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Sherri Shepherd pens new book, ‘Plan D’
“The View’s” Sherri Shepherd was 197 pounds when she first took her seat on the stage as a co-host on the popular ABC talk show. Today, she’s 40 pounds slimmer and has penned a new book titled Plan D, outlining how she changed her lifestyle and how you can too. Subtitled, How to Lose Weight [...]
’42: The Jackie Robinson Story: The Movie Novel’
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball (MLB) when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie 42, which hits movie theaters this month, depicts his life story. 42: The Jackie Robinson Story: The Movie Novel is a “movie tie-in novel” written by award-winning author Aaron Rosenberg and it includes an 8-page full-color [...]
Dr. Maya Angelou pens new memoir: ‘Mom & Me & Mom’
Poet and essayist Dr. Maya Angelou has written six bestselling autobiographies, in her seventh Mom & Me & Mom, she delves into a very personal subject – her relationship with her mother Vivian. Angelou opens up about struggles and triumphs, and what it meant to be Vivian’s daughter –a woman who though petite is larger than life. [...]
Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ the Gospel of Freedom
Fifty years ago, on Good Friday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sacrificed his freedom. He was arrested and placed in the Birmingham jail where he penned one of his masterpieces, the “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Crossing Georgia’s borders (where his Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference was headquartered) into Alabama, King refused to “sit idly by” [...]
‘The Deal, The Dance, and The Devil’ Review
Why you should read “The Deal, The Dance, and The Devil”, by Victoria Christopher Murray” Victoria C. Murray, a native of Queens and a true writing genius. Murray has won six African American Literary Awards for best Christian fiction, best novel, and Author of the Year-Female. Murray has also received her second NAACP Image Award [...]
Dr. Dennis Kimbro pens news book: ‘The Wealth Choice’
Dr. Dennis Kimbro has written a new book titled The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires – the sequel to the author’s highly acclaimed book, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice. An authority on business and entrepreneurship, Kimbro conducted a seven-year study of 1,000 of the wealthiest African Americans. The focus group comprised of [...]
Ziggy Marley writes children book, ‘I Love You Too’
Five-time Grammy Award-winner and reggae icon Ziggy Marley has penned a children’s book titled I Love You Too. Illustrated by Agnieszka Jatkowska, the book is based on the song “I Love You Too,” from his 2009 Grammy Award-winning children’s album Family Time. “This book is close to my heart because it was a spontaneous exchange [...]
The golden-tongued Maya Angelou is today’s Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is one of the most well-respected and well-known names in African American poetry. He was the father of the jazz poetry; his poems married the two genres – creating melodic turns of phrase that we gravitate to even today. A part of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes was an incredible stand-out in Harlem, writing [...]
‘Girl’ by Jamaica Kincaid is a crash course for life
Jamaica Kincaid, who was born in Antigua in 1949, has been a very well-respected award-winning writer for many years, but one of her prominent pieces from recent history really strikes a number of chords – if you allow yourself to take it all in as a child and/or a parent. “Girl” is a dialogue between mother [...]
Gordon Parks in L.A. (Lower Alabama)
A new generation of film aficionado was introduced to the character of Shaft when Sam Jackson starred in the 2003 re-make. While it was a fresh attempt at modern storytelling, the film didn’t quite have the same intensity or ‘storytelling without words’ feel that the original had. What was missing? The touch of famed photographer [...]
