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Robinson, Lisa Clayton. “Harlem Writers Guild.” Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, 2nd ed., Oxford UP, 2005.

“Ball’s in Your Court, The.” The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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