What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard.(Brief Article) From: Black Enterprise | Date: March 1, 1994| Author: Robinson, Frederick D. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Ralph Wiley is Back on the Block with a new volume of essays, What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches From Near The Vanguard. Unfortunately similar to his first collection, Why Black People Tend to Shout, this new book also fails to deliver. In essays on everything from baseball to Clarence Thomas, the reader will find Wiley sometimes engaging or amusing. But the reader won't find anything new and provocative.

Wiley is at his best writing as a humorist. For example, ...