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...Simon Schama’s latest book, “Rough Crossings,” offers compelling support to the argument that for a significant portion of North Americans—namely the tens of thousands of African slaves in the British Colonies at the time—it was the British, not the American colonists, who offered a surer shot at freedom...
...alone in that dilemma. For years, book publishers have catered to the $250 million African-American market with the aspirational stories of authors like Terry McMillan and Eric Jerome Dickey. But attracted by the gaudy numbers generated by the genre known as street lit, such publishers as Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Random House are hitting the pavement...
Street-lit auteur Vickie Stringer has become vertically integrated to protect her market share. Currently, she's enjoying the fruits of a six-figure book deal with Simon & Schuster. In the early 1990s, Stringer says, she was trafficking up to 30 kilos of cocaine weekly to street gangs in Ohio. She was busted and served seven years in prison. When she got out, she self-published her roman clef Let That Be the Reason--and got nowhere. So she developed a business plan. "I finished the book in 2001, and I sent out letters to over 26 agents...
...Harvard women placed second in both the A and B-divisions to capture the overall title. Sophomore skipper Roberta Steele and sophomore crew Christina Cordeiro finished second in the A-division, scoring 42 points to the 38 of Roger Williams University. Sophomore skipper Megan Watson and senior crew Emily Simon replicated their feat in the B-division, also scoring 42 points and finishing second behind Yale. “We didn’t get a lot of races in because of the weather,” Watson said. “That meant we had to be more consistent...
...very passionate about space technology, says Boroffice, 57, a former biology professor. "I see what it has done in India, and I want to do the same in Nigeria." He is already working on plans for the first all-African satellite, with a launch window around 2025. - By SIMON ROBINSON with Gilbert da Costa/Abuja...