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Playthell George Benjamin
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Playthell George Benjamin is an award-winning journalist, essayist, lyricist, percussionist, and former history professor. He is the co-author of Reconsidering The Souls Of Black Folks, essays in intellectual history and cultural criticism written as a dialogue with the McArthur Fellow Stanley Crouch on the life and work of Dr. W.E.B. Dubois. Playthell is a columnist, feature writer, sports commentator, book reviewer, obituary writer, and cultural critic for the on-line news magazine The Black World Today. He also writes, produces and performs “Commentaries on the Times” for WBAI FM, where he hosts a weekly show “Round bout Midnight.”
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Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk
by Stanley Crouch and Playthell George Benjamin
Syndicated columnist Stanley Crouch teams up with noted journalist Playthell Benjamin for this thought-provoking look back at The Souls of Black Folk, the epochal, prophetic work by the great African-American intellectual W.E.B. DuBois. In that classic book of essays, first published 100 years ago, DuBois took an autobiographical approach as he reflected on many facets of black life following the Emancipation Proclamation, and boldly challenged the opinions of his esteemed contemporary, Booker T. Washington. Presented in an attractive, streamlined paperback edition with a new introduction, Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk is a fitting tribute to a literary and sociological triumph on the 100th anniversary of its publication.
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