we is Black Rider‘s attributes 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 … Continue reading Book Review-May 2022: Dunbar Out Loud (performed by Bobby Norfolk)
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. … Continue reading March 2022 Book Review: BLESS THE DAUGHTER RAISED BY THE VOICE IN HER HEAD by Warsan Shire
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 … Continue reading FEBRUARY 2022 BOOK REVIEW: Nothing’s Personal by James Baldwin
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 … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW JANUARY 2022: Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni
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 … Continue reading DECEMBER 2021 BOOK REVIEW: When Chickenheads Come Home To Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down by Joan Morgan
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, … Continue reading NOVEMBER 2021 BOOK REVIEW: WILL by Will Smith
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 … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW October 2021: The Taking Of Jake Livingston By Ryan Douglass
If you do not know who Nella Larsen is, you need to stop here and Google her. Then come back. Welcome back. Let’s continue. Torches, this book is incredible. I … Continue reading BOOK REVIEW JULY 2021: PASSING by Nella Larsen
Today is Tupac Shakur’s 50th birthday. I turn 40 in 8 days. Just wow. I knew that this book was going to be amazing when I saw Nikki Giovanni wrote … Continue reading June 2021 Book Review: The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
Shameless plug: follow Saeed on Twitter (@theferocity). I am a fan of Saeed Jones. I have been for the last four years and his indelible wit and petty on Twitter. … Continue reading Book Review-May 2021: How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
The Ideal Firestarter 