Book Review December 2022: BLACK WOMEN WILL SAVE THE WORLD by April Ryan

Y’all didn’t think that I would let this year end without a BOOK REC did you? Nah. I am a fan of April Ryan. For most people, they became aware …

Book Review November 2022: FINDING ME by Viola Davis

As of this posting, Viola Davis is on the verge of being an EGOT artist. All she needs is the Grammy. -JBH Never tell me (or any other Black person!) …

Book Review October 2022: The Weight Of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

“No one stops in Springville except ghosts…” Tiffany D. Jackson is no stranger to this space (please read Monday’s Not Coming), and you all know I do not shy away …

Book Review September 2022: A Peculiar People by Steven Willis

Shouts to Button Poetry for being so willing to put Black writers on. I see y’all! This Button Poet snuck up on me. He really did! I follow ButtonPoetry on …

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 …