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MUSINGS
The underlying theme that runs through this section is that we should support our stories – the serious, the silly and the substantial… we own our history, our culture, the ebb & flow of our journey…. and it’s not one thing.. it’s as much a rainbow of themes as we are a rainbow of people.
“Underground Railroad”
“Underground Railroad” By Colson Whitehead. Please read this book. Reading black writers helps me put the madness of this week into a manageable hierarchy of human experience.
Heading home to LA!
Did I know that Kansas City, MO was so lovely? No? Well it is! Spent 2 days with the MFA Theatre students and with Ricardo Khan and Sibusiso Mamba (South African writer/actor who now lives and works in London) doing an intensive on Freedom Summer 1964 and South African journey out of Apartheid- the basis for the new play we’re writing.
My new project: “Freedom Summer”
Butterflies congregating in my stomach. Yikes! A new project looms! God, please give me the strength, the energy, the heart and the brains to do a better-than-good job! Thank You!!
Chicago Winter (poem)
Whisper winter’s silence all still but the empty cold waves enticing me to roll along the tumbling shore. Shadows of a rusty kneed laughing boy who has long since relinquished his dreams of summer joy. I stand where he played. As close as my feet shoed, stockinged...
Actress and novelist Denise Nicholas draws from her experiences in the civil rights movement
Denise Nicholas was 19 years old when she interrupted her pre-law studies at the University of Michigan to travel to the Deep South and the heart of the American Civil Rights Movement. It was a dangerous time and place for a young activist, but even her frightened parents couldn’t dissuade her from what she perceived as a righteous cause.
10th Annual ‘Fall Into Fiction’ EXTRAVAGANZA
United California African-American Bookclubs 10th Annual 'Fall Into Fiction' EXTRAVAGANZA Sept. 22-25, 2016 @ DoubleTree Hotel by Hilton, 2 Civic Plaza Drive, Carson, CA 90745 Featured acclaimed authors includes Denise Nicholas