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Iceberg Slim

Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim: New Excerpt

By Justin Gifford

August 4, 2015

Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim by Justin Gifford delves deep into the life and crime of author Robert Beck, whose works have had profound influence black culture (available August 4, 2015). The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, ne Robert…

Movie poster for Django Unchained

Black Pulp Fictions: Yesterday and Today

By Gary Phillips

March 14, 2013

Filmmaker and sometime mystery writer Nelson George (The Plot Against Hip Hop and Night Work) wrote a commentary in the February 15, 2013, New York Times, “Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible.”  The piece focused on the portrayal of black leading men in recent movies, including Quentin Tarantino’s lauded and lambasted Django Unchained, for…

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