Book Release: Black Hollywood unChained, edited by Ishmael Reed

Friends,

After the controversial release of the movie Django Unchained three years, Ishmael Reed was asked by Third World Press to put together a book of essays of criticism and response by various authors.

While the essays were finished not long after the movie's release, it's been a long journey to get the book itself published. However, Black Hollywood Unchained is now in print, It includes contributions by 28 authors, including what may have been one of the last essays written by Amiri Baraka before his death.

Also contributing (including myself) are:

Houston A. Baker Jr.

Playthell G. Benjamin

Herb Boyd

Cecil Brown

Ruth Elizabeth Burks

Art t. Burton

Stanley Crouch

Justin Desmangles

Lawrence DiSasi

Jack Foley

David Henderson

Geary Hobson

Joyce A. Joyce

Haki R. Madhubuti

C. Liegh McInnis

Tony Medina

Alejandro Murguía

Jill Nelson

Halifu Osumare

Heather D. Russell

Hariette Surovell

Kathryn Waddell Takara

Jerry W. Ward Jr.

Marvin X

Al Young

The book is currently available at Amazon. I buy as much as possible from local venues but I'm not sure which, if any, book-and-mortar stores it's being sold at. If you're interested, you should ask.

Jesse Allen-Taylor