PNR and the “Monica Affair” (a book review)
The truth of the matter is that – at that point in my life – I just simply did not…
Book Review: Brendy Humphrey Meisels, Family at Booknook
“Push, where are you? Are you in Detroit?” “No, but I’m headed that way now. What’s up?” “There’s a house…
Book Review: Patricia Neely-Dorsey, Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia
Flight 664 had me agitated and bothered since the moment I’d arrived at the Phoenix/Mesa Gateway airport to board the…
Book Review: Nina Simmone, Echoes Resound Forever
I’ve always believed that one can never truly appreciate a book unless one understands the writer’s story. For example, we can…
Book Review: Bridgette Coleman, You Know Better
I really tried to not like this book, but with every page turn I was drawn further into the psycho-sexual…
Book Review: Cecelia Robinson, Memoirs of A Bitch
Shantel Williams is a bitch. A ghetto-ass, slick-talking, dope-cooking, Gucci bag toting, nine-millimeter pistol carrying, cold-hearted, thug-loving, bitch. And new…
Interview: LaTeresa Jones
Tell us a little bit about your work in progress and/or your upcoming release. My new book is called ‘America…
Interview with Author/Educator Adra Young
Tell us a little bit about you outside of being an author. I have taught school for approximately 14 years…
Jeremy Williams’ Detroit: The Black Bottom Community: Giving Voice to Stories, Histories, Ancestors and Living Life Makers, by Dr. Melise D. Huggins
Dr. Melise D. Huggins It is important to note the poignancy of the term Black Bottom. It hosts an…
Interview: Karen E. Dabney
Tell us a little bit about you outside of being an author. I am a native Detroiter. I am a…