For those of you who don’t know I work at Target in my spare time and I try my hardest to avoid the Entertainment/ Book section. When I say the struggle is hard, its like sending a kid in a candy store, or getting my kids to agree on one thing. Yeaaah.. that kind of…
Review of Viola Davis’ Finding Me
There is no secret that I stan for black culture. I mean I love everything about black people and black culture. Hell the only thing I don’t like black is my coffee. Debate your mama because that mess is nasty. Anyways, back to the topic. Viola Davis is hands down one of my favorite actress….
The Amazing Art of Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, on September 7, 1917. When Lawrence was seven years old, his parents divorced, and placed him and his sibling into foster care until he was thirteen, at which time they moved to New York City. His mother enrolled him in arts and craft class at the Utopia Children’s…
The Honorable Judge Jackson
(Photo by Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images) On January 26, in the year of Blue Ivy ‘s 2022, Justice Stephen Breyer caused legal minds yank their selves always from stale legal briefs and relentless recycled legal speculations on former President Donald Trump’s. On that day, Justice Breyer announced he would retire from the Supreme Court. “What in…
Book Review of Dread Nation and Deathless Divide
Blurb for Dread Nation from Goodreads. Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation…
Review of Amari and the Night Brothers
“You’re not going to change the world unless you hang with people who want to change the world too.” Blurb from Amazon. Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said…
Seven Days in June Book Review
There is something to be said about experiencing your first love. A love so sweet, innocent. Well, this aint that type of book. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams explores rather or not people truly can change, does love really endure? Can you really get that old thang back? The story revolves around Eve…
I’m So Over Black Trauma in Movies and Books.
Yes, I said what I said and I’ll say it again because I mean it. I -AM- S0 OVER-BLACK TRAUMA. I really am. In EVERYTHING. In our movies, our music, our books, the news, hell even in my own damn life Now let me stop you all, you too-woke people before you jump down my…
Will Book Review
Before I read this book, I already loved Will Smith. I don’t know if it was what I thought “his story was” or his recent zeal for adventure that had me already loving him. It doesn’t even matter what my reasons were before, because after reading this book I am now a card carrying die…
C.S. Carraway 