewen
The New Press (Sep 29, 2005)
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The explosive story of racial exclusion in the north, from the American Book Award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me
As American as apple pie:
• Most suburbs in the United States were originally sundown towns.
• As part of the deepening racism that swept through the United States after 1890, town after town outside the traditional South became intentionally all-white, evicting their black populations with tactics that ranged from intimidation to outright violence.
• From Myakka City, Florida, to Kennewick, Washington, the nation is dotted with thousands of all-white towns that are (or were until recently) all-white on purpose. Sundown towns can be found in almost every state.
"Don't let the sun go down on you in this town." We equate these words with the Jim Crow South but, in a sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, award-winning and bestselling author James W. Loewen demonstrates that strict racial exclusion was the norm in American towns and villages from sea to shining sea for much of the twentieth century.
Weaving history, personal narrative, and hard-nosed analysis, Loewen shows that the sundown town was—and is—an American institution with a powerful and disturbing history of its own, told here for the first time. In Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, sundown towns were created in waves of violence in the early decades of the twentieth century, and then maintained well into the contemporary era.
Sundown Towns redraws the map of race relations, extending the lines of racial oppression through the backyard of millions of Americans—and lobbing an intellectual hand grenade into the debates over race and racism today.
Islam Explainedby Tahar Ben Jelloun
The New Press (Apr 24, 2004)
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In an accessible question-and-answer format, Islam Explained clarifies the main tenets of Islam, the major landmarks in Islamic history, and the current politics of Islamic fundamentalism. The book also sheds light on the key words that have come to dominate the media—terrorist, crusade, jihad, fundamentalist, fatwa—offering lucid and balanced explanations, not only for youngsters but also for the general reader.Islam Explained is at once an essential introduction to one of the world's great religions and a cry for tolerance and understanding in deeply troubled times.
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novelby Tahar Ben Jelloun
The New Press (May 01, 2002)
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An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the 1994 Prix Mahgreb. Ben Jelloun crafts a horrific real-life narrative into fiction to tell the appalling story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies under the most harrowing conditions. Not until September 1991, under international pressure, was Hassan's regime forced to open these desert hellholes. A handful of survivors—living cadavers who had shrunk by over a foot in height—emerged from the six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held underground for decades.Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun eschewed the traditional novel format and wrote a book in the simplest of language, reaching always for the most basic of words, the most correct descriptions. The result is a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.
One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American Cityby Ron Howell
The New Press (Mar 01, 2000)
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Using New York City as a microcosm of the American economy, One Hundred Jobs paints an original and revealing portrait of work in all its differences and extremes. Veteran journalist Ron Howell has interviewed one hundred workers to find out what they do all day, how they do it, how they are compensated, and how they view their working lives. These portraits are accompanied by statistics such as salary, health care benefits, average hours of work per week, and educational background, along with Pulitzer Prize winner Ozier Muhammad's photographs of each employee at his or her job site.From locksmith to landlord, dermatologist to magician, hair braider to World Wide Web coordinator, the profiles in One Hundred Jobs demonstrate the remarkable diversity of American workers today, highlighting the differences in expectation and experience across the employment spectrum.
Racism Explained to My Daughterby Tahar Ben Jelloun
The New Press (Jun 01, 1999)
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In the tradition of Marion Wright Edelman's The Measure of Our Success, a bestselling author speaks frankly with his daughter about racism.
The Monkey Suit: And Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justiceby David Dante Troutt
The New Press (Apr 01, 1999)
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The Monkey Suit is David Dante Troutt's "impressive" debut (Kirkus), a collection of short stories inspired by historic legal cases involving African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Monkey Suit addresses issues ranging from Jim Crow segregation ordinances to warrantless private property searches in stories the Washington Post calls "quietly devastating." Troutt brilliantly combines legal scholarship with literature in a book that Claude Brown calls "truly a work of genius."
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedomby Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller
The New Press (Oct 01, 1998)
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Listen to the Introduction to this moving and important work.
Early in the 1930s interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project combed the American South in search of former slaves. The interviewers spoke with hundreds of elderly people about their experiences in slavery, and preserved the voices of some of them on primitive recording devices. The nearly-inaudible recordings were placed in the Library of Congress, unheard by the general public, but now, remastered with the aid of modern technology, they offer the only known opportunity to hear the voices of former slaves.
Editors: Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Marc Favreau
Publisher: New Press
Date Published: September 1998
Format: Paperback And Cassette
A book-and-tape set featuring the only known original recordings of interviews with former slaves, to be aired on public radio simultaneous with publication. Dramatic readings by prominent African-Americans of untapped interviews complement to incomparable recordings, to create a full, firsthand picture of African-American life before emancipation. 50 b&w photos.
