February was a busy month!
I did three Road Scholar presentations this month. Elmhurst Publoc Library. Galesburg Public Library. Rock Springs Nature Center.
I attended the Humanties Breakfast where I met National Endowment for the Humanties Chair Shelly Lowe.
I attended the Bill Johnson Black Film Festival with cast and crew of the short film, The Invitation.
I am tired now.
It was a good Black History Month.
You find out what you love when you are put to the test. If you love it, it stays. If you don’t love it, you allow it to go.
Phyllis Wheatley Peters wrote from the intersection of childhood, womanhood, slave, former slave, married woman, Christian and human being.
Phyllis loved writing. She wrote her entire life. But as a young girl she found herself in the room with some of the most powerful men in the country who thought she was incapable of writing so well.
She showed them who she was and that she was very capable.
I have a passion for telling the stories of African Americans.
We have lived lives that need to be recited and passed on to encourage those coming along. Some of the stories I love because my people overcame evil, while others I do not because they did not.
As the passion grows for the storytelling, the love will grow for the stories.
We will all love African American history.
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.
Only something as powerful as love could make her face this type of demon. But would it be enough? 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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Phillis Wheatley showed a passion for words and learning as a young girl. Despite the trauma taking place in her world, she showed a love for the written words of her captors.
Love had a dark side as she probably missed all of her family.
But it had a light side, teaching her to love communicating through words.
It is her destiny, and like most, she has a problem with it.
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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