SLS Intimate Conversations Showcase Agnes B. Levine Recently Ella Curry, CEO of EDC Creations (www.edc-creations.com) and founder of the Sankofa Literary Society (www.sankofaliterarysociety.org) had the opportunity to talk with the author of the book Cooling Well Water, Agnes B. Levine. SLS Intimate...
Romancing the hood How Vickie Stringer went from Bible-toting Detroit girl to the queen of gangsta lit by Jonathan Cunningham 6/22/2005 "Victoria was very prim and proper, very churchgoing..." Former underworld queen Vickie Stringer is now the successful publisher of hard-boiled tales from the hood....
Meet Literary Diva: Dorothy Goins Dorothy Goins, born in South Carolina, has been a native of Philadelphia for 37+ years. Her first novel is a compelling story of love and betrayal. Married Man is the story of Kendra Davis and Miles Jordan whose paths suddenly cross after nine, long years. Kendra is...
Black books: the word on the street Specialty vendors and book clubs tap into the changing tastes of African-American readers By Marjorie Coeyman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK - This may be one of New York's last gorgeous summer weekends, but at Sister's Uptown Bookstore,...
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INTERVIEW with Cheryl Lacey-Donovan AAKultureZone.com :: Written Voices Listen to my Black Author Network Podcast Women What the Hell Were You Thinking Cheryl, describe yourself for our visitors. I am the daughter of a southern Baptist pastor. I am a mother and a wife. I have loved to serve people...
I teach English, and I wanted to take a moment today to post some awesome words written by African American women. There is so much inside of all of us that oppression cannot take away unless we allow it to; these women are proof of that. "Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the...
When I was in high school and my freshman year of college I had fantasies about growing up and working as a lawyer for the ACLU. I wrote impassioned papers for my Honors English classes about the first amendment (I think one was pretentiously called "Mightier Than the Sword: Music, Censorship, and...
My students have a poetry project they are working on. They are ninth grade students, and they have to research a poet, find three poems they like by the poet, and write a literary essay about his or her life, along with a discussion of the literary elements found in the poetry and the literary...
“The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were...
"The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books they've printed below. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people...
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were...
Thanks, Cori, for the time-killer:) “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Green: I have read. 2) Blue: Those I intend to read. 3) Underline: Books I love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were...
“The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were...
I LOVE THIS! I Snagged it from Debbie , who just posted it an hour ago! I really want a nap, but am staying to do this instead! “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize...
A bit of book geekery of a Thursday evening.... “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Strike out the books...
Pinched from Lyvvie because it's quite awesome. There are quite a few books on this list that I've been wanting to read for ages but haven't got around to. I think there's a pretty good reason that a lot of adults have only read six of the books in the top 100... most of them have been made into tv...
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes...
"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Italics: Those I intend to read. 3) Underline: Books I love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated. 5)...
Stolen from Hannahbanana "The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.” 1) Bold: I have read. 2) Italics: Those I intend to read. 3) Underline: Books I love. 4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read...
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