PNR Review of ‘Eyes of Deception: The Stage Play’


@ Wayne State University’s The South End News! – PNR Review of Mark Hunter’s play ‘Eyes of Deception’


Journal Readings in African American Studies


Who’s Afraid of James Baldwin? (No Name In The Street)


In No Name In The Streets Baldwin attempts to bear witness to the tumultuous and decadent era of the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin discusses his whereabouts during the murders of 3 of the movement's most influential titanic figures - Malcolm, Medgar, and Martin; he discusses his involvement; philosophizes the meaning of the movement -and its key players, …

!!!Exclusive Interview with Revolutionary Writer Freedom Speaks Diaspora!!!


Freedom Speaks Diaspora was born and raised in Long Island, New York, Freedom Speaks Diaspora is an author, mentor, and poet. She has opened for Def Poetry Jam on Broadway at Atlanta's Fox Theatre, appeared on Robert Townsend's "Spoken" on The Black Family Channel, performed at "Girls in the Night" during Atlanta's Black Pride, lectured and performed …

2011 in review


The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to …

bell hooks, Kerouac and Denicio Barbier: A Brief Discussion with Black Atlantic Cultural Aestheticist, Jana Sante


I am interested in counter-culture in a hypocritical but honest sort of way i.e. my longstanding gripe with Kerouac, the white-negro hipster phenomenon, and other instances in which elements close to my internal framework get pimped into obscurity. But, that stated, I do get the need for self-discovery beyond the pale. My American Lit background in retrospect is surprisingly sketchy. I was less interested in digesting the conventional classics and far more motivated to fuel my ravenous internal discourse on socio-cultural retentions of the Black Diaspora. -Jana Sante

Book Review of Detroit Activist/Author Yusef Shakur’s ‘My Soul Looks Back: Life After Incarceration’


Yusef Shakur & Push Nevahda @ Urban Guerilla Network (click pic for book review)                                                                      click here for book review

Detroit: The Black Bottom Community


Detroit: The Black Bottom Community, posted with vodpod

PNR’s Top Ten Books of 2011!