Book News | Dinaw Mengestu is a L. A. Times Book Prize Winner
On Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8 PM PST, UCLA’s Royce Hall was all the buzz as the 28th Annual L. A. Times Book Awards were presented. Congratulations to all the winners! One winner in particular we want to call special attention to is Dinaw Mengestu for winning the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction for The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.
BOOK REVIEW | Guilty of Love
Guilty of Love by Pat Simmons
Amazon Rating: 4
Review by Tavares S. Carney – Inspire, Motivate & Encourage
“Road to Redemption”
In Guilty of Love, debut novel from Pat Simmons, readers are welcomed into the life and times of Cheney Reynolds, a self-sufficient, independent, new millennium woman. Having had no empathy from college sweetheart, Larry Thimes, after having endured a traumatic medical procedure, Cheney decides to relocate to her hometown. Starting over would not be easy. She had practically shut everyone close to her out of her life except her best friend, Imani.
INTERVIEW | Cherilyn Azubuike
Cherilyn, describe yourself for our visitors.
Overall, I would say that I am quiet and at times very humorous, although some may beg to differ.
If there was such a thing as being addicted to music and literature then I would be the prime candidate for such an addiction. Music is like therapy for me, it relaxes me and get my creative juices flowing; at times it serves as my inspiration and fuels me to keep on keeping on. I have a wide array of music from Mozart to Motown.
Are African American Child Rearing Practices a Direct Outcome of Slavery?
Are African American Child Rearing Practices a Direct Outcome of Slavery?
By Cheryl Lacey Donovan
We’ ve all heard it before, "I’d rather beat ‘em than let the police beat
em." Whippin’s are a part of the African American experience. Family
reunions, funerals, weddings; in just about any gathering of black people, it is commonplace to hear talk about the beatings that they received as children. But, have you ever wondered how this practice became so prevalent in our culture?
BOOK REVIEW | The Pastor’s Wife
The Pastor’s Wife
by ReShonda Tate-Billingsley
Reviewed By: Idrissa Uqdah for The Culture Clique Book Club
Amazon Rating: 4
ReShonda Tate Billingsley is one of the most popular authors in the Christian fiction genre and she has truly earned this distinction. She never fails to delight her readers with her stories about real church folk and their issues.
These Treacherous Times of Ours
VIEWS FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT
These Treacherous Times of Ours
by Alvin C. Romer
These treacherous times of ours are no respecter of anything good. Signs of the times are rife with scales that are unbalanced and detrimental to all things spiritual. In times like these when adversity and ill-will cloud our skies, we habitually look up for better days. We yearn for the good times of yore and allow hope and change to be the barometer to measure how far we need to go. As a man of color, there are a plethora of things I’m always thinking about that have the propensity to make the grade for reflective thought.
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