Category: Black Women

Read excerpt of my next novel SPEAKING OF SUMMER in Intellectual Refuge Literary Journal…

In "Speaking of Summer," the Black women appear to have it all: great homes, men, careers, girlfriends, beauty. But there is a cost to keeping the realities of how they feel about their treatment in the world such a closed secret... I thank editor Christopher Schnieders for publishing this small piece of it and I look forward to finishing it, to share more to come!

“Liberty City” extended until July 19 at #etaCreativeArts in Chicago.

The intimacy and trust between audience and actor for this performance can hardly be reviewed or criticized and must just be experienced... Jeff- recommended "Liberty City" is LIVE this weekend and extended until July 19: this Friday, Jul 10 (8pm), Saturday, July 11, and Sunday, Jul 12 (3pm). ALL SEATS - $20. To get your tickets call 773 752-3955 or go online http://www.etacreativearts.org/

Little Rock Nine, Four Little Girls, and One Confederate Flag: A Retrospective

One way to move this tragedy and the deceased in it past public ephemera and into history is to forever connect the loss of their lives to a national symbolic act against domestic terrorism: the legally-mandated abolition of our Confederate flag, and civil prosecution of anyone who waves it.

My story “There Were Six” appears in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature, and Ideas

The number of black women and girls who go missing without a manhunt or trace continues. I am grateful to share my fictionalization of the predicament of deprioritized black women and girls as the story "There Were Six" in Per Contra: An International Journal of The Arts, Literature and Ideas. I don't presume to do justice to the realistic situation in a story, but please find some helpful links and resources included in this post.

Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era

To understand how the joyous occasion of motherhood was a form of suffering for black female slave, please read this excellent post on "the book Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South, by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. The book tells the history of a somewhat esoteric subject: the need of slaveholders, and the … Continue reading Birthing a Slave: Reproduction and Inhumanity during America’s Slavery Era →