Melba Boyd
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American poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melba Joyce Boyd is a significant figure in African-American poetry. She has authored 13 books and is a Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Wayne State University.
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- Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (2003) (21)
- A layover in Detroit, or wherein lies the future of black studies? (2000) (8)
- Collard Greens, Clarence Thomas, and the High-Tech Rape of Anita Hill (1992) (4)
- Canon Configuration for Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1994) (4)
- The Legacy of Darwin T. Turner and the Struggle for African American Studies (2011) (2)
- “A Horse of a Different Color”: The Struggle for Equality at the University of Michigan (2003) (1)
- 8. “Ballad of Birmingham”: The Founding of Broadside Press and the Black Arts Movement (2004) (1)
- The Current State of Black Studies in the United States (2017) (1)
- Collateral Damages Sustained in the Film Crash (2007) (1)
- Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs, Taking Poetic License: a Poet Writing About Poets (2008) (1)
- Tearing Down Walls and Building Bridges (2015) (1)
- Dudley Randall and Broadside Press (2010) (0)
- Worthy Wars (2014) (0)
- 14. “After the Killing”: Dudley Randall’s Black Arts Poetry (2004) (0)
- 10. Cultural Wars and Civil Wars (2004) (0)
- Eulogy for Detroit 1967 (2021) (0)
- The Ghost Got It Wrong: Frances E. W. Harper's and Toni Morrison's Representations of Margaret Garner. A Century A/Part (2014) (0)
- 12. The New Black Poets (2004) (0)
- 11. “Prophets for a New Day”: Diversity and Heritage (2004) (0)
- 1. Beginnings and Endings (2020) (0)
- Race and Remembrance (2017) (0)
- 7. The Emergence of the Second Renaissance in Detroit (2004) (0)
- Interrogating Race and Racism Collateral Damages Sustained in the Film Crash (2007) (0)
- Requiem for Naomi Long Madgett (2023) (0)
- Out of the Poetry Ghetto: The Life/Art Struggle of Small Black Publishing Houses (1985) (0)
- 4. War at Home and Abroad (2004) (0)
- 16. “Shape of the Invisible”: The Rise and Fall of Broadside Press (2004) (0)
- Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall (2009) (0)
- Appendix I: Translating Poetry into Film: The Black Unicorn: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press (2004) (0)
- 2. The Fertile Black Bottom of Paradise Valley (2004) (0)
- Introduction. Wrestling with the Muse (2004) (0)
- Red, White, and the Blues: Translating the Existentialism in Richard Wright's Fiction into Film (2009) (0)
- 9. “Ya Vas Lyubil”: Alexander Pushkin, Dudley Randall, and the Black Russian Connection (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Geoff K. Ward, The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice (2014) (0)
- Trials and Triumphs of Reconstruction (1994) (0)
- Appendix II: Worksheets for “Frederick Douglass and the Slave Breaker” (2004) (0)
- 6. Sojourn and Return (2004) (0)
- The Centennial Richard Wright Conference in Paris (2009) (0)
- 20. “The Ascent” (2004) (0)
- “Roses and Revolutions” Dudley Randall: Poet, Publisher, Critic and Champion of African American Literature Leaves a Legacy of Immeasurable Value (2001) (0)
- A historical perspective on two novels by Frances E. W. Harper (1993) (0)
- Baldwin and the Black Arts Movement (2019) (0)
- The Ghost Got It Wrong: Frances E. W. Harper and Toni Morrison. A Century A/Part (2014) (0)
- 17. “In the Mourning Time”: The Return (2004) (0)
- 15. Poetry as Industry (2004) (0)
- 5. The Return: Poetry and Prophecy (2004) (0)
- The Color Line Redefined in the Twenty-first Century in Wake of the Anti-Affirmative Action Suits Against the University of Michigan (2003) (0)
- Ronald Milner (May 29, 1938-July 9, 2004) (2004) (0)
- 13. Dudley Randall’s Poetic Dialectics and the Black Arts Movement (2004) (0)
- 3. Poets of Black Bottom: Dudley Randall Meets Robert Hayden (2004) (0)
- 18. A Poet Is Not a Jukebox (2004) (0)
- "Prophets for a New Day": The Cultural Activism of Margaret Danner, Margaret Burroughs, Gwendolyn Brooks and Margaret Walker During the Black Arts Movement (1998) (0)
- Holding a torch for the black statue of liberty (1992) (0)
- Poetry (2006) (0)
- Impel the heart of humanity to lofty deeds: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Early Black Women's Intellectual Thought (2017) (0)
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper “In the Situation of Ishmael” (2018) (0)
- “Rearranging Your Father's Table”: for Manning Marable, 1950–2011 (2011) (0)
- Bearing witness to: African American literature (2012) (0)
- 19. At Peace with the Muse (2004) (0)
- Richard Wright Centennial Conference (2009) (0)
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