Millions of Americans have read works of literature, from The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass to Beloved that attempt to portray life under slavery. But only a few people alive today have heard the actual voices of men and women who experienced those dark days firsthand.
Now, for the first time, historic recordings of former slaves recounting their own experiences of slavery are made available to the American public in Remembering Slavery. Early in the 1930s, interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project combed the South in search of former slaves. The interviewers spoke with hundreds of elderly people about their experiences in slavery and preserved the voices of some on primitive recording devices.
The recordings were placed in the Library of Congress and have never been heard by the wider public. Now, re-mastered using state-of-the-art equipment, the recordings offer the only known opportunity to hear the voices of former slaves. This groundbreaking book-and-tape package of interviews and transcripts includes more than a dozen of the only known original recordings of people who actually experienced enslavement. They remember relationships between master and slave; survival techniques in the face of hardship; family life, marriage, and childhood under slavery; experiences behind Confederate and Union lines during the Civil War; and, finally, the coming of freedom. Dramatic readings by prominent African Americans of untapped interviews complement the incomparable recordings, to create a full, firsthand picture of African American life before Emancipation. The reading and the primary source recordings edited by Smithsonian Productions was broadcast nationally on public radio in the fall of 1998.
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Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)by Michele Wallace
The New Press (Sep 01, 1998)
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A Village Voice Best Book "spirited debate among African American artists and cultural critics about issues from essentialism to sexuality"
Corruptionby Tahar Ben Jelloun
The New Press (Nov 01, 1996)
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Casablanca and Tangier provide the backdrops for Corruption, and erotic tale of morality about Mourad, the last honest man in Morocco. After a lifetime of resistance, Mourad finally gives in to the demands of his materialistic wife and accepts "commissions" for his work: just one envelope stuffed with cash, then another. Ben Jelloun's compelling novel evokes the dangers of succumbing to the daily temptations of modern life, as Mourad lives the consequences of betraying his existence.
Corruption (International Fiction)by Tahar Ben Jelloun
The New Press (Oct 01, 1995)
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Much to the chagrin of his boss, wife, and colleagues, scrupulously moral Mourad refuses to accept "commissions" for his work, until overwhelming pressures make him give in, with disastrous results.
Art on My Mind: Visual Politicsby bell hooks
The New Press (Jul 01, 1995)
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In Art on My Mind, bell hooks, a leading cultural critic, responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting, and criticizing art and aesthetics in an art world increasingly concerned with identity politics. Always concerned with the liberatory black struggle, hooks positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be an empowering and revolutionary force within the black community.
Up South: Stories, Studies, and Letters of African American Migrationsby Malaika Adero
The New Press (Apr 01, 1994)
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Perhaps the greatest migration in America's history is the early twentieth-century movement of African Americans from the southern states to the urban Northeast and Midwest. For the first time ever, Up South captures the totality of this pivotal black experience in a single volume. Including photographs, letters, and turn-of-the-century items in the Chicago Defender, Crisis, and Opportunity, as well as writing by Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Arna Bontemps, Mary McLeod Bethune, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Up South is a moving and eye-opening anthology of African American literature, scholarship, and journalism from the first half of this century.
Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Filmby Julie Dash
The New Press (Nov 01, 1992)
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In the winter of 1992, nearly one hundred years after motion pictures were invented, the first nationally distributed feature by an African American woman was released in the United States. The film tells the story of an African American sea-island family preparing to come to the mainland at the turn of the century. In her richly textured, highly visual, lyrical portrayal of the day of the departure, Julie Dash evokes the details of a persisting African culture and the tensions between tradition and assimilation. Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman's Film, which includes Dash's complete screenplay, describes the story of her extraordinary sixteen-year struggle to complete the project.


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The Granite and Woodlands Discovery Trail links Hyden and Wave Rock to Norseman and explores one of the world's greatest untouched temperate woodlands, with 16 designated stopping places. Download a map and guide here.
Day 1: Hyden – The Breakaways Campsite (137 kilometres/2-3 hours)
Marvel at Wave Rock, an amazing feat of nature that was millions of years in the making, before hitting the dirt road and heading east towards Norseman. Much of the Granite and Woodlands Discovery Trail is gravel, but it is suitable for two wheel drives and caravans.
