A family…a career…a dream…can a woman really have it all? Florence Kinkaid is content as a small town clothing designer and seamstress. Married to her high school sweetheart and the mother of two sets of twins, she’s certain her life is complete. But deep in her heart a forgotten dream waits. A dream she tries …
Inaugural Urban Legend’s Ball held during Black Writer’s Weekend 2019 ATLANTA — In its 11th year of promoting and celebrating African American creatives in publishing, television and film, African Americans on the Move Book Club (AAMBC) will honor fifty authors who have made significant contributions to the Urban Fiction literary genre at the inaugural Urban …
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It’s a cold-hearted world, and unfortunately, a traumatic childhood left young Kira feeling as though her existence was collateral damage. Abandoned and betrayed by everyone responsible for her protection, left her no choice but to fight back. Guarded, unforgiving, outspoken, and vowing to never trust anyone with her heart, her mouth became her weapon. Without …
If Only I Could Shut My Mouth by Kimberly Racquel Read More »
Deneen Mariette Joyner a seventh daughter and seventh generation Black Indian woman knew since the age of five that she was different. Otherworldly metaphysical and spiritual experiences–that growing up in the 1960s in the conservative city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania wasn’t popular having or even understandable. Sharing these experiences with anyone would have branded her as …
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Ronnie had the perfect life every little girl dreamed of. Her handsome and successful husband, Michael; her active son, MJ; An immaculate home located in an upscale neighborhood; A lucrative nursing career. Even though Ronnie’s every effort was to make Michael a happy man, hostility in the home prevented her from enjoying her fantasy life. …
It was June 2006. I was twenty-five years old, going on twenty-six that fall. I’d recently moved back home to the Bay Area from being out of state for college. I had earned my bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Morehouse College and Harvard University School of Education, respectively. Plus, I’d just landed one of those …
Black Fatherhood : Trials, Tribulations ,Testimony & Triumph By Khalid Akil White Read More »
School is OUT. You’re graciously remembering walking across that stage after four years of hard work through undergrad, as you hang up the cap and gown; now a bittersweet souvenir. Or maybe this was the last time you’d walk the halls of your best teenage years, within high school, homecomings, prom and college searches coming …
Never Not Learning: 5 Ways to Expand Your Knowledge Over Summer Break Read More »
Helen wasn’t just born the devious vixen of New Day Temple of Faith. There has to be something rooted deep within her to make her feed off of the pain she inflicts on other people. Perhaps it is her own pain that she has suppressed for so many years. Its an unimaginable pain that creates …
Author Alison Mills Newman reveals a rare vision of intersections between the lives of upper middle class African Americans, cutting edge multicultural bi-coastal artists, Pentecostal Christians, and revolutionary black political activists in her second novel, MAGGIE 3. Readers will witness “a rare thing,” as Nobel prize winning author Toni Morrison said of Ms. Newman’s first …
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