New television drama " Mission Local" is looking to cast six leads, supporting roles, and background extras for its plot episode. The production will be accepting Union and Non-Union submiss… Read More
In the midst of the Coates phenomena I saw a call for people to buy copies of TaNehisi Coates' Between the World and Me at black bookstores. I found the suggestion laughable. The current s… Read More
I was jumped once. Such a strange word with an innocence that doesn't matter, a couple of young men in their confusion, throwing as many punches as they can against your body. I was lucky… Read More
Business makes money, and there's something about money that destabilizes black knowledge. It could be our original slave position-whack in relationship to money from the beginning. We all… Read More
In India it is said that if a Goat thinks of God he probably imagines it to be just like himself, i.e. a Goat. After watching bits of all these TV specials all I can say is that the Indians… Read More
One hundred years ago, Woodrow Wilson historically hosted the first motion picture screened at the White House. The film, based on Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman, was D W Griffith&r… Read More
China Note #6- The Wuhan Soundtrack Louis Armstrong in ChinaBut for real, for real, the real soundtrack here is the language I don't speak filling the air and swirling around me. I hear it… Read More
One of the great riddles for me is the absence of the publication of Sekou Sundiata's work. There are the two CDs and his small chapbook, Free, which is somewhere in my personal collection… Read More
The Free Black space response to TaNehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" published a little over two years ago in The Atlantic discussed African American activist writing as a form of i… Read More
Not too long ago, here in Wuhan, on a day whose weather I do not remember, as I passed a short row of grocery stores and restaurants on one of the main drags at the university, I recognized… Read More
finalist for the 2016 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize1. It’s a regular morning and I head out the neighborhood passing the Glenn Dale Hospital, a clump of old abandoned buildings… Read More
While Amazon is looking to solve last-mile delivery problems with the use of drones, its competitor Walmart plans on employing them within its retail stores. Yes, drones could soon become in… Read More
Afaa M. Weaver's place in American Letters is unprecedented and unique. African American culture, especially the literary arts, are bound to the English language and… Read More
The Independents are banding together. That is, 13 Independent Candidates who feel they don’t fit in the Republican Party in the age of Trump are joining forces with a few Registered D… Read More
According to a 60 Minutes investigation, Trump has nominated the opiate pharmaceutical companies’ perfect man to be Drugs Czar for addiction rates to rocket. The DEA asylum is take… Read More
"Shields and Brooks on Trump's condolence call, Obamacare fix bipartisanship" PBS NewsHour 10/20/2017ExcerptSUMMARY: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist Davi… Read More
The following post was published in April of 2015 on Free Black Space just two months before the publication of Between the World and Me. Part of the Free Black Space approach is to re… Read More
Ten Simple Things About Free Black Space1) Black intellectualism has always existed in America. Black intellectualism existed before America. There were black intelle… Read More
My time in China changed my approach to writing. To be truthful I think the country jacked up my personal discipline. For the myth of discipline as I learned it in the… Read More
Morning does not lie but can be mis-interpreted. For instance, I could say good morning on a day I had spent up all night. I used to do that shit all the time. The lie is innocent. A black l… Read More
" China does not share the West's missionary impulse - it no longer seeks to export revolution, as it did during the days of Chairman Mao. Its goal nowadays is primary counter-revolutionary:… Read More
Love is patientThat is a metaphor. Meaning the author is conveying an idea about “love” by showing us something different. A metaphor is an equation that presents the… Read More
The Myth of the Cave is an allegory used by Plato to demonstrate the degree to which our natures can be enlightened, being the most convincing and original metaphor of idealism. Plato im… Read More
It's been another rough day in Babylon as Ras would say. I say rough, but rough depends on how you look it at. Always a lot going on, but I guess it is how you look at it. How yo… Read More
