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  • Dark Room Collective: Essay

    By Sharan Strange When James Baldwin died in 1987, a group of Cambridge, Massachusetts housemates—among us, aspiring writers and filmmakers—made a pilgrimage to his funeral in New York. It was winter and typically dreary when we heard, and though we were stung by the news of death, we felt a sense of urgency, a need to…

    May 12, 2013
    Essay
    17 minutes
  • Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora

    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

    December 1, 2011
    Around Town
    1 minute
  • Mosaic 26

    Issue 26 09/2010 Interviews R. Dwayne Betts Jamel Shabazz Nkiru Books Bklyn R. Dwayne Betts Imagine Portrait of an Artist meets the Autobiography of Malcolm X. Here the protagonist turns to books and prepares to meet the world outside of prison on his own terms—a world that doesn’t allow for redemption or keeping the past…

    September 7, 2010
    Issues
    2 minutes
  • Something Like Beautiful… by asha bandele

    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.

    August 8, 2010
    Reviews
    1 minute
  • Mosaic 8

    04/2000 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. asha bandele by Tara BettsFarai Chideya by Cynthia RayNikky Finney by Tara BettsBrian Keith Jackson by Damion ManningsGlenville Lovell by…

    April 7, 2000
    Issues
    1 minute
  • Mosaic 6

    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…

    June 6, 1999
    Issues
    1 minute

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