Ebele Oseye

Freedom

Celebrating Freedom On Juneteenth

  Book Review: ON JUNETEENTH by Annette Gordon-Reed Copyright 2021 Pages 148 Liveright Publishing Corporation A Division of W.W. Norton & Company Review by ...

Youth Poet--Amanda

Amanda Gorman–The Inaugural Ceremony Immersed In Beauty And Truth

Amanda Gorman. Wikimedia Commons.   In “The Hill We Climb” Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman delivers a profusion of beauty and profound truths that restore ...

Coretta

Review: My Life, My Love, My Legacy–Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King. Photo Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler   Review: My Life, My Love, My Legacy Coretta Scott King As Told to the Rev. ...

TwoCanPlay

TWO CAN PLAY: A LOVE LARGER THAN LOVE

  By Trevor Rhone Directed by Clinton Turner Davis Starring Michael Rogers and Joyce Sylvester Reviewed by Ebele Oseye   What a joy to ...

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Just Mercy–A Story of justice and Redemption

Michael B. Jordan Jamie Foxx. YouTube image.   Just Mercy A Story of justice and Redemption By Bryan Stevenson Reviewed by Ebele Oseye   ...

Paule

Tribute to Paule Marshall: Author of memoir Triangular Road and novel BrownGirl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall. YouTube screenshot of WNYC interview. [BSN Book World] In her memoir Triangular Road, Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929 – died August ...

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BARAKA’S “MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA” –Du Bois

Dr. Du Bois with Kwame Nkrumah and Shirley Graham in Ghana [Review] BARAKA’S MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA (W.E.B. DuBois) Play Written by Amiri ...

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SELMA: Audacious Freedom, Heritage And Obligation

SELMA — David Oyelowo as Dr. King [Film Review] Selma, Directed by Ava DuVernay Running time: 2 hours Selma, directed by Ava  DuVernay could ...

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TRIBUTE: REMEMBERING OUR BLESSED PRINCE, AMIRI BARAKA

Amiri Baraka. Photo: Carl Nunn for The Black Star News   REMEMBERING AMIRI BARAKA 1934- 2014   “Each night I go out to count ...

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In Addition To The Movie, Read The Book: Twelve Years A Slave

[Book Review] Book Author: Solomon Northup Publisher: Dover 352 pages New York This is a Sankofa moment. Let nothing come between you and the ...