Satisfy Me


  You won't talk to me about what I'd like to hear I need to know your mind and how the world sits and becomes whatever is perfect I can get to the bottom from the top and Pick from what's left during the early morning  but its still night You won't talk to me …

Notes From Bethabara Park: Cheri Paris Edwards and The Other Sister (a book review)


Country Way East, Okemos MI, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 I believe that novels have the mystical ability to enter our lives at a moment in which we find ourselves standing at the crossroads in-search of something that change our hearts and minds in effort to teach us a deeper meaning of life and love and …

Book Review: ‘Scribes of Redemption: Letters from an Incarcerated Father to His Incarcerated Son’ by Ahjamu Baruti


Life is funny like that: the road we take, Serling’s signpost ahead, the mis-directed arrow with no  GPS capability, point indiscriminately missed. This is it - the lesson - deeply imbedded in Ahjamu Baruti’s collected notes, Scribe’s of Redemption: Letters from an Incarcerated Father to His Incarcerated Son. Baruti’s letters are passionate and profoundly insightful; his sociopolitical observations pensive and intellectual, tender and sharp. He is a scholar, …

Book Review: Monique Mensah’s ‘Inside Rain’


  WINNER OF THE 2010 BEST BOOKS AWARD FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION!!   So, as a matter of course, I found myself disenchanted, repulsed, and put off by the very thing that I once felt obligated to promote and support…. However… Monique Mensah’s new novel, Inside Rain, has sparked new interest in my once waning faith that …

The Scenario Review by The Working Lady


Book Review of Tiffany Nicole Robinson’s debut novel ‘My Own Terms’


Tiffany Nicole Robinson’s debut novel My Own Terms was meant to be a wondrously triumphant tale of one woman’s attempt to re-discover the meaning of life and what it means to be happy, single, and free. But, because of bad writing, underdeveloped characters, and lack of a strong plot (or any plot for that matter) Robinson’s book reads more like …

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last Speech