My good friend Chris Chambers posted this entry on his blog. Please see below for the sad state of affairs at Tufts… http://natturnersrevenge.blogspot.com/2006/12/holiday-cheer-from-hitler-youth.html Wednesday, December 13, 2006Holiday Cheer from the Hitler Youth Whilst the worldContinue reading
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McNally Robinson Panel
Last Tuesday I joined authors Bridgett Davis and Martha Southgate to discuss “The Black Female Literary Tradition” at McNally Robinson Books in SoHo. After naming some of our favorite authors (Martha loves Toni Morrison, BridgettContinue reading
another bk party
Professor Joyce Toney, former chair of both the Africana and the Women’s Studies Departments at Hunter, hosted a book party for me in her beautiful Brooklyn home last night. Khisekh Salaam from Hue Man BooksContinue reading
Harlem World at Tribal Spears
This past Thursday I headed uptown to sit on an amazing panel hosted by Harlem World magazine and moderated by Troy Johnson of the African American Literary Book Club (www.AALBC.com). Panelists included Flores Forbes (authorContinue reading
sekou sundiata at bam
the best response to 9-11, to america since 9-11, to katrina. the best response i’ve ever seen to us. to who we are, now. “the 51st (dream) state” video, song, instrumentation. poetry. art saving us,Continue reading
the elections
I’m still high from the recent elections, though I wish Harold Ford Jr. had been successful in his run for the Senate. I supported his campaign, along with Obama’s and Clinton’s, here in New York.Continue reading
amazing conference!
I was so happy to celebrate Black Solidarity Day at Medgar Evers College here in Brooklyn. The college hosted a conference, called “The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas,” and IContinue reading
great video and prose poem
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3f0dPclXhk A former Hunter student of mine, the very talented Ryan Collazo, has performed his prose poem over the images of a short film. Click the link and check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3f0dPclXhk
Oaxaca
Link: http://asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com/ This information on Oaxaca, Mexico has been circulating among conscious folk for some time now. Please, if you haven’t received this message already, click on the link and view video documentation of theContinue reading
Book Party
My wonderful writing group sisters, Amanda Inshall and Bridgett Davis, co-hosted a lovely book party for me in Bridgett’s Park Slope home. So many great folk turned out to celebrate the publication of Crystelle Mourning,Continue reading
More Pictures from Bridgett’s!
The fellas – from left to right: my husband, Ralph Richardson John McGregor Neil Crump and Chris Jackson
Washington Post Review
The Glory of Love by Kuwana Haulsey, author of the novels “The Red Moon” and “Angel of Harlem” With its languid pacing and rhythmic voice, Eisa Nefertari Ulen’s novel ” Crystelle Mourning” at times feelsContinue reading
Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature
– by RaShell R. Smith-Spears Eisa Nefertari Ulen’s first Hip Hop inspired novel It is the story of Crystelle Brown, a young Black professional from West Philly who seems to have a bright future. However,Continue reading
Black Issues Book Review
“These characters draw breath and interact with a flow and grace unlike so many novels published today — A marvelous read.” — Robert Fleming in Black Issues Book Review’s Blacks & Books
Tayari Jones Blog
Tayari Jones Blog – Shot Up, Locked Up, or Somethin’ by Eisa Ulen I met Eisa years ago and she said she was “working on a novel.” She had that look on her face thatContinue reading
Royal Gazette review
How a passing comment in the street led to a novel I’m just going to have his baby before he gets locked up or shot up, was the comment from a teenage girl passing onContinue reading