Take in the expansive views of sandy heathland and spring wildflowers as you pass along the Holland Track, which gives way to nickel and gold mining land around Forrestania Plots. Keep a look out for bush turkeys, dingos or some of the more elusive native animals such as honey and pigmy possums, which are sometimes seen around Grevillea Hill. From here the landscape changes to mallee woodland and eucalypts. Explore the rocky outcrops and cliffs of The Breakaways before rolling out your swag at the campground for a night under an amazing star-filled sky.
Day 2: The Breakaways Campsite – Norseman (165 kilometres/2-3 hours)
You'll see eucalypts, sandy heathlands, hakea and flame grevillea as you set off east towards Mermaid Rock. This is a great spot for a picnic or a walk along the marked trail. Take in the vista of open woodland and salmon gum trees at Lake Johnson and Lake Viewpoint.
Continue to Disappointment Rock and walk the two-kilometre trail around and over the outcrop. The next stretch passes through an ever-changing landscape, from mallee woodland to mallee scrub, sandy shrub and stands of eucalypts. Rolling rocky hills and abandoned mine shafts dot the landscape on the way to Lake Cowan. The Woodlands Walk in Norseman completes the trail. Spend some time exploring the mining heritage and salt lakes of Norseman.
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I am excited to announce my new ebook: The Dolphin Watcher's Guide to Southwest Florida.
I've been visiting Florida's wild bottlenose dolphins for many years. During that time, I have found some wonderful spots and had some incredible encounters. I finally decided to publish this book and share some of these special places with others.
Many people believe they must sign up for captive swim-with-dolphins programs in order to get themselves (or their children) close to these amazing animals. Those dolphins are usually kept in pools or large tanks. I've been watching wild dolphins with my family for more than 20 years, and I can tell you that is certainly not the case. Wild dolphin watching is easy — if you know where to look!
The Dolphin Watcher's Guide to Southwest Florida covers dozens of specific dolphin watching sites along the Florida Gulf Coast from Casey Key to Marco Island. There are both land-based and water-based locations included. The book also emphasizes how to watch dolphins safely and without doing harm. If you've always dreamed of spending time with free and wild dolphins, you will enjoy this guide.
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One week from today will mark Blink-182's first release as an unsigned artist in nearly 20 years. We were lucky enough to catch up with bassist/vocalist MARK HOPPUS after a particularly busy day in the studio finishing the tracks for their forthcoming EP Dogs Eating Dogs to ask him all about this next step in Blink-182's career, as well as get the lowdown on the end of his Fuse TV show Hoppus On Music and his thoughts on the Neighborhoods cover album currently circulating the internet.
INTERVIEW: Scott Heisel
What were you working on in the studio today?
Today, we were working on getting some songs ready to send to mix. Tom was recording some vocal ideas. I was finishing up all of my vocal parts. I played bass on a song. We're wrapping up the session and getting ready to turn it into mix, so we had to make all of the hard decisions today.
So kind of a smorgasbord of things to do?
Yeah. Just wrapping everything up, the last bits and pieces we've been working on for the last couple weeks.
So the EP is called Dogs Eating Dogs. What can you actually tell me about the songs?
I can tell you there's a song called "Dog Eating Dogs." There's a song called "Disaster," but that might change. There's a song called "The Day After Christmas" [now called "Boxing Day" –ed.] and it's this folky, acoustic-guitar thing. It's different than anything Blink have ever done. Travis played on this electronic drum kit behind it, so it's got this real kind of indie, strange, cool vibe to it. It's catchy and it makes you want to dance. "Dog Eating Dogs" is very punk rock [with] aggressive guitars. Tom wrote a song called "I Got My Eye On You" [now called "Pretty Little Girl" –ed.] that's about his wife; it's a love song. [The EP is] kind of all over the place, but we always like that.
So it's not necessarily a holiday-themed release?
Yeah. There are no holiday-themed songs. The closest it comes to being about the holidays is ["Boxing Day"] but it's actually kind of a sad lyric because the lyric is, "I'm empty like the day after Christmas," like the day after Christmas, all the anticipation and everything and you open presents on Christmas day, then the day after Christmas you're like, "Oh, I've got to wait another whole year. I've opened all of my stuff and there's nothing really to look forward to. It's all so far away now."
Are you just doing a digital version of it or will it exist in some physical format?
We're talking now to try to get it into a physical format, as well. Originally it was just going to be digital, but the response on Twitter and everything else I've seen has been that the people want something they can actually hold in their hands and collect, so we're talking with our management to figure out a way to get physical copies made. I don't think they'll be made in time for the Dec. 18 release date, but we're trying to get something in the future that people can actually have in their hands.
