The New Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times -- Revised Edition. This item is unavailable.The New Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times -- Revised Edition

Offering advice for being confident and comfortable in any situation, an updated edition of the practical ettiquette guide for contemporary African Americans provides information on the social rites of passage, the new corporate workplace, special occasions, and everyday rules and rituals. 25,000 first printing.

Karen Grigsby Bates is a correspondent for NPR’s national news magazine Day to Day. For several years, she wrote forTime magazine and was a contributing columnist to the Los Angeles Times Op Ed page. Bates is the author ofPlain Brown Wrapper and Chosen People, suspense novels featuring reporter-sleuth Alex Powell. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.

Karen Elyse Hudson writes an advice column titled “Talk to Me” for the Wave Newspapers Group and is the author of a biography of her maternal grandfather,Paul R. Williams, Architect: A Legacy of Style, and a biography for young people,The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, Architect. She speaks extensively on etiquette, party planning, and architecture.