Just in time for Friday Happy Hour...My story "Drinking Alone" debuts in Intellectual Refuge literary journal...
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Harsh History: A Gem of Our Libraries
The Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, housed in Chicago’s Carter G. Woodson Library, is an invaluable display of the flowering of Black history and culture within a Northern, urban environment galvanized by the energy of hundreds of thousands of post-war Black migrants from the South.
Spirit of Writing Week 5: Be Your Own Best Critic
End 2014 writing, not planning to write again in 2015. The Spirit of Writing: 12 Weeks of Practice.
The New College.
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the number of “college” students who need a remedial (or high school repeat) course funded by the U.S. government had risen a staggering 160% in the last 12 years. This means that students are now arriving on campuses in America so poorly prepared and scarcely educated they must redo a version of pre-school in order to prepare for professions.
National Food Recovery Week: November 17-21, 2014
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 96% of the food we throw out ends up in landfills.
My thoughts on Beloved and The Color Purple featured on BlogHer.
BlogHer.com, sponsor and spearheader of National Blog Posting Month, features my post "Important and Troubling Book-to-Film Issues in My Favorite Movies: 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved.'
My story “Personals” appears in The Stockholm Review of Literature…
I am happy to see my short story "Personals" appear in The Stockholm Review of Literature. The story follows a web of interconnected strangers plagued by urban alienation and internet safety issues across a nameless online platform.
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