Articles And Essays

Alex Haley’s Better Day

(Alex Haley’s Better Day is from Alex Haley’s commencement speech he delivered to an audience in Alumnae Hall at Brown University on May 26, 1984, which was published in the…

Aboard The African Star By Alex Haley

After working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck—and desperate I just love to get out in the ocean. You are really out there, thinking in…

A Word From Alex Haley

Published in The Library Development Review, Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1990 / 1991 by James B. Lloyd (Editor) and Laura C. Simic (Assistant Editor). Within The Library Development Review of 1990-1991, James…

A New Audience For Radio (February 1956)

Black radio programs throughout the South owed much of their success to the on-air personalities or disk jockeys hired to promote particular stations and sponsors. “Of course we promote those…