The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Material:Hardcover Laymon writes eloquently and honestly

Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson

Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art

underemployment

But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer

With powerful verse and striking illustrations by Nikkolas Smith

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Material:Hardcover Laymon writes eloquently and honestlyMy life had its significance and its only deep significance because it was part of a Problem, W. E. B. Du Bois once wrote. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood these words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americansthe revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother, the descendant of slaves and tenant farmersAiley carries the weight of this Problem on her shoulders. The daughter of an accomplished