Finding authors of color made easy
Finding authors of color made easy
I am a fan of Jane Austen’s work. I have read most of her books at least twice and Pride and Prejudice more than dozen times. Despite my great love for Lizzie, Darcy and rest of the gang, I never could quite saw myself in the Regency world of Longbourn and Pemberley. This year, three …
Its the beginning of Women’s History Month! February was an exciting blur of life, learning and having the flu. But as the saying goes: Nevertheless, she persisted! While didn’t post often, I did read a ton. My top five reads: An American Marriage Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream …
Youtube has a playlist called #CreatingBlackHistory for February. It focuses on modern-day creators or news stories about black people impacting the world. I find the idea an exciting way to celebrate Black history month. It got me thinking…who did I think will be in the history books? Who would next MLK or Rosa Parks? What …
As I take the time to learn more about the civil rights movement, I am faced with how little I knew about the female leaders of the civil rights movement. Discovering them has given me perspective how sexism impacted the civil rights movement. These women face the obstacles from within their organizations and the outside …
It’s that time that time of year where America pretends to acknowledge the achievements of African Americans and the history of the civil rights movement. I debated in the face of “modern” America if there is a point to paying attention or honoring it. It feels like most of this country seem to be re-writing …
It has been a while. Life has a way of getting in the way of things. However, I might have stopped writing but I did not stop reading. Here are my top 6 reads of 2017: Each book explores the pain and courage it takes to see where you stand in the world and the …
This week, my TBR list grows courtesy of Granta’s BEST OF YOUNG AMERICAN NOVELISTS issue. Granta is quarterly literary magazine. I am happy to say, there are 5 writers of color on the list. It breaks down like this: Authors I have never hear of: Dinaw Mengestu Chinelo Okparanta Esmé Weijun Wang Author I have …
Robin Coste Lewis reflects on a black female education in this poem from her National Book Award-winning volume, Voyage of the Sable Venus. Art & Craft I would figure out all the right answers first, then gently mark a few of them wrong. If a quiz had ten problems, I’d cancel out one. When it …
You may or may not know it’s National Poetry Month. I signed up for poem-a-day newsletter to celebrate. It’s fun way to rediscover old classics and be introduced to new voices. One such new gem is Airea D. Matthews. Swindle -Trenton, NJ 1977 Learn the suits, Ace: a club looks like a three-leaf clover …
Reads from around the world, now in bookstore shelves and my TBR list! Kintu is a modern classic, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. “A tale of a rivalry between two well-to-do widows and next-door-neighbors in South Africa…On the surface, author Yewande Omotoso …