Danielle Allen is the writer of 55 books, together with the brand new launch Plus Dimension Participant, a part of the Curve sequence alongside Curvy Lady Summer time, and Massive Lady Blitz. And the participant, as you’ll discover out, is the heroine. The trilogy focuses on three greatest buddies, and so we discuss friendship, loyalty, […]

For these ladies, the private and political are intertwined. Nearly a decade in the past, I fell in love with studying memoirs at a Life Writing class in school. We spent a semester round a round desk discussing memoirs that I enthusiastically devoured. Since then, I’ve continued to achieve towards memoirs to examine totally different […]

“Cuomo holds his lead one week earlier than main day, as voters specific unease with metropolis’s path.” — The Manhattan Institute – – – In case you haven’t heard: I’m operating for mayor. I’ve a imaginative and prescient for our metropolis that focuses on bettering the lives of working individuals. Nevertheless, not too long ago, […]

This month’s Kickass Lady is Claudia Jones. Wielding a pen as a substitute of a sword didn’t make this lady any much less of a warrior, one who did battle in three international locations in her quick life and shared not solely Black anger but in addition Black pleasure. Born in 1915, Claudia Vera Cumberbatch […]

Alexandria Onuoha is on a vibrant spare stage wearing white, naked toes, her black hair slicked tightly again. She is kneeling, however when the music begins, she shortly rises, arms keen and legs unbound. Her joints share a clean vocabulary. She is delicate wrists and free limbs, blooming bones and fluid hips. She dances from […]