Posts under ‘Black History Month’

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You are invited!
Please join me for this special event. Bring a friend, a family member and warm smiles. I will be signing copies of my recently released children’s book titled, Isaac and the Bah Family Tree. The event details are as follows:

When: Saturday, February 7th from 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Where: Sisters Uptown Bookstore
1942 Amsterdam Ave @ [...]

Her story doesn’t require much explaining. Many may only know of her through the up-beat Outkast track titled Rosa Parks, but even with that they know something – or should. I picked Rosa Parks today not because I was without knowledge of the events that occurred on that Montgomery bus back in 1955, but because [...]

As a big-time lover of Reggae music I can’t recall how many times I’ve been under the red light swaying to rough, sweet, and gritty island music infused with voices shoutin’ “Selassie! Rastafari! Biko, Garvey” and so forth… My head always fell back towards the ceiling, eyes closed, listening, but never really listening or perhaps [...]

“One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States… A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn’t stand it [...]

I don’t recall the first time I read Countee Cullen’s poems, but during that time I latched on to a few that struck me hard immediately. Whether I had experienced something similar or marveled at his writing style, Cullen became one of my favorite poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Cullen was [...]

While I’ve never gotten largely wound up around the month of February for several reasons or Black History month, this year I’m doing it different. After being on the road for a majority of the past year I rediscovered something that always seems to blow my mind. The number of black people that I see [...]