Originally posted on Mind of a Bourgeois Black Girl:
If I can remember correctly I was about 11 years old the first time I watched the 1975 classic “Cooley High”. I remember it being an instant favorite and I watched it over and over for a month. [I couldn’t get enough of Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs]. Last…
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It is 1942, and the world is at war, however, Gladys Bostick Holmes is fighting personal battles of her own. Recently widowed, and a single mother of six children, Gladys has relocated to Calhoun County, South Carolina where she struggles to put her life back together. But, for an African-American woman in the racist, Jim… Continue reading Honey in the Rock, Sequel to Candy in the Sand
Originally posted on Wrapped in Rainbows:
Source: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
Originally posted on Wrapped in Rainbows:
Jael was my deepest writing challenge to date. I prayed my way through every word, sentence, and paragraph. I had to put a face on Jael, give her an identity, a story line, and all of it had to line up with the Word of God. Jael is little…
Originally posted on Wrapped in Rainbows:
Suicide, African American Families, Black History, Great Depression, Pullman Porters, GenealogyCandy in the Sand profiles the struggles the Holmes family faced during the Great Depression. Will and Gladys Holmes pictured here in 1928 shortly after their marriage. Will Holmes was cook on the Railroad trains. It was a good…
Once upon a time there was a little girl from the hood who wanted to write books. One day her daddy came home with an ancient Remington typewriter from the rummage sale. Soon she had hunted and pecked her way to a bunch of short stories and poems. The following is one of her first… Continue reading President John F. Kennedy
Once Upon a time there was a little girl in the hood who wanted to write books 