I'm sure you're aware that your vinyl became really a big deal in the past year or so, with a lot of your older records getting reissued. Then there was a delay on the Take Off Your Pants And Jacket LP that Mightier Than Sword Records was supposed to put out. A lot of kids are still wondering what happened with that, and I know you previously expressed that you were going to be looking into that. Do you have any more information for your fans that purchased that?
The company that we were working with that licensed the albums to come out on vinyl ran out of money, so, as I understood it, someone else was coming in and taking that over, but I haven't heard anything in months about it. It's honestly something that is out of our control and not something that we are happy about happening at all. It sucks.
Since you have fulfilled your contract with Interscope, do you have less control over your back catalog now than you did before? Are you going to be able to do your own deluxe reissues if you'd want to down the road, or is that something they completely control?
It's something that we would have to work with Interscope to do in the future. They still own the masters for those songs, and we didn't leave Interscope on bad terms or anything at all. It was just a parting of ways, and if we wanted to reissue some things, I'm sure they'd be cool with it and we'd figure out a way to make it happen.
What are Blink's plans for 2013?
We're continuing to write more what I hope is great music. It's exciting. It's really been good because the band is in a better place than we've ever been since we formed and a long time before we formed, and everybody is in the studio and we're working together as a band. For Neighborhoods, we'd get together and work on things and we'd split up, and it was kind of cool to do it that way because it gave us all space to do stuff. On this EP, we've spent a lot of time in the studio together, and I think that makes all the difference. Everyone's really excited and bouncing ideas off of one another and it seems like there are no barriers or anything standing in our way to do whatever we think is fun. That's all we want to do as a band anyway. When we started Blink, we had no ambitions or goals or anything other than writing music and having a good time doing it, and that's where we're back to now.


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North Fresno Rotary launched its original website in 2013 under the leadership of 2013 President Deborah Christiansen and Peter Fortuna. The project was started by North Fresno Rotarians Doris Blanton and Jeff Harpain. During this first year www.northfresnorotary.org was used to support the Pancake Breakfast at Fig Garden Village and the First Swim for Change event.
In 2014 President Ralph Boyijian oversaw the continued development of the website project. During President Boyijian's term www.northfresnorotary.org regularly had over 1,000K visitor in a week and became a valuable tool to recruit and promote the mission of North Fresno Rotary. In 2014 North Fresno Rotary added new members who joined due in part to North Fresno Rotary's growing online presence.
In 2015 President Bernadette Hanson created a strong social media network by incorporating Facebook and Twitter into www.northfresnorotary.org. During President's Hansen's term North Fresno Rotary garnered over 800 Twitter followers and 70 Facebook likes. By the end of her term the amount of visitors to www.northfresnorotary.org; forced the club to relaunched the site with enhanced features like the iCal event application and behind the scene improvements for mobile devices.


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Seven Sisters Post Daily ePaper
Seven Sisters Post was an English Language Newspaper published from India. It was Guwahati where it started its publication on November 11, 2011, under the control of Saradha Printing and Publications Pvt. Ltd.Seven Sisters Post ePaper core objective is to cover all the important news from north-eastern India. It also published a supplement on every Sunday which mainly covers interesting topics for readers like poetry, essays, stories and creative writing. Unfortunately, it could not work for long and got banned and its website also expired because of Saradha Group chit fund scam.
Seven Sisters Post Newspaper providing Asia, Assam, Business, Entertainment, Nation, North East, Sports, World News in English. You can read Latest and updated news by clicking this link sevensisterspost.com.
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What are some of the features my kalimba could have?
Sound Holes
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when the thumb covers and uncovers the sound
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Board-mounted Kalimbas
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Resonator Frames
Tunings and Tuning Charts
The most important feature of any kalimba is its tuning. Tuning is distinctly divided into two branches, as you will see in this Tuning discussion. The first branch exists because your kalimba will slowly go out of tune as you play it, and you will need to retune it periodically - say once a year for a seldom played kalimba, once a month for a moderately played kalimba, and once a day if you play hard and loud for hours daily with a drummer. The other branch of Tuning is all about choosing to put your kalimba into a different tuning to experiment with the way the kalimba will sound and feel with a whole new arrangement of notes.
Each kalimba we sell comes from the manufacturer in a standard tuning, which will work with most of the books that we write and sell. However, we also provide you the opportunity to select and order an alternative tuning, which may sound emotionally different to you, or which may be required if you need your kalimba for a special purpose - like playing along on a particular song with another instrument playing in a specific key.
