December 1, 2011 – I had the pleasure of attending the opening reception for the important and fabulous exhibition “Her Word As Witness: Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora” Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn
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Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora
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Issue 26
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Interviews
R. Dwayne Betts
Jamel Shabazz
Nkiru Books Bklyn
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Something Like Beautiful… by asha bandele
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Something Like Beautiful
One Single Mother’s Story
by asha bandele
HarperCollins
Reviewed by Danielle A. Jackson
asha bandele’s latest work, the memoir Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, reads as a dénouement or coda to her first work of prose published ten years earlier, The Prisoner’s Wife. Continue reading
Issue 8
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The Souls of Black Folk
Mosaic profiled nine writers who will make a difference in what we read for years to come: asha bandele, Brian Keith Jackson, Glenville Lovell, Shay Youngblood, Natasha Tarpley, Philippe Wamba, Joan Morgan-Murray, Farai Chideya, and Nikky Finney. Continue reading