L. L. Cool J: [29] 309-310

Labor, organized: [38] 429-437

Lacan, Jacques: [39] 542, 545

Lacy, Leslie Alexander: [27] 13-14
--The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro: [27] 13-14

Lafont, Charles, and Charles Denoyer: [19] 80-81
--Le Tremblement de terre de la Martinique: [19] 80-81

Lakoff and Johnson: [39] 502-503, 510

Lamartine, Alphonse de: [19] 81-82
--Toussaint Louverture: [19] 81-82

Lamming, George: [24] 359-363
--In the Castle of My Skin: [24] 359-363

Lane, Charles: [28] 320

Lane, Cleo: [20] 189

Lane, Pinkie Gordon: [20] 294-298; [39] 17-38
--"College Teacher": [39] 24
--Elegy for Etheridge: [39] 18, 37
--"Elegy for Pete": [39] 23
--"Epitaph for the Blues": [39] 18, 30
--"Finis": [39] 18
--"The Girl in the Window": [39] 36
--"His Body is an Eloquence": [39] 29
--"I Have Forgotten": [39] 37
--"I Never Scream": [20] 294, 297; [39] 20, 22
--I Never Scream: [20] 294-298
--"Marion": [39] 33
--"The Midnight Thoughts of the Town Whore": [39] 26-27
--"Miriam": [39] 18
--The Mystic Female: [39] 20, 22, 26
--"Old Photo from a Family Album, 1915": [39] 33
--"On This Louisiana Day": [39] 22
--"The Plum Ripens": [39] 18
--Poems for an Outcast: [39] 18
--"Portrait": [39] 35
--"Prose Poem Portrait": [39] 33
--"Rain Ditch": [39] 21
--"Songs to a Dialysis Machine": [39] 29
--"This Treasured Book": [39] 25
--"To a Female Poet That I Know": [39] 25
--"To Sonia Sanchez": [39] 27
--Wind Thoughts: [39] 18, 25, 29-30

Larkin, Alile Sharon: [25] 381-384; [28] 319
--A Different Image (film): [25] 381-384

Larsen, Nella: [14] 142-146; [20] 97-111; [24] 660-661; [26] 173-188, 475-484; [27] 599-614; [31] 23-39, 528-529; [32] 373-386, 552-558; [35] 533-560; [36] 383-401; [38] 108-112, 115, 441-442, 444; [39] 432; [40] 421-435
--Passing: [14] 142-146; [20] 97-98, 105-110; [26] 173-182, 184-188, 475-484; [32] 373-386, 552-558; [36] 383-401; [38] 108-112, 115, 442, 444; [39] 432
--Quicksand: [20] 97-105; [24] 660-661; [26] 183-188; [27] 599-614; [31] 23-39; [35] 533-560; [40] 426, 428-429
--"Sanctuary": [40] 421-435

Lawrence, Jacob: [23] 523-537; [31] 225-226; [40] 571-584
--Frederick Douglass series: [23] 525-529
--Harriet Tubman series: [23] 529-532
--Migration of the Negro series: [23] 532-535; [40] 571-584

"Lay This Body Down" (spiritual): [23] 568-570

Leadbelly: see Ledbetter, Hudie

LeBlanc, Whitney: [26] 307-317

Ledbetter, Hudie: [23] 95-96

Lee, Canada: [39] 286, 359

Lee, Jarena: [26] 122-126
--Life and Religious Experience: [26] 124-126
--Religious Experience and Journal: [26] 124-126

Lee, Leslie: [11] 115
--The First Breeze of Summer: [11] 115

Lee, Spike: [25] 237-282; [27] 536, 547; [29] 277-280; [32] 215-227; [34] 47-54; [35] 263-279; [38] 637-648; [39] 104-115; [40] 291
--Bamboozled (film): [40] 291-293
--Clockers (film): [35] 263-279
--Do the Right Thing (film): [25] 254-274; [32] 215-227; [34] 47-54; [38] 638-647
--Joe's Bed-Stuy Barber Shop: We Cut Heads (film): [25] 237-245
--Jungle Fever (film): [34] 56-57; [38] 637, 645-647
--Malcolm X (film): [27] 536, 547; [34] 54-56; [39] 104-115
--Mo' Better Blues (film): [29] 277-280; [38] 639, 644-645, 648
--School Daze (film): [25] 254-256, 259, 274-276; [38] 639-641
--She's Gotta Have It (film): [25] 245-251; [38] 637-639

Legion of Super-Heroes (comics): [36] 110-112

Lemmons, Kasi: [39] 213-217, 221, 223-228
--Eve's Bayou (film): [39] 213-217, 221-228

LeNoire, Rosetta: [17] 69-72

Leonard, Herman: [29] 241-246

Leopold, Nathan: [39] 556-565
--Life Plus 99 Years: [39] 561, 565

Leslie, Marsha L.: [31] 673-674
--The Trial of One Short-Sighted Woman: [31] 673-674

Lester, Julius: [31] 176-182; [32] 51-56
--And All Our Wounds Forgiven: [31] 176-182
--John Henry: [32] 51-56

Levy, Eugene: [40] 260, 267

Lewis, John: [25] 645

Lewis, Philip: [30] 148-149
--Life of Death: [30] 148-149

Lewis, Sinclair: [14] 96

Lewis, Theophilus: [28] 206, 537, 539, 541-546

Lhamon, W. T., Jr.: [40] 286, 288-289, 291

Ligon, Glenn: [30] 35-57
--To Disembark: [30] 35-57

Lilly, Octave: [18] 22-23

Lindsay, Vachel: [38] 137; [39] 68
--"The Congo": [38] 137; [39] 68
--"Mumbo Jumbo": [38] 137

Lippard, George: [40] 493-499, 501-502
--The Empire City: [40] 494-495, 501
--The Quaker City: [40] 499, 501-502

Lipsyte, Robert: [9] 62-63
--The Contender: [9] 62-63

Little, Malcolm: see Malcolm X

Locke, Alain: [2] 57-58, 60-68; [14] 91-99; [21] 61-62; [26] 675-678; [39] 68-70, 88, 316-317, 322; [40] 145, 155, 159, 161, 428, 477
--The New Negro: [2] 64-65; [14] 93-94, 97, 98; [21] 61-62; [39] 68-69, 317, 322; [40] 145, 150, 155, 158-159, 161, 428

Loeb and Leopold case: [39] 556-565

Logan, Juan: [19] 30-31

Logan, Rayford W.: [30] 125-127

Loggins, Vernon: [40] 208-209, 212

Lorde, Audre: [39] 172-173, 175, 182, 186, 231
--Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: [39] 172-173, 175

Lovell, Whitfield: [19] 46-47

Lower East Side: [27] 328-340, 569-598

Lubiano, Wahneema: [39] 231-232, 234

Lynching: [38] 379-391, 461-463, 571-574, 579, 580-583, 595-596

lynching dramas: [39] 89-98