It is so beautiful to me and yet miserable at the same time. I am sure this is what makes me love it.
Beautiful and Miserable
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Book of the Month
Destiny’s Dilemma
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell’s Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
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Black History Month
Alice Walker Beauty In Truth Trailer
Alice Walker was born Georgia in 1944 into a large family which helped define her character and the way she saw the world. She graduated from Sarah Laurence College in 1965, but first she attended Spelman where she met Martin Luther King Jr which influenced her to work as an activist in the South.
Author of several novels, short stories and poetry, Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple which was also made into a motion picture starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey. She won many other awards and honors, and her work focus’ on the lives of African American people and their struggles in a society that is not always for them.
Quarterly Magazine
This is the Winter Issue of Fill In The Gap Winter Issue 2019
The new magazine Fill In The Gap Magazine is designed to give a voice to marginalized groups with helpful information and entertainment. It will also give insight into different cultures.
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Black History Month
Born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1945. The African American playwright won Pulitzers for Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990) which were stories that depicted celebrate the history and poetry of African Americans.
August Wilson’s father did not live with the family, so he took his mother’s maiden name in honor of her. Living in predominantly white communities, Wilson dropped out of school and spent most of his time at the library.
As he tried to further his career as a writer, he worked as a cook, porter, a gardener and a dishwasher. He later founded the Black Horizon Theater in Pittsburgh with his friend. He began to write and produce more of his plays. He wrote more than 16 plays. He won a Tony for Fences and several awards and honors. He died in 2005 of liver cancer.
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Proverbs 16:19 describes what this looks like. Our society would look very different if we built relationship instead of buildings.
