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September 21, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us Pressby Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)Mavis Staples is eighty-four years old as I peck these words.…
September 20, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us PressAccording to Forbes.com, statistics from a publicly-available U.S. Department of Education database reveal that six-year graduation rates (a commonly-used metric in…
September 20, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us Pressby Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)I’m back with another batch of tracks. “AfroBowie” is a collection…
September 17, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us Pressby Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)Happy Labor Day, y’all! It is no toil for me to…
September 17, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us PressThis pointed question from the recently released trailer for Donyale Luna: Super Model will hopefully no longer be relevant after the…
September 17, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us Pressby Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Twitter: @marlonw IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest)This June 3rd was the 81st anniversary of Curtis Mayfield’s birth.…
September 17, 2023Home About About the Editors Contact Us Pressby Jeff Meier (FB: Jeff.Meier.90)This July, as we endure the latest triple digit temperature heatwave, or navigate flight cancellations in our…
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne…
I have loved reading for so long that it isn’t a surprise that I’m now running 2 book clubs – one here in Normandy where I live (It’s been going…
I’ll be trying to participate in the Runwright Reads Summer Reading Challenge which is June 21 – September 23, 2023. Now I’m already participating in a few more reading challenges…