Hunger! I couldn’t wait to read this book. Ever since I read “Bad Feminist” I’ve been waiting. I was hoping to read how or what lead 12-year-old Roxane into a bad situation. Ever since she mentioned that she was raped by a ‘congress’ of baboon she called boys. In “Hunger,” […]
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PARADIGM SHIFT Perspective is an amazing thing. You think that you’re true about an issue, and then all of a sudden, a perspective comes along that causes a paradigm shift in your thinking. In comes, Jennifer Clements’s book Widow Basquiat, a very personal accounting of the relationship of her friend […]
THE BLACK MAN’S REVOLUTION Looking back with MICHEL WALLACE’S brilliant book “Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman.” BE YOURSELF Black man designation, what does it means to be yourself? It sounds like an easy thing to do, but in reality, it’s a lot harder than it sounds. It’s […]
Hail King Kincaid by Manuel Palacio Hail King Kincaid, for she is ferocious uncompromising honest and brave. Jamaica Kincaid spends a lot of her time dispensing what a critic so accurately put, awful truths; truths people spend a lot of time trying not to acknowledge. Understanding this Jamaica Kincaid takes […]
Jamaica Kincaid Lucy by artist Manuel Palacio There’re a few books that I can think of that had a profound impact on me. Zami by Audre Lorde, I read it in my early thirties when I had a strong belief in the power of my manhood, although I would not […]
Black Identity I first saw Ta-Nehisi Coats on a YouTube interview with professor Barbara Fields; discussing her brilliant book “Racecraft” he was humble. He understood the premise of Professor Fields book: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race. Now, to how I feel about the article “The Case […]
