Sunday Book Roundup

This week, the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington brought with it several book reviews on race in America.

NPR has put together a list of "books that bring the civil rights movement to life" here, including two of my favorites - Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (Random House, 1992) and the edited volume of personal accounts, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (University of Illinois Press, 2012).

The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley reviews William P. Jones's The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (Norton). Yardley writes,

"This is the central theme of “The March on Washington”: The powerful economic impulses of the march have been lost to view as historians emphasize the eloquence of King’s speech and its effect on the political climate as the country moved to address the questions of basic civil rights and opportunities that he articulated. Initially the march’s organizers demanded “federal jobs creation, raising the minimum wage, a Fair Employment Practice law, and support for [President John F.] Kennedy’s civil rights bill,” demands that “expanded as new groups joined.”"

This week there are also several reviews of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (Pantheon) by Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, including a lengthy L.A. Times review, a Washington Post review, and a Wall Street Journal review for subscribers.

H-Net has a review of Emily West's Family or Freedom: People of Color in the Antebellum South (University Press of Kentucky), which makes use of enslavement petitions to examine antebellum race and status relationships in the South.

Lewie Reece has tackled two books in a H-Net review titled, "The Lincoln Theme in the Twenty-First Century." The reviewed books are Michael Burlingame's Lincoln and the Civil War (Southern Illinois University Press) and Mark E. Neely's Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press).  Reece writes:

These two books serve as a reminder that the Lincoln theme, far from being exhausted, continues to be explored in new ways by historians. Pure biography remains a subject of lively interest, but so do efforts to connect Lincoln to issues related to antislavery and the Civil War. Additionally, several works are but marginally connected to history, and instead examine the ongoing impact Lincoln had, and continues to have, on American culture. Moreover, as these two volumes suggest, academic historians continue to widen the parameters of our understanding of Lincoln. 

Mark Neely and Michael Burlingame have written widely not only about Lincoln, but Civil War America as well. Their approach in these volumes is different, yet similar. Neely presents a constitutional and legal history of the Civil War which, despite the title, is only partly about Lincoln. Burlingame has written a compressed history of Lincoln’s presidency and its influence on the Civil War. Both works reveal these historians’ impressive scholarship and wide reading in manuscript sources; both provide insight into the subject. It takes courage to try and do something different and provocative, and both men are to be commended for seeking new approaches.

 n+1 reviews Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press).

Other reviews of interest include Washington Post's review of Higher Education in America (Princeton University Press) by Derek Bok.

HistoryToday asks "How could the first nation to cleave church from state remain so pious?"as it reviews The Creation of the American Soul: Roger Williams, Church and State, and the Birth of Liberty (Duckworth) by John Barry.

The New York Times reviews A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America (Norton) by Evan J. Mandery. (Previously mentioned in the Aug. 18 Book Roundup.)

And Salon has published an excerpt from Estelle B. Freedman's Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Harvard University Press).

MAPOZI YA KICHOKOZI LINAH NA DIAMOND YAZUA GUMZO.!!

Staa wa Bongo Fleva, Nasibu Abdul ‘Diamond’ amenaswa na msanii mwenzake, Esterlina Sanga ‘Linah’ wakiwa kwenye mapozi ya kimahaba ambayo yametafsiriwa vibaya.
  Katika tukio hilo lililojiri juzikati kwenye Uwanja wa Ali Hassan Mwinyi mjini Tabora ndani ya Tamasha la Serengeti Fiesta, Diamond alishuhudiwa akiwa amempakata Linah ndani ya basi huku mikono ya jamaa huyo ikishika maeneo nyeti.
  Mara baada ya kutimba uwanjani hapo wakitokea hotelini tayari kwa kufanya shoo, Diamond na Linah walibaki kwenye basi wakiwa wamepakatana na hata msichana huyo alipomaliza shoo yake kali mishale ya saa 3: 00 usiku, alirejea mikononi mwa Diamond ambaye alimpachika mapajani.