Hospital for the Negro Insane was a finalist in the Crab Orchard Review 2016 John Guyon LIterary Non-Fiction Prize.1.It’s a regular morning and I head out the neighborhood passing the… Read More
I keep saying I'ma gonna head further South where the croakers, spots, and blues run. Maybe Solomon's Island, maybe Point Lookout; but I'm stuck on Lower Marlboro cuz the sunset there is to… Read More
Integrative Ancestors, redux: A Child’s Story from the past to the future
– By Gregory Stephens – October 2, 2018
Fall 2018
When my daughter Sela was three, she invented a… Read More
The Yellow Bird
– Fierce Fiction by Kat McNichol – November 12, 2018
He guides his 1950 Massey-Harris tractor out the battered grey doors of the old barn. The rusted hinges of t… Read More
Committed: Civil Rights and the Struggle for JusticeValerie Sweeney PrinceCivil rights were first constitutionalized in the 13th Amendment. However, the fact of civil rights as a… Read More
I never really get all of the nostalgia for the 90’s. I
mean, I was there, we had some fun, but people always forget all the really
nasty stuff like the riots, the AIDS crisis, and wh… Read More
Twitchy already checked in with ABC News chief political analyst Matthew Dowd regarding the passage of the GOP’s tax reform bill. In short, Dowd, like Chelsea Handler, called into ques… Read More
International YA Translated into EnglishThis post contains affiliate links.One of my reading goals this year is to read more novels from other countries translated into English. I have only… Read More
William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure from Sandymount, County Dublin. He is widely considered as one of the mo… Read More
Finding the ideal focus strategy for your meditation method suggests opening as several doors as possible.
In my very early years of meditation, I wasted many hrs asking yourself which… Read More
Sapphic RetellingsThis post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.I'm wanting to try and read more f… Read More
My Most Anticipated YA Retellings From July - Dec 2019This post contains affiliate links.Titles marked with an asterisk (*) were gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest revie… Read More
The Purge’s latest chapter “Grief Box” examines the act of Purging causing a spiraling addiction to violence rather than the NFFA’s promise of release. Its lead case… Read More
Artist Debbie Lawson: Disrupting Ordinary Perception With 3 Dimensional Persian Oriental Carpet Sculptures
The world of artist Debbie Lawson is one of color and an exploration of the imagina… Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approximates that 20 percent of American grownups are living with persistent discomfort, defined as experiencing pain most or everyday… Read More
Researchers have pinned their hopes of time travel on the fact that laws of physics do not explicitly disallow temporal displacement. Despite being a mysterious phenomenon in the quantum mec… Read More
Nobody Knows I’m Here is directed by Gaspar Antillo and stars American actor/comedian Jorge Garcia. The film is about a young, silent man who lives a cloistered life on a sheep ranch w… Read More
After almost a quarter-century at its famed location at the northwest corner of Ohio and Clark, River North’s Rainforest Cafe location is closing a year early. The jungle-themed restau… Read More
From its swanky, dapper, jazzed up soundtrack to its romantic pairing of a disillusioned, going through the motions, sunglasses indoors book writer and hypnotizing, free spirit dancer living… Read More
As the U.S. Imagines a Clean Energy Future, Policymakers can find Inspiration in the remarkable Energy Transition in Iceland. Today, Iceland is the World's Largest Green Energy Producer per… Read More
Is healthy eating part of your New Year’s resolution? Well, then. Check out where you can get the best signature vegetarian dish in Chicago from your favorite chefs and restaurants. Al… Read More
FREDDIE GIBBS’ ALBUM $OUL $OLD $EPARATELY ARRIVES SEPTEMBER 30; NEW SINGLE "TOO MUCH" FT. MONEYBAGG YO OUT NOW!Gary, Indiana native Freddie Gibbs unleashes his urgent new single… Read More
Creative writing is a type of writing that aims to communicate a narrative through powerful written ideas with an emotional impact. This type of writing includes poetry, short stories, novel… Read More
Margot Robbie recreated another iconic Barbie look at the European premiere of the Barbie movie. Concerns about protests were raised but no action was taken. Robbie wore a pastel silk gown i… Read More
Argentine publicist Santiago Barros has used artificial intelligence (AI) to create images of what the children of parents who disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship might look… Read More