Do an unfortunate majority perceive violent crime as an African-American creation because it is most often true or because it is most often shown?
Author: Kalisha Buckhanon for negression
This Week in Black Women…
Black women have begun 2015 with some big bangs...
I Am a Proud “No Kid Hungry” Blogger.
I remain astonished by the degree many kids truly depend on school lunch and afterschool snacks to tackle hunger pangs.
Terpischore’s Atrium with Kalisha Buckhanon
I am happy and blessed to share my interview with Shinjini Bhattacharjee, Editor-in-Chief of the fine new literary journal Hermeneutic Chaos, which published a portion of my new novel with much encouragement and interest in it (all writers need that thumbs up!). My interview appears in the journal's companion blog Morphemic Morphology. I hope our words inspire you. Blessings, Kalisha
P(raising) Zora
Today, Zora Neale Hurston's spirit is 124 years old.
People Once Read Zora Could Not Write
What ignited our spirits about the work was the awesome imagining of the unrecognizable language it presented in the midst of drama we could recognize.
It’s Hard Out Here For a Sister…
If Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Oscar Grant have leaped forth as dark angels to provide us with long-overdue narratives to outline and verify real patterns of mistreatment and injury black men endure, then “Rudy’s” puzzling treatment on the same network she helped bolster so gives us similar analogy for black womahood in America.
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