Kwa mujibu wa mashuhuda, kama kweli mchumba wa Diamond, Penniel Mungwilwa ‘Penny’ anakubali mambo kama hayo, basi atakuwa na roho ngumu au moyo wa chuma.
  Siyo mara ya kwanza Diamond na Linah kuripotiwa wakiwa wamepozi kimahaba kwani mwaka jana walifanya hivyo wakiwa jijini Mbeya hivyo kutafsiriwa kuwa inaonekana ni katabia kao kabaya wanakaendekeza.

CHEKA NA MASHARI WATOKA KIDEDEA KATIKA MASUMBWI

Bondi Fransic Cheka kushoto akioneshana umwamba na Phill Williams wa Marekani wakati wa kugombania  ubingwa wa WBF uliofanyika katika ukumbi wa diamondi jublee cheka alishinda kwa point

Bonia Ibrahimu Class 'King Class Mawe' akioneshana umwamba wa kutupiana makonde na Simba Watunduru wakati wa mpambano wao uliofanyika siku ya ijumaa katika ukumbi wa Diamondi Jublee King class alishinda kwa pointi .

Bondia Deo Njiku akioneshana kazi na Alan Kamote wakati wa mpambano wao wa utangulizi Kamote alishinda kwa Point

Bondia Mada Maugo akijikakamua kumpiga konde Thomasi Mashari wakati wa Mpambano wao uliofanyika jana wa kugombania Ubingwa wa WBF AFRICA Mashari alishinda kwa pointi mpambano huo

YALIOJILI UZINDUZI WA FOOLISH AGE YA LULU

MSANII wa Filamu Bongo, Elizabeth Michael 'Lulu', usiku wa kuamkia leo amefanikisha zoezi la uzinduzi wa filamu yake mpya inayokwenda kwa jina la Foolish Age .

 Baada ya move hiyo kali ya dakika 120 iliyooesha ukali wa staa huyo kuoneshwa kwa dakika 20 tu na kubakisha zingine 100 kusubiri wateja kuziona majumbani kwao alipanda jukwaani kujitambulisha na kutoa shukrani kwa wamepenzi wa tasnia ya filamu nchini Tanzania kwa muitikio wao alipanda na kuimba wimbo huo wa Yahaya.

Akianzia kuimba kiitikio cha wimbo huo akiwa Back Stage, Lulu aliwashangaza watu pale alipomudu vyema wimbo huo kiasi cha mashabiki ‘Mapedeshee’ wakiongozwa na Pedeshee Rich Rich, kupanda jukwaani na kumtunza fedha kibao ambazo hakika zilimpagawisha msanii huyo na mwisho wa wimbo huo alisema mziki unalipa.

Tukio la uzinduzi huo lilifanyika katika Ukumbi wa Mlimani City jijini Dar, na kuhudhuriwa na mastaa kibao wa tasnia mbalimbali hapa Bongo, wakiwemo; Judith Wambura 'Lady Jaydee', ambaye alitumbuiza sambamba na Barnaba na Amini.

 Wasanii mbalimbali walihudhuria show hiyo usiku huu pale Mlimani City

 Lulu akizungumza machache mara baada ya Move yake hiyo kuoneshwa kwa mashabiki na wapenzi wa filamu Tanzania ndani ya Ukumbi wa Mlimani City.

 Wadau walifuatilia burudani...

 Jide akikamua jukwaani...

 Mama na mwanao ni kama chanda na Pete... huyo ni Natasha (kulia) na Bintiye Monalisa.

 .... Walitunzana tu kivyao vyao...

 noti alizo tuzwa

 Rich Rich akimwaga noti

 Wadau wakifuatilia uzinduzi huo wa Filamu.

 Furaha ilitawala

 Mwogozaji wa Filamu za Kibongo, Leah Mwendamseke nae alikuwepo kuangalia kazi hiyo ya Lulu.

 Waongoza Shughuli hiyo watangazaji wa Redio na TV Double G na mwana dada kutoka Times FM walikuwepo.

NECHA FASHION SHOW

  Onesho la Mavazi lijulikanalo kama NECHA la mbunifu wa mavazi Daniela Raymond. Onyesho hilo lilifanyika ktik kituo cha Utamaduni wa watu wa Kamara.