PHILADELPHIA – By the time he was eight-years-old, Jawara Griffin, was abandoned by his crack-addicted mother and left squatting with his siblings in a condemned crack house with no running water or electricity. Rather than become debilitated by the trauma he encountered while homeless, living in foster care and groupContinue Reading
Did Elton John embellish anything for his book like his stories about Michael Jackson not being able to handle adult company and Tina Turner being abusive towards him?  [youtube id=”yjG33BOUAUE”] Did Diddy really send the group Total to beat up Wendy Williams back in the ’90s? [youtube id=”LDSAMDdtfv4″] NowContinue Reading
American author, editor and professor Toni Morrison passed yesterday at age 88 after falling ill with pneumonia. Morrison’s name came into the mainstream when her Pulitzer-prize winning Beloved was made into the 1998 feature film directed by Jonathan Demme. Her lauded first two novels The Bluest Eye and Sula openedContinue Reading
Ridgeville, SC – It was 1968 when literary giant Horace Mungin penned his first published work, “Dope Hustler’s Jazz,” part one of a two-volume set of anti-drug poetry. “Dope Hustler’s Jazz” was the beginning of a writing career that started in the Black Arts Movement and would extend over five decadesContinue Reading