Short Story: Family by Natasha Sinclair [READERS VOTE]
Family by Natasha Sinclair FAMILY; a simple word with different meanings for different people. I tried to Google a definition, checking Oxford English; Collins and Urban dictionaries, but I never found a ‘one size fits all’ definition, because there wasn’t one; I...
#BookReview The Way Things Are: The Truth Duet by Tasha L. Harrison
The Way Things Are by Tasha L. Harrison If you did not read book one, stop where you are, and devour The Truth of Things: The Truth Duet Book One. I’ll try to write this as spoiler free for those who have yet to read the first story, as this story picks up where the...
Short Story: Why Doesn’t He Love Me? [READERS VOTE]
Why Doesn't He Love Me? “Boom! Boom!” I awoke with beads of salty sweat coming down my face. Every night at 9:30 I would have the same nightmare. No matter how many years went by it come back to haunt me. It was the night I meant the devil who hijacked my life. I was...
7 Bad Ass Female Characters in Black Romance [Part 1]
Pssst! Sistah Girls, yes, you. I’ve got something for you... I have some books about women who knew what Badass looks like and wasn’t afraid to flaunt their BadAssery! Check out the list below if you love heroines that don't take no sh*t. What A Woman Wants by Brenda...
Remembering Our Sistah Girl, Nena Goshay-Colar
If the Sistah Girls Book Club had a flag it would fly half-staff until every heart that was broken by the news of Nena's passing was mended. When I started the Sistah Girls Book Club I never thought deeply about the bonds that would be made or the laughs and inside...
10 Books By Black Authors To Read During Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month The month of May highlights many causes, one of them is Mental Health Awareness. Raising awareness around the many facets of mental health is not always easy, so we put together a list of books that can help best understand mental health...
16 Black Romance Novels You Should Check Out [Includes New Authors]
Black Romance Novels You Must Read Black romance is my genre of choice, I’ve been in my woman cave trying to find some new black romance novels to share with the readers of the Sistah Girls Book Club. Lately, I’ve looked for something new to read, and I found some...
Short Story: Game On by Ayrica True [Reader’s Vote]
Game On by Ayrica True This was going to be interesting. Eyes focused on the person who’d just entered her office, Jazlyn pushed back from her desk. Not wanting to come across in any type of antagonistic manner, because antagonistic would be so bad right now, she kept...
5 Black Art & Poetry Books That Bring Out The Aesthete In You
Black Art and Poetry Over the weekend I was able to see a few of my favorite painters, The late Mr. Barkley L. Hendricks' hand-painted oil canvases displayed on exhibit at the Broad Museum. I know I'm not the only "Aesthete" apart of this club that loves a...
What it Means to Be a Black Reader…
Gathered in a Lecture Hall, on a Sunday. There are two large black and white periodic tables on both walls to the right and left of me. We're in a Science class but today we won't be learning about the elements. On this Sunday, in particular, I made it my mission to...