06/1999

Ms. Private Eye
These black female crime-fighters are breathing new life into the murder mystery genre. Mosaic interviewed two of the hottest crime noire novelist today.
Grace Edwards by Nikki Terry
Eleanor Taylor Bland by Nichole Shields

The Crisis Reader
An in-depth look at a collection of articles from The NAACP’s Crisis Magazine by Trent Fitzgerald

Island Voices
We look at four talented writers who are bringing their Caribbean homeland to the shores of America.
Colin Channer Waiting In Vain by Stacey Warren
Stacyann Chin by Duval
Elizabeth Nunez Beyond the Limbo Silence by Renee Michel
Loida Maritza Perez Geographies of Home by Tracy Grant

R.M. Johnson The Harris Men by India Anderson

The Myth of Solitude: No Writer Is An Island by Kalamu ya Salaam

REVIEWS
The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
Clifford’s Blues by John A. Williams
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
Go Gator and Muddy the Water by Zora Neale Hurston
The Harris Men by R.M. Johnson
Hidden In Plain View by Blair S. Walker
I Left My Back Door Open by April Sinclair
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Listen Up! Spoken Word Poetry by Zoe Anglesey
Listening for God by Renita J. Weems
Plain Talk and Common Sense from the Black Avenger by Ken Hamblin
The Prisoner’s Wife by asha bandele
When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost by Joan Morgan