Author Archives: Richard Guzman

Remembering Julian Bond

Julian Bond (b. 1940) passed away this past August 15, 2015.  He led an extraordinary life of  service, especially in the cause of Civil Rights: one of the founders of SNCC (The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee), first president of the … Continue reading

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Students with Style

So many different “styles,” depending on what you’re writing and for whom.  Yet in ENG 265 – Style, I’ve tried to define a “standard” style, a style of writing you’d read in some of our greatest publications—The New Yorker, The … Continue reading

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Frank London Brown: Can White Folks Get It?

So well-received was Frank London Brown’s first novel Trumbull Park (1959), that critic Sterling Stuckey wrote: “…along with Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun and Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious, [it] signaled the advent of a new and brilliant flowering of … Continue reading

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