Each kalimba we ship will come with a handsome tuning chart like the one shown here. It will clearly indicate the note that each tine should be tuned to, and many of the tuning charts also list the degree of the scale (ie, 1 is the root, 3- is the minor third). These tuning charts will help you understand how to play the kalimba and will help you get the most out of your kalimba experience.
Here's some friendly advice: If someone tries to sell you a kalimba that is not in tune, or if they claim that tuning doesn't matter, run the other way!
Select Color of Painted Tines
The Hugh Tracey kalimbas have traditionally come with select tines painted either red or blue. The color was not important, but which tines were painted was important - they served as reference posts as you played the kalimba, and also helped you transfer notes from tablature to your kalimba.
Kalimba Magic now paints the tines ourselves, meaning we can also spice it up a bit and give you the colors you want. Tine colors available are: red, blue, green, yellow, black, white, unpainted and custom (a combination of the available colors).
Select Style of Wood
Our best selling kalimbas, the Hugh Tracey kalimbas, are all made from the African hardwood kiaat. Kiaat presents in a variety of colors and grain styles. Usually it is a warm brown, but the sapwood is blond and it can have red, black, and blond highlights.
Our most popular kalimbas now offer a choice of wood style, including solid wood color, darkest, mostly blond, part blond, and interesting grain. Even if you are ordering a kalimba which does not have wood style as an option on the product page, you can still request that wood in the comments field.


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We're glad to announce that Evans Ogboi's "Songs From My Heart" Album has been nominated in the "Best Album" category of the Premier Gospel Awards.
Evans Ogboi has this to say
"It's incredible what the Lord is doing with this album. We were in Luton just recently and the pastor testified how the album has been on repeat in His car. We've also received several testimonies from different parts of the world. Lives are been changed. A nurse shared a testimony, how she plays the CD to mental patients and there is a great calm.
I glorify the God of my salvation who has given me the grace to be a blessing.
Thanks everyone for your prayers and constant support. Thanks to @premiergospel for this nomination".
"Songs From My Heart" is still very much available online for digital downloads and you can also order physical copies on Amazon. Also available in Lagos Nigeria at Laterna ventures.
For more information, visit www.evansogboiministries.com
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A simple way to mark who has attended and who hasn't
I won't build something you could run a massive conference on, but a little utility to check people off your attendee list could be useful.
I've had a few people suggest that they'd like a way just to quickly record who turned up and who didn't for future reference.
If you'd like this in Attending, add yourself here and when there's something to test, you'll get an email.
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Peace Posh
Ten medical workers have been killed in Afghanistan, possibly at the hands of the Taliban (though the Taliban are known for taking credit after an attack, even one they did not orchestrate).
The Bloomberg report notes this:
"They were not doctors. They were trying to spread the Christian religion in Karan wa Manjan," Mujahed [a Taliban spokesman] said. "And at the other hand they were spies. Our Mujahedeen people arrived there and tried to stop them, but they escaped and our Mujahedeen had to open fire on them."
The International Assistance Mission, which describes itself as an international Christian organization providing education and health aid in Afghanistan, said on its website it has been informed that 10 foreign and Afghan people, likely members of a team providing eye care in communities in Nuristan, were killed while returning to Kabul.
British Sky News reports that the Brit who was killed — Dr. Karen Woo — was not Christian. Her fiance says that instead she was a Humanist, and he highly doubts that she was preaching. That may be the case, but she was working from a Christian organization. And one which is quite careful to avoid offending its host country:
"Amongst others, we ascribe to the code that aid will not be used to further a particular political or religious standpoint. IAM fully commits to the standard that aid is given regardless of the race, creed or nationality of the recipients and without adverse distinction of any kind."
- International Assistance Mission Standards
Frankly, the ability to be a secular Humanist and work with an organization dedicated to serving others out of a love for Christ is not something that jihadists or Islamists can comprehend, and is not something they themselves would accept in their own organizations.
Islam, remember as Bush told us for 8 years, is a religion of peace. That might be the case if you are Muslim. If you aren't, it is anything but.


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What is improvised theater?
Well, from what I know/understood, it's a play that was not already prepared nor rehearsed, it is improvised on the spot as the name calls it. In fact, the topic of the play is a consensus from what the audience decides to watch. Yes, the audience comes to the theater, not knowing what the topic of the play is, sit together, start brainstorming words/topics/ideas, then come up with a title for their play.
During that play, the audience came up with a title "mish kil el Crystal belame3" (in English: not all crystals shine). This was the title we all agreed we want to watch. That's was it "point a la ligne" as we say in French, we decided the title, then 1,2,3… Music starts, lighting changes, and the actors start their play.
