Name: Robert Lashley
Weblog: theliterarythug.blogspot.com
Articles: 20
First Published: Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Last Published: Friday, November 17, 2006
Currently listing articles 20-1:
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Stanley "Tookie" Williams: One Year Later— Thoughts on the Crips' founder, executed December 13, 2005.
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CD Review: Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man The Way That I Love You— Sometimes you have to go back to universal truths. The sky is blue. Ice cream is tasty. This is a brilliant album.
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The Case Against Rap's Case Against Oprah— If rappers want to spew violent lyrics, that's fine. Just dont expect every black person to like it.
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CD Review: Midnight Love & the Sexual Healing Sessions - Marvin Gaye— Marvin Gaye's flawed yet brilliant final album.
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Book Review: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway— Ernest Hemingway's first novel. Flawed but indispensable. And this just in: Henry Miller and D.H. Lawrence are still dead.
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Book Review: Lawd Today - Richard Wright— One of the most epic failures in the history of African American literature.
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Book Review: Washington Square, by Henry James— Washington Square is a great introduction to Henry James, showing the full range of his creative powers.
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Book Review: Rabbit at Rest, by John Updike— Rabbit at Rest is John Updike's masterpiece, a Greek tragedy articulated through the downfall of a flawed nuclear family.
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CD Review: I Can't Stop - Al Green— I Cant Stop is a portrait of a great artist in nearly full command of his faculties, with the guts to use all of them.
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The Thug Male's Prison— Young black men need to deal in a metaphysical philosophy of love, empathy and respect for humanity.
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CD Review: Vulnerable - Marvin Gaye— Marvin's Gaye's lost jazz album, which should be found by as many people as possible.
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In Defense of Bill Cosby— His remarks were emblematic of the anger that many African Americans have over the interpersonal problems that we need to address.
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Book Review: Love, by Toni Morrison— This book proves that Morrison at 80 percent is still one of the greatest novelists writing today.
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Book Review: One Writer's Beginnings by Eudora Welty— A brilliant memoir from one of the greatest writers in the history of American literature.
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Remembering Harold Cruse in Anger— The author of 'The Crisis of The Negro Intellectual' was one of the nastiest con artists to ever come across American arts and letters.
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Why Ray Charles Matters— Ray Charles was a titan of not just popular music, but American culture as well
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Book Review: James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain— Go Tell It On The Mountain is one of the finest novels written in American history.
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Many Thousand Gangstas Gone— An ex-hip hop fan's beef with hip hop. Mainstream hip hop is sowing the seeds of a cultural nuclear winter.
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Book Review: Dr King's Refrigerator - Dammit, Chuck— Charles Johnson is one of the finest writers in modern American Literature. This is the worst work he's ever done.
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Music Review: Donny Hathaway— Do we celebrate the beauty of Donny Hathaway's music or realize that the beauty came from a place of unspeakable sorrow?
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