BOOK REVIEW: SHAKA SENGHOR’S ‘CRACK: VOLUME I’!!


Eldridge Cleaver did it. Yusef Shakur did it. His daddy, Ahjamu Baruti, did it too. Tookie William’s did it with Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir, and Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Live From Death Row put us right at the frontlines of penal life. So it is no wonder to get another former ghetto misfit, funky roustabout, fractured miscreant, bad-boy ex-felon to …

Detroit Author/Advocate Versandra Kennebrew Promotes Literacy!


Detroit Activist/Author Yusef Shakur Speaks to College Students


Detroit Playwright Oliver Pookrum on the New Era of Black Artists…


Oliver Pookrum's Message to New Era of writers, poets, playwrights, etc...

Author/Playwright/Educator and ‘Live Ladies of Literature extraordinaire Adra Young at The Drunken Muse


Author/Playwright/Educator and 'Live Ladies of Literature extraordinaire Adra Young at lit host Wryter L. Bush, The Drunken Muse, somewhere in Grosse Pointe Park, Feb 26, 2011... Where writers & poets discuss art, politics and literature

Book Review: ‘Propelling Faith’ by Dr. Janice Connor


Brenda noticed me and grabbed my hand to join her for a drink. What’s up Push baby? Nothing much, ’bout ta get my head straight. She knew that meant relaxing with friends over drink, smoke and talking plenty cash-money shit amidst thick billowy smoke-rings. I really did not want to sit with Brenda because she …