Category Archives: African American Writers and Poets

Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis

Posted on May 19, 2022 by unholypursuit

According to reviews this memoir is vastly different from Cicely Tyson’s, but a look at a life many didn’t know existed.

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The Fire Next Time (Vintage International) Kindle Edition

Posted on April 20, 2022 by unholypursuit

by James Baldwin The book and the song is about how tired God is of excuses. He’s so tired of people’s excuses for not getting their act together. Just like in the days of Noah his patience is going to … Continue reading →

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Rachel Hightower~author of “Girl Child In The UnPromised Land”- contact information

Posted on October 14, 2020 by unholypursuit

Some of you asked me about getting in touch with Ms. Hightower. I can’t give you her email addy, so, here’s the URL to her blog. There’s a way to get in touch with her on it. https://rachelhightowerbooks.blogspot.com/

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The Passing of Chadwick Boseman of “The Black Panther”

Posted on August 29, 2020 by unholypursuit

The article below was written two years ago.  We are just learning he was ill when the movie was made. Nonetheless, he did an exceptional job. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther earned a milestone over the weekends it ran by becoming … Continue reading →

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Manchild in the Promised Land-A book published 55 years ago holds true today.

Posted on July 14, 2020 by unholypursuit

  I studied Manchild in the Promised Land as a social studies compendium in college. It was published in 1965 as autobiographical novel. It was written by Claude Brown. It chronicles of the author’s coming-of-age story amidst poverty and violence … Continue reading →

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How to Add Diversity To Your Reading

Posted on June 28, 2020 by unholypursuit

I learned years ago that some of the best stories and most  interesting novels have to be searched for. No one is going to tell you where to find them. You have to browse around the internet or library until … Continue reading →

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Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy by Alisha Gaines

Posted on June 13, 2020 by unholypursuit

The book is based upon real experiments conducted by journalists. In 1948, a journalist named Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously “became” … Continue reading →

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Toni Morrison Quote

Posted on August 23, 2019 by unholypursuit

After the re-election of George W. Bush in 2004, Toni Morrison wrote: This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. … Continue reading →

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400 Years Since The First Captured Africans Arrived In Jamestown, Va. June 6, 1619.

Posted on June 6, 2019 by unholypursuit

    Why is 1619 an important year in African American history? And for American as a whole? This is a very important date. It’s important because it marked the starting point of what this nation would eventually become. A … Continue reading →

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