The play turned out to be a social story dealing with marriage and disappointments. If someone had missed the small brainstorming where the actors and the audience decided on the topic; they would have actually believed that this was a well rehearsed and structured play that took time and effort from the actors for weeks.
While I was watching the play, I was stunned by the performance of the actors; there was a huge synergy between them. When I get to think of the story now, I really think of it as a movie I watched, or a book I read. Everything seemed well rehearsed, the dialogue, the scenes, the lighting, the music… The music and lighting were two different actors, silently making important implications on the progress of the scenes and the play at large.
At the end of the play, there were ten minutes for questions and answers. I was curious to learn more about the synergy between the actors and the way they decided every scene instantly. One of the actors answered my question, and instead, placed a huge question mark in my head.
He told me that the improvised theater is similar to our lives. We do not write down the things we want to do, nor do we tell the people around us what to do. "Now do this; do that, or say this or that". Personally, his answer was like BANG to my ears. It really hit me. It was the first time I look at life like this- like a play.
Imagine that we wake up every day and decide that today's scene (which is part of our life's bigger play) will include the slow taxi driver on the way to work, the nagging client, and a nice glass of wine after a long day of stress. That would be interesting, wouldn't it? Then the next day, we would decide on another scene, and then day after day we start evolving our skills, and learning new techniques. That's a nice way to look at it!
Or wait a second, isn't that the way we live our lives; but now we have a cover for it, a new title to call it?!
(Or wait a second, isn't that the way I live my life; but now I have a cover for it, a new title to call it?! Improvisation)


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Hello Bella Gypsy fans! Today I'm giving you a look at the new goodies in the Scrap Orchard Market from Tabatha and Lena. From getting a head start on the celebrating the red, white and blue to pulling at some sweet heart strings, both new creations are really cute. I'm sure you'll love them. The pictures are linked to the store and there are some freebies at the end. Enjoy!
And the Graffiti that is a Free with Purchase:
Stars, Stripes and Smiles Kit:
Stars, Stripes and Sparkles Mini Kit that is a Free with Purchase:
And some freebies to match.
Journal Cards for Tender Heart:
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Be sure to check out all of the fun stuff that Tabatha and Lena have at the Market for you. Have a great week!


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"At Sweco you have personal responsibility for your own delivery and, within reasonable limits, there are ample opportunities to manage your time. It is common to work remotely and some people regularly work from home a day or two per week. I think it's valuable to work from home sometimes, since this gives me another focus. I try to set a good example by leaving the office at a reasonable hour, and I made a point of taking parental leave when my sons were born. I have also encouraged the staff to exercise together and take part in different fun runs, since I believe that physical activity is an important source of energy."
"With our decentralised business model, it's very much a matter of personal responsibility. Taking parental leave is a matter of course. We hire people in an age group where people often already have or plan to have children, and we encourage them to take the chance to spend time with their kids when they are small. Returning to their jobs is made easier by the fact that our work is project-based."
"Everyone has a different life situation and a stress threshold. I think it's important for each person to be aware of their own needs and try to define what adds to or subtracts from their energy. If your situation isn't working, you have to do something about it and make sure that your job is fun and fulfilling. We all need to take responsibility for our own balance."


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For my sons second birthday this last January, his Great-Aunt gave him a couple of wonderful books along with a years subscription to Wild Animal Baby. I had never heard of this magazine and to be honest, my first thought was, "A magazine for a 2 year old? That's nuts!" Oh how wrong I was! You see, my limited mind was in such a state that I simply couldn't imagine that a magazine, good for a 2 year old, could even exist.
Still, I waited for it to arrive. The day my son's first issue got here, I was so excited! It was simply darling! It was a type of card board book, and on the cover was a drawing of a sweet baby animal.
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You've read the first half of our best albums of the year, but in the final hours of 2014, we'll be listening to the music that really gets us going. This past year that meant Scandinavians of both the funky and bleak variety, an existential stoner from Montreal, and an aging punk with dance moves made for broadcast television. There were modern classic albums of sumptuous techno minimalism and the Philadelphia power chords that soundtracked the year. But it was a Canadian indie stalwart who after a decade of fine releases has finally, truly come in to his own – getting points from every one of our writers and solidly becoming Ca Va Cool's best album of 2014.
