The Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It? This book-length poem is a

This book-length poem is a love poem and prayer to all Black men

Cuba 1991 Interviewed by Nicole Mitchell

and close friends of the late poet contribute their praise through this collection of brief anecdotes from actual encounters with Gwendolyn Brooks

Historical fiction about two sisters who sold the Pittsburgh Courier in their town in Clarksville Tennessee

The Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It? This book-length poem is aThis book is a critical review of the highly explosive and widely discussed musical art form called gangsta rap. Kitwana examines the ways Black culture, male female relationships, sexism, white supremacy (racism), and gun violence converge in this controversial music form.