Welcome back to my Black Men Reading Series exchange with Chef Omar Tate! If you read Part One – in which he shared his thoughts regarding the value of th...
“I make actual dishes that parallel the poetry and art. I find it important to use history and literature in my culinary work because for a very long time we bl...
A few weeks ago, I re-read Black Folktales by Julius Lester, and posted a short review of it on goodreads.com. This morning I opened up yesterday’s New Y...
What are your ideas about being well-read? Do you consider yourself to be well-read? I was asked this question by Darkowaa, who hosts African Book Addict!, a wo...
As I flipped through the pages of Shantrelle P. Lewis’s Dandy Lion: The Black Dandy and Street Style, I recalled the black men of style I grew up seeing in Detr...
PART TWO (Read PART ONE) The farther away I get from my first impressions of this story the more it becomes other things. Is this what happened when Jean Paul C...
PART ONE I am having difficulty thinking about the film “My Friend Victoria” and the Doris Lessing novella “Victoria and the Staveneys,” from which the film was...
I have enjoyed many an hour in galleries, museums, and—quite frankly, folk’s homes and work spaces—looking at visual art, artifacts, photographs, maps, and what...
Oh! How is your summer going? I also mean: goodness gracious but I hope you have had some fun and/or a vacation and things like that….! ….found myse...
Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor My rating: 4 of 5 stars (I had to read this groundbreaking book once I learn...