An experience with Pearl Cleage and Tayari Jones On a recent Thursday evening, the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself. The chance to meet renowned and bestselling authors were one thing, but to have the two authors be two favorites was yet another phenomenon...
Nappily Ever After Nappily Ever After hit Netflix and it’s been receiving some mixed reviews. After watching the film and then heading over to black twitter to see if we were on the same page about the film I was a little taken back by the reviews. The Romcom is...
To be a writer you have to write. Omar Tyree hit the scene hard in 1993 with the release of his second novel, Flyy Girl. The coming of age tale follows the life of Tracey Ellison–a young sassy black girl who grows up in a middle-class Philadelphia suburb of...
#Blessed By Malakai: To Marry A Madden Book 1) By Sherrelle Green Hey, Sistah’s Hey! The Madden men first debuted in Red Velvet Kisses (Micah), and later in Beautiful Surrender(Malik). The author decided to give us the story of the other Madden men with Malakai as...
“Nikki” by S. L. Murray She stared in the rearview mirror. Looking for something, anything to change her decision. But there was nothing. No expression on her face and no life in her eyes. Her brown eyes used to be full of life. They used to sparkle and...
“Miracle on 42nd Street” By Eartha Watts-Hicks I had just left the hair salon at around 11:15 pm. Karen, my best friend, and owner of Eternal Beauty, occasionally gave me a lift to the Gun Hill Road train station on her way home. I was hoping to be able to...
For women of color to continue the conversations that we have in the nail salon, beauty parlor, church, and during our lunch breaks at work. This is a place where you can kick off your shoes and get comfortable.