Black History is Music History
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Book of the Quarter
It is Black History Month. I love being African American. I love history. This month I will share different moments from the Book of the Quarter, Destiny’s Dilemma. This week in history we will celebrate music. In this scene Zo, our heroine entertains her mother with music she knows she will like.
“Mama I want you to hear this.”
After getting back from the long afternoon, she brought her mother into the parlor and made her comfortable. She enjoyed this time with her. They could talk in a way they had not before.
“Is this some of them blues?”
“Mama, listen.”
Zo started the phonograph. Hattie listened for a few minutes, then looked at her daughter.
“Is she…”
“Singing about Jesus. Yes ma’am. I told you some of these new fangle things could be used for the good.”
Zo giggled at herself. She loved the surprised look on her mother’s face. She enjoyed watching her mother settle in and listen.
“What Baptist church she go to?” her mother asked about the woman singing.
“Mama she one of them holy rollers.”
“You don’t say.”
“This little girl’s name is Arizona. She from around this way, up in Sherman.”
“She can sing. The lambs blood washed me clean. I like that.”
Her mother reclined on the sofa and listened to church music.
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.
Available on Amazon.com or Books2read.com which include Barnes & Noble, Apple, Indigo and more.
Is It Better Than Comfort Food?
Kind of like comfort food, this series is one of those shows that has lots of familiar things the audience has grown comfortable with. In this new spin off, they have changed the recipe. Will it work? Will these sisters still gain their Law & Order degrees? Listen to hear.
Episode Law And Order
TV Talk and Black History
In celebration of Black History Month, Regina and I are going to share some of our favorites with you. This week it is our top favorite movies.
Today’s Quote
Book of the Quarter
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.
Available on Amazon.com
or Books2read.com which include Barnes & Noble, Apple, Indigo and more
Is She All That?
How many roles can an actor take on at the same time and still do a good job? The Sistas talk about if this is possible when they discuss Hacks and the legend in the role. Listen and like it.
08Listen Episode 5 Hacks
Book of the Quarter
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.
Available on Amazon.com
or Books2read.com which include Barnes & Noble, Apple, Indigo and more.
Is It Worth The Subscription Fee
Have you ever watched a show and felt like you were beaten as bad as one of the bad guys in the show? The Sistas talk about a show that has a whole different way to tell a mystery. Listen and see if it is worth that month of HBO.
Listen Mare of East Town
Book of the Quarter
Usually when I write there is a song in my head. Yes, there was a playlist for this book. I tried to think about the type of music they would have been exposed to in 1912. They would have seen performers traveling from town to town. There would be sheet music that musicians can play. She would have seen people like Ma Rainey singing the blues. Ragtime would be in full swing, but starting to wane.
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.
Available on Amazon.com
or Books2read.com which include Barnes & Noble, Apple, Indigo and more.
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