10. Ought – More Than Any Other Day
For a short while, Montreal's Ought have burnt brightly, if a little coldly. On their previous EP New Calm, they sounded like a strained David Byrne backed by Joy Division. Now, shouting life-affirming mantras like, "Today more than any other day I am excited to go grocery shopping!" seems be a staple of Ought's music. With their uplifting LP debut More Than Any Other Day, Ought firmly cement themselves as a positively unmissable act. Throughout both of their latest Toronto shows, Tim Beeler, who commits his talent to guitar and vocals, flailed and shimmied his way through their rhythmic and hypnotic set. Ought affirms that they are, as they put it, a "Habit", and their frantic energy is palpable in each note and groove they bring on More Than Any Other Day. — Anthony Boire
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Tags: Caribou, Future Islands, Iceage, Mac DeMarco, Ought, Owen Pallett, Perfume Genius, Spoon, The War on Drugs, Todd Terje
Primavera Sound is an overwhelming and vastly stimulating music pilgrimage made each year to Barcelona, Spain. Over two hundred bands across eleven stages and timetables that schedule sets well past five in the morning make the musical mecca a monstrous undertaking. Fortunately, 140,000 music lovers joined me over the course of the three main days and two satellite events to dance, sing, and even swim at the Parc del Fòrum and Poble Espanyol. The eclectic line-up saw everything from unabashed hip-hop to captivating folk ballads and electronic DJ sets. Though the scheduling and sheer volume of music can make it difficult, somehow we found time to sleep amid the madness.
Getting any rest was a predicament owing to the tension of anti-government protests consuming Barcelona's Plaça de Catalunya over the course of the week. Demonstrators voiced their concerns over the political and economic situation in Spain emphasizing the growing problem of unemployment amongst youth in the country. Primavera Sound also overlapped with the UEFA Cup Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United. As a result, the Saturday night schedule saw a two-hour gap in music as fans flooded the Llevant stage to watch the match on enormous screens. Whether or not you were a football fan, Barcelona's victory was instantly apparent as celebrations ripped through the streets and onto La Rambla well past the closing sets at Primavera that night.
Outside its musical aspects, Primavera held an array of meanings. The festival had its transformative qualities, for instance, the colour and amount of wristbands one donned was the founding rule of social hierarchies over the duration of the week. Wrist apparel, stickers, and swipe cards, clung, stuck, and hung off fans as they hustled across the festival grounds. The photo areas provided amusement by way of disgruntled Spanish photographers who complained of poor lighting throughout various sets. Ultimately, the true meaning dawned as I watched a communal dance break out during 'Summertime Clothes' by Animal Collective as they closed out the festival at 2AM on the San Miguel Stage. It is my hope that the following images, sounds, and commentary will help convey the innumerable untellable sentiments of Primavera Sound 2011 with you.
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Tags: Animal Collective, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Baths, Belle & Sebastian, Caribou, Cults, Deerhunter, Emeralds, Fleet Foxes, Gang Gang Dance, Glasser, James Blake, Primavera Sound, Sufjan Stevens, The Flaming Lips, The National, The Tallest Man on Earth, tUnE-yArDs, Twin Shadow, warpaint
Concluding our list of the best albums of the year, today we bring you our top ten. Though the airwaves are currently plagued by some kid from Stratford, Ontario with a terrible haircut, these are ten albums that will have a lifespan far beyond 2010. As always, thanks for reading, we hope you've enjoyed visiting our site this past year as much as we've enjoyed making it. See you in 2011.
10. The National – High Violet
Not much has changed for The National since Boxer, for better or worse. Matt Berninger still sings about drugs in an apathetic baritone, while Antony and Bryce Dessner layer drum hooks below guitar hooks below lugubrious three or four-note melodies. High Violet is a statement that the band have pretty much found their sound, and it's very good listening, though it isn't the high-water mark Boxer was. It features no 'Fake Empire'-style polyrhythms, nothing quite as quizzically heartbreaking as 'Brainy'; if anything, it's cleaner and slightly louder than earlier releases, adding a touch more of Springsteen by way of The Hold Steady. The epic thickness of their sound is as comforting as ever. Clap your headphones on, dial the volume up, and lie back for 48 minutes on a road trip through your mind. Who cares exactly what a lemonworld is? It sounds good. — Josh Penslar
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Tags: Arcade Fire, Basia Bulat, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Deerhunter, LCD Soundsystem, PS I Love You, The National, The Radio Dept., The Tallest Man on Earth
For the past six years, fellow Canadian music blog i(heart)music has polled Canadian music writers, bloggers, and photographers to publish its annual Hottest Bands in Canada list, summarizing, well, Canadian bands that are hot. This consensus building seems to have worked as top honours in past years were given to critically fawned-over acts such as the Rural Alberta Advantage, Chad VanGaalen, and Feist.
