history
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Memories
Nostalgia’s a nauseating sickness like four little girls still trying to tear down the brick painted on the sides of their heads Pocketbook scriptures still dangling from underneath their tongues like a scorched covenant under burned fingernails still trying to get me to remember Truth be queasy like first trimesters be painful like birth pains… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – The Soto Brothers
Two kids had already been killed down the street from the apartment complex that would one day be the center of media attention when Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton would be murdered in his bed this same year. Teens from the Henry Horner projects had been protesting for months, a little over a year to… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – 5 Harlem Renaissance Women You Probably Don’t Know
If you’re anything like me, you get tired of the same repeated history. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston. These are names to which we are exceptionally familiar. They were great but we know them. Let’s talk about something else. Admittedly, I didn’t have a… Continue reading
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Yecheilyah’s Book Reviews Special Edition: Introducing William Spivey’s Strong Beginnings
Title: Strong Beginnings Author: William Spivey Publisher: TBA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrongBeginningsaNovel/ Blog: https://enigmainblack.wordpress.com/ E-mail: wspiv001@aol.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/william.spivey1 Twitter: @wspiv001 This is the last book review of the year, and what a way to go out. Today’s review is a special one. I’d like to welcome William Spivey, who frequently writes about politics and popular culture for… Continue reading
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Yecheilyah’s Book Reviews Special Edition: Introducing William Spivey’s “Strong Beginnings”
Title: Strong Beginnings Author: William Spivey Publisher: TBA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrongBeginningsaNovel/ Blog: https://enigmainblack.wordpress.com/ E-mail: wspiv001@aol.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/william.spivey1 Twitter: @wspiv001 *I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review* This is the last book review of the year and what a way to go out. Today’s review is a special one. I… Continue reading
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Beyond Imagination
We live in a world where some aspects of truth are not allowed to exist. They live instead behind the pages of books and underneath the skin of imagination. Writing fiction is fun to me because we have the opportunity to play with these elements, mixing and matching reality and daydreams until anything becomes possible… Continue reading
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Black History Fun Fact Friday – Free Frank
This is a man who was free in more ways than one. Welcome back to Black History Fun Fact Friday. Meet, Free Frank. The first African American to found his own town in the United States, Free Frank was born Frank McWorter on September 7, 1777 as a slave in South Carolina to a West… Continue reading
