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...

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.

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

It’s a surprise to me that after seeing this film with all of its brutality, its exhibitions of man’s grotesque inhumanity to man, that what I feel is relief. I tossed and turned the night after seeing the film and listening to Director Steve McQueen and his two main stars, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender discuss their experience of making the film.