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Chapter 1Boot Campfrom The Honduran Crash — Lisa Lopes4,824 words Chapter 1Smithvillefrom The Hand-Sold Cassettes — Dj Screw5,201 words Chapter 1Lake Jacksonfrom The Days Inn Room 158 — Selena4,462 words Chapter 1Buffalo Childfrom The Buffalo Funk — Rick James4,875 words Chapter 1The Whisperfrom The Marsh Harbour Charter — Aaliyah4,147 words Chapter 1South Centralfrom The USC Film School — John Singleton3,849 words Chapter 1The House on Castlewoodfrom The Nightmare Man — Wes Craven4,443 words Chapter 1East Meadowfrom Apartment Five C — Adrienne Shelly4,612 words

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No. 001 · Hip-Hop

The Honduran Crash

A Biography of Lisa Lopes · by Adaora Okafor

A literary biography of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes — rapper, songwriter, and the most volatile member of TLC — tracing her path from a strict, music-saturated Philadelphia childhood through the height of the group's success, the public crises that followed, and her restless final years. Adaora Okafor reads Lopes as an…

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No. 003 · Latin

The Days Inn Room 158

A Biography of Selena · by Esperanza Villalobos

Esperanza Villalobos's biography follows Selena Quintanilla from the family band of her South Texas childhood to the brink of her English-language crossover, drawing on new interviews with collaborators, family, and the Tejano music community. A measured, deeply reported portrait of a young artist negotiating…

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No. 005 · R&B & Soul

The Marsh Harbour Charter

A Biography of Aaliyah · by Tariah Robinson

A biography of Aaliyah Dana Haughton, the singer who reshaped R&B through restraint and intimacy before her death at twenty-two. Tariah Robinson follows her career from Detroit to Blackground Records to Hollywood, and applies investigative reporting to the marriage and abuse that the industry obscured for decades…

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No. 022 · American Politics

The Castro Camera Storefront

A Biography of Harvey Milk · by Edward Forrester

Edward Forrester's biography of Harvey Milk traces the camera-shop owner turned San Francisco supervisor from his closeted East Coast youth to the Castro Street campaigns that made him the country's most visible openly gay elected official. Drawing on oral histories and private correspondence, Forrester situates Milk…

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