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NEW BOOK LOOKS AT STRESS, DEPRESSION & ANXIETY: AN ESCALATING EPIDEMIC FOR PROFESSIONAL BLACK WOMAN

Site Editor - August 21, 2019

Half of black American women report that they experience severe stress, while only a quarter of Caucasian women in the US report extreme stress....

Book Review: “Stony the Road,“ a Novel by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Tony Lindsay - August 15, 2019

Known as a historian, a literary critic, a scholar, and a professor, readers approach the work of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with considerable expectation...

Book Review: The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead

Tony Lindsay - August 7, 2019

The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead Doubleday, New York, 2019, $24.95 (Hard). In his latest novel, “The Nickel Boys,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead brought to heart...

Toni Morrison Leaves Legacy

Tia Carol Jones - August 6, 2019

Toni Morrison, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, passed away at age 88 on Monday, Aug. 5. Morrison was known for her portrayal...

“Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family”

Tony Lindsay - July 31, 2019

Award-winning writer Mitchell S. Jackson’s “Survival Math” is a complicated piece of non-fiction. It defies category: it is a non-fiction work that is biography,...