Posted on March 24, 2014     Leave a Comment

The famous ballet dancer Misty Copeland spoke recently on the MSNBC Melissa Harris Perry Show of how great ballet dancers are also great athletes. I agree with her. I write about that comparison in my novel LOLA & THE WORLD OF BUDDY SHORTT. Lola Flemings is an African American ballet dancer who switches to modern […]

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A Different Kind of Crime Thriller

Posted on March 3, 2014     Leave a Comment

If you like James Patterson’s thrillers, you will love THE BISHOP’S GRANDDAUGHTERS by Will Gibson. In this novel when investigating certain missing pages in the family Bible that had come into her possession, Rev. Flowers learns of a grisly double murder in 1910. Was her beloved grandfather, an esteemed bishop and founder of her church, […]

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Dealing With The “N” Word In The Daughters of Joe Stubbs

Posted on August 4, 2013     Leave a Comment

Dealing with the “N” word, in my novel Rev. Moore said when speaking of the young people who attended his church on Youth Night: “For that reason the kids agreed unanimously that, in view of this history, there can never be a situation in which whites are justified in using the word ‘nigger’ when speaking […]

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Oprah Winfrey has no tolerance for “N” word

Posted on August 4, 2013     Leave a Comment

WHAT DOES THE WORD “NIGGER” REALLY MEAN? Reading this article on Oprah again causes me to ask the question: What does the word “nigger” really means. Please indulge me and allow me to quote from my novel THE DAUGHTERS OF JOE STUBBS which might explain what I mean. Let me set the scene: One day […]

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Oprah Winfrey speaking about the “N” word

Posted on August 4, 2013     Leave a Comment

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An NBA Basketball Salute To Northern California

Posted on August 4, 2013     Leave a Comment

Beautiful Terri Ross must choose between her longtime college sweetheart who has become a famous NBA basketball star, and a brilliant songwriter she meets later. In the novel Terri’s boyfriend plays for the Golden State Warriors. In real life this summer, some booksellers in the Bay area of Northern California celebrated A SONG FOR TERRI […]

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