Since the only two rules stated are that bands submitted must be Canadian, however one defines that, and that they be hot, however one defines that, I put together my own criteria for my top 10 submission. I gauged the quality of the band's recorded output, in most cases their album release, along with the quality I saw and reverence I perceived towards the act's live show. I also took into consideration if I think they've entered or stayed at the height of their careers, and if we can expect big things to come. Most of all, this list answers the completely subjective question of which bands I found most exciting in 2010.
For more of a scientific consensus, check out the full list and for reviews throughout the year of pretty much every Canadian album of the moment, be sure to check out i(heart)music's feature section.
10. Basia Bulat
Canada's folk sweetheart continues to bring her orchestrated indie pop to the masses with the steady touring of her second album, Heart of My Own. A talented songwriter with a keen ear for classic melodies, Bulat has garnered a following larger than anticipated for her humble personality.
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Tags: Arcade Fire, Basia Bulat, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Crystal Castles, Diamond Rings, Japandroids, PS I Love You, Shad, Zeus
After my one year hiatus from this city, I returned to witness the fifth edition of the London Ontario Live Arts Festival, affectionately referred to as LOLA. Each September, the hipsters of the city descend on Victoria Park to witness four days of free music and art installations. While I missed out on seeing Yoko Ono's billboard, I was focussed on the musical portion of the festival. What follows is a brief overview of this year's LOLAfest.
LOLA kicked off Thursday night with a double bill from Zeus and Jamie Lidell at Rum Runners. Although unlike the rest of the festival it was a pay event, it seemed to offer the most value. It's a wonder more bands don't play Rum Runners, aside from some poorly placed columns, it's a fairly intimate venue, and the upper balcony offers an alternate perspective. During NXNE, I saw Zeus perform at El Mocambo following the Golden Dogs as a secret act. I hadn't listened to them at the time, so I didn't feel terrible leaving midset, as I was tired and amped for Pavement the next day. Perhaps feeling remorse for the slight, I thought I would give them another shot. Zeus' classic rock-inspired style was a bit odd considering the headliner, but I found I enjoyed them much more when not half-asleep. The band members frequently traded vocals as well as instruments, adding great variety and spontaneity to the set. Leaving the stage with shouts for an encore, the band could have easily been a headliner, as there were just as many people coming to see them as Jamie Lidell.
Zeus – Marching Through Your Head
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Tags: Born Ruffians, Caribou, Jamie Lidell, Land of Talk, LOLA, My Brightest Diamond, Zeus


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Okay, it's Solheim Cup time and that means one of the rare opportunities for women's golf to have some facetime in the public gaze and more importantly in the media gaze.
This, of course, is a good thing. Indeed it is a very good thing because women do not usually receive the publicity they crave although they may get what they deserve. Problem is that there are not enough top quality golfers. The top 20 players in Europe, for example, are brilliant at what they do but beneath them there are too many who, frankly, would not persuade me to cross a short street to watch them play.
However, there is another dilemma to consider this week. When this Solheim Cup begins at Killeen Castle in Ireland at stake is not just bragging rights from a biennial match but the very future of this match itself. Put simply, the Europeans better make a fist of this one or the Solheim Cup may swiftly fade away from everyone's gaze as sponsors and public lose interest in what has become recently a rather weary walkover for the Americans.
Consider this: the USA has won the last three with a points total of 47½ to 36½. Cut this any way you like and it adds up to a series of numbing thrashings by the Yanks. In these commercial and hard-pressed times this cannot continue.
Only one European woman, Suzann Pettersen is even in the top 20 of the world rankings and although these rankings are heavily weighted towards the LPGA Tour in the States this is a poor state of affairs.
The European women's circuit limped into life 32 years ago and, mostly, it has been limping ever since. Internal strife on top of an occasional lack of business nous has meant that while the professional men's game here has grown hugely, the female equivalent has barely survived.
Some will say it has been the lack of oxygen provided by high-level publicity that has hampered the women's tour and they are probably correct. But the harsh fact is that publicity will come only when there are players good enough and personalities big enough to feed the beast that is the media.
For a time the eternally admirable Laura Davies did her impressive best to offer something worth reporting and her stint was followed by the remarkable Annika Sorenstam. This week Laura is playing while Annika is a vice-captain for Europe. I hope these two stars join forces to instil some genuine passion into their teammates and to help them believe that they are in Ireland to really compete and not merely to provide something for their American rivals to walk over.
I wish Europe the very best of luck because this just might be the last chance they will have to give the Solheim Cup a future.
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