August 2022 Book Review: Body On The Line By Chanel Hardy

First off, I will admit that I am biased. Second, I am always going to support Black female authors. What I believe is missing in this body positivity, self appreciation …

July 2022 Book Review: Home. Girl. Hood. By Ebony Stewart

I believe Ebony is the second BUTTON POETRY author that I have featured on this platform. I am not apologizing for this. This is a EBONY STEWART STAN PLATFORM. -JBH …

June 2022: Book Review-THE LAST DAYS OF PTOLEMY GREY

This miniseries is on Apple TV now and features the marvelous MisterBats! Walter Mosley is the uncle in my head. I line his work, and believe he is a marvelous …

Book Review-May 2022: Dunbar Out Loud (performed by Bobby Norfolk)

We as Black writers attribute so much to our predecessors. So much to storytellers whom we may never have anything more from them than their pages. Yet, when I came …

March 2022 Book Review: BLESS THE DAUGHTER RAISED BY THE VOICE IN HER HEAD by Warsan Shire

I need you all to know that Warsan Shire will always be on a book review list–any list that I do when books are involved. This book here? OH. MY. …

FEBRUARY 2022 BOOK REVIEW: Nothing’s Personal by James Baldwin

It is fitting that for this Black History Month 2022 this book Nothings Personal by the prophetic mind of Blackness known as James Arthur Baldwin. In reading this book, I …

BOOK REVIEW JANUARY 2022: Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni

Nikki Giovanni’s name to me has always seemed like a prayer to me. Something holy you invoke for something wonderful, or powerful, to happen! With the loss of Toni Morrison …

DECEMBER 2021 BOOK REVIEW: When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan

This is the book that I have recommended time and time again to people who wonder where my feminism comes from–this is one of those sources! One of the reasons …

NOVEMBER 2021 BOOK REVIEW: WILL by Will Smith

Can I tell you all something? Reading this book made me feel all of my 40 (soon to be 41) years. I am old enough to remember when, Will Smith, …

BOOK REVIEW October 2021: The Taking Of Jake Livingston By Ryan Douglass

Jake is Black, gay and a medium. Already, I was sold! With this being spooky season, this book is one that is definitely one which I would recommend, and could …