What is the name of both an African-American magazine and a type of wood?
Sepia (magazine) Sepia (magazine) Sepia, a photojournalistic magazine styled like "Look" and sometimes compared to "Ebony", featured articles based primarily on achievements of African Americans. It was part of the rise of postwar publications and businesses aimed at black audiences. The magazine was founded in 1946 as "Negro Achievements" by Horace J. Blackwell, an African-American clothing merchant of Fort Worth, Texas. He had already founded "The World's Messenger" in 1942, featuring romance-true confession type stories of working-class blacks. Blackwell died in 1949. George Levitan, a Jewish-American man born in Michigan, who was a plumbing merchant in Fort Worth, bought the magazines and
The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale reviewed by "Publishers Weekly", "Kirkus Reviews", "School Library Journal", and "The Horn Book Magazine". The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale The Hired Hand: An African-American Folktale is a 1997 book by Robert D. San Souci and illustrator Jerry Pinkney based on an African American folktale about an itinerant worker who is able to rejuvenate and resurrect people. A review of "The Hired Hand" by "BookList" wrote "He [Pinkney] successfully blends historically realistic details with timeless folkloric magic, and he enhances San Souci's smooth retelling in the process. An obvious choice for primary story hours, this will also make a welcome