The 6th issue of ProudFlesh Journal, ResistanceS with an Interview of Acklyn Lynch is published. Mother Earth Gives Birth to Aminata (A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln); Jena, Louisiana Goddamn.

Articles in Issue 6:

Editorial: ResistanceS
Greg Thomas, Syracuse University, NY, USA

New Black Poetry

Lot’s Wife (On Viewing “The Fugitive Slave”)
Blood Storm” (for Amiri Baraka)
Love, 1979
A Small Man Seeks Redemption” (On a Bishop on trial for Rwanda)
Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY USA

Sula, Be Soft Under Rock
Drinking Desire
Reba at the Funeral
Esther Courts King Barlo
Parting
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, USA

The Black Odyssey (Selections)
Metta Sáma, Depauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA

Mother Earth Gives Birth to Aminata (A Tribute to Abbey Lincoln); Jena, Louisiana Goddamn
Aza Amina Zhenga, PowerConnects, Washington DC, USA

Why Africans Should Take Offense at Nicolas Sarkozy’s Speech
Boubacar Boris Diop, Dakar, Senegal

Urban Maroons: Disengagement and Black Survival
Amari Chris Johnson, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

Hip-Hop Elements: A Photographic Art Exhibit
Noelle Theard, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA

Marxism in Ebony Contra Black Marxism
John H. McClendon III, Michigan State University, MI, USA

Remembering C.L.R. James
Acklyn Lynch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, USA

Special Review Article

Enduring Legacies of Mrs. Garvey No. 1: Tony Martin’s Biography
Carole Boyce Davies, Florida International University, Miami, FL, US

Musical Reviews

On Max Roach’s WE INSIST! – Freedom Now Suite (1960)
Sharisse Stancil-Ashford, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY USA

On Acklyn Lynch’s Nightmare Overhanging Darkly (1992)
Dax-Devlon Ross, New York, NY, USA

On Nina Simone: Remixed and Reimagined (2006)
Tara Betts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

PROUD FLESH Inter/Views: Acklyn Lynch
Greg Thomas, Syracuse University, NY, USA


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