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I enjoyed “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun”, a PBS “American Masters” documentary that I watched last week.

Ms Hurston, 1891 – 1960, started to publish right after the height of the Harlem Renaissance. The ability to support oneself with art that explored the African-American experience waned with the onset of the depression [...]

Of course we are talking about the “Wire” and many fans are unhappy. Unhappy because there is only one episode left and that its ending will not live up to our expectation. Differently then Sex in the City or the Soprano’s, this series seemed to be about real people. When Omar is killed there are [...]

Following my advice given to others “freely” I have just completed and published a book of my paintings. The paintings are of people, most created in my studio with conversation I imagined them having. This has been a fun project and intend on doing another (larger) book shortly. I used the Internet publishing tool “Blurb” [...]

                   “Writing was … the most extraordinary way of thinking and feeling. It became the one thing I was doing that I had absolutely no intention of living without.”  Toni Morrison
Decided to clean, clear, coordinate, control my bookcase contents.  Found some great stuff that I had forgotten. I discovered that I own a lot of [...]

  
Blonde Faith, is the final book of the popular series, written by Walter Mosley.
We were introduced to Easy Rawlins in Devil in a Blue Dress, 1990. (This was also made into a great 1995 movie with Denzel as “Easy” and Don Cheadle as his explosively, lethal buddy “Mouse”.)
“Easy” becomes a reluctant private investigator in 50’s [...]

Suzan-Lori Parks is an author, award winning playwright and screenwriter. I was going to categorize her as an “over achiever”. But, that’s probably a disservice - she is just doing what she has to do. Doing what matters to her - with excellence.
She won her 2002 Pultitzer Prize for the play “Topdog/Underdog”. I saw this [...]

“Precious Ramotswe ” is Botswana’s only female private investigator - the main character of the “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith. I noticed a few years back that Ms Ramotswe and the authors name were listed week after week on the SF & Bay area California paper back bestseller list. [...]

I usually stay away from themes, the stories in my paintings are not consistent from one painting to another, except that I normally say I am complete with a painting once I recognize the people who are in the painting. I don’t really know them, but they look to me like people who I would [...]

The 6th Annual Arizona Black Film Showcase (AZBFS) is a three-day event held at the Herberger Theater and AMC Theater - Arizona Center. The three-day event is comprised of information packed workshops, Short and Feature Film Screenings and a Vendor and Resource Fair. This exciting three-day event ends with the Awards Ceremony where the winner [...]