""Part lyrical narrative, part bluesy riff, part schoolyard chant and part holy incantation" ― New York TimesLucy Negro, Redux, uses the lens of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady" sonnets to explore the way questions about and desire for the black female body have evolved over time, from Elizabethan England to the Jim Crow South to the present day. Equally interested in the sensual and the serious, the erotic and the academic, this collection exp ..."
" A lively tale of one young woman’s adventure to pass her Official Princess Test, discover a means of escape from her island, and reveal her true destiny. Thirteen-year-old orphan Black Bee Bright (B. B. for short) is funny, quirky, precocious, and adventurous. But B. B. has a secret. She’s captive on an island in “the middle of very tropical nowhere” because she’s forced to hide her true identity as a royally born princess from her p ..."
Soul Food Love Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family : A Cookbook by Alice Randall, CarolineRandallWilliams Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Clarkson Potter ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-3793-5, ISBN: 0-8041-3793-5
"NAACP Image Award WinnerA mother-daughter duo reclaims and redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger. After bestselling author Alice Randall penned an op-ed in the New York Times titled “Black Women and Fat,” chronicling her quest to be “the last fat black woman” in her family, she turned to her daughter, Caroline Randall Will ..."
"Yes, there is barbecue, but that’s just one course of the meal. With Vinegar and Char the Southern Foodways Alliance celebrates twenty years of symposia by offering a collection of poems that are by turns as sophisticated and complex, as vivid and funny, and as buoyant and poignant as any SFA gathering.The roster of contributors includes Natasha Trethewey, Robert Morgan, Atsuro Riley, Adrienne Su, Richard Blanco, Ed Madden, Nikky Finney ..."
"Part Savvy Lit Crit, part Blues chart, part hip revenge-femme-lyric, part imagined Interracial Romance Saga disguised as poems, In Lucy Negro, Redux Caroline Randall Williams plays the literary Race Card and cuts the whole deck, moving backwards in time in and forward in mind, archeologically offering a precise and seductive command performance of the hidden temperament of a specific and beautiful "Dark Lady"--both used and loved. Willi ..."
Soul Food Love Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family : A Cookbook by Alice Randall, CarolineRandallWilliams 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Clarkson Potter ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-3794-2, ISBN: 0-8041-3794-3
"Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family
Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams. As a young single mother with a career
and a baby,I stopped baking pound cake and had no time to source and prep
elaborate fruit salads. I substituted a locally ... In fact, Avon's family match-made
me to David. And Avonand Davidwere friends until Avon's deathin 2005. Not long
after my wedding to David, my mother was ..."