A book edited by Retha Powers, acting assistant director of City College's publishing certificate program, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award . 鈥 Bartlett鈥檚 Familiar Black Quotations : 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World鈥 (Little, Brown and Co., 2013), is vying for the NAACP鈥檚 鈥淥utstanding Literary Work鈥 prize in the non-fiction category. The 720-page volume is in contention with four other books, including 鈥淭he African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,鈥 co-written by historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Donald Yacovone
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