Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem – A Memoir (2019)

Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem – A Memoir (2019)

by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 Memoir is a great genre to re-discover Black histories. This text by Harlem fashion legend “Dapper Dan” (Daniel Day) reviews his Harlem life from tenements as a child to throwing dice in the 1970s to selling iconic fashion...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (2018)

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” (2018)

by Nafeesah Allen June 7, 2020 In 1927, anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is a wealth of knowledge about Black life in the early 1900s. Interviewed in Alabama, eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis told Hurston about his experience as an enslaved...