It’s always wonderful to be recognized by your beloved community! Recently, I was spotlighted in WriteGirl’s impactful newsletter. The newsletter features some of my earliest thoughts about the writing program when I joined in high school! I’m wowed by my…
The Free Black Women’s Library LA just had their first book swap at the Reparations Club and it was a total hit! People across Los Angeles came with a book and left with a totally different one. As a first…
The Los Angeles Times presents a treat for the community with their 2019 Festival of Books. The literary festival celebrates books as well as writers, poets, and various literary genres. It's a massive weekend event, free and open to the…
Welcome to the writing club! I'm creating weekly writing prompts to inspire everyone who has an inner writer to get started, unstuck, or to revive the writing process. I've felt the need to come up with creative ways to maintain my…
Food Justice & Revitalized Diets A part of supporting personal well-being is making conscious choices about the quality of food we eat. Maintaining a healthy diet can feel impossible sometimes for many reasons like being part of a family with…
Stellar comedian and host of the Daily Show, Trevor Noah knows how to tell a harrowing and enlightening story. His autobiography, Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, is genuinely breathtaking. The Guardian called it "Essential reading" and I…
Have you heard the big news? Science fiction and Afro-Futurist writer, Nnedi Okorafor is expanding Marvel's Black Panther world. I've followed Okorafor's career for quite some time. I started by reading her Hugo-Award winning trilogy Binti. It's genre-expanding, actively envisioning African characters, specifically…
The Star Panel Get ready to add a few epic novels to your summer reading list! Bestselling authors Tomi Adeyemi, Victoria Aveyard, and Sabaa Tahir spoke to eager fans (myself included) about their latest novels for Entertainment Weekly’s YA Fantasy…
I waited months, actually almost a year, for this book to drop by a fresh new voice in fantasy fiction, Tomi Adeyemi. Children of Blood and Bone is a debut young adult novel by the Nigerian-American author. It's a bold dive into…