Foreign Tongues and Chocolate Tartes
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I am a former Broadway (New York City) actress. Since early 2002 I have been working a a ghost writer of political and enviromental issues.
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HOLY SH_T!!!!!
Posted on 07/03/2012
Clarence Lusane’s book Hitlers Black Victims includes interviews with Black survivors of Nazi concentration camps in Germany. Enough said. (google image) Next…a...
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FANTABULOUS ABROAD
Posted on 06/03/2012
The American Prohibition Era , one can say, enhanced the lives of many black Americans who might have otherwise been relegated to a life of banal existence accompanied by predicable racial...
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There Is Absolutely No Excuse For This!
Posted on 26/02/2012
In a Northern Italian city back in the early 80s I met a young black woman with two young children. Actually I was introduced to this young woman, by an Italian friend who thought I...
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Enfin…Pressé Comme Un Citron!
Posted on 27/01/2012
The 13th adopted child, Jean Claude Baker, collaborated with author Chris Chase on the life of the most extraordinary gift America has willingly handed over to France. His mom, by adoption,...
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MAKING SPANISH OMELETTES
Posted on 22/01/2012
And now, for the Spanish experience… Kinky Gazpacho is a memoir by author, journalist and professor, Lori Tharps. Ms. Tharps begins her life journey in the predominantly white...
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CRYING THE BLUES IN MONTMARTRE
Posted on 21/01/2012
Rendez-vous Eighteenth has been considered “crime fiction.” I’m not sure I agree with this. I’m leaning more toward classifying, if you must, Jake Lamar’s...
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A BLACK BOY IN NAZI GERMANY
Posted on 16/01/2012
At the risk of understating the content of this review, this is a bit of a diversion in tone from the previous ones, but exceedingly noteworthy as an expat novel/memoir. This story is not...
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A Book Review: A Black Girl Chasing After Baldwin
Posted on 12/01/2012
On the cover of Shay Youngblood’s novel, Black Girl in Paris, is a black woman with blue eyes, gazing into the void, it seems. She is smoking a cigarette and her hair is...
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Stepping Forward In Weighted Clogs
Posted on 29/12/2011
“Child, who’s going to do your hair if you take off with this man to Holland?” challenged a voice inside my head not even a minute after my Dutch boyfriend of...
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Midlife Tales on the French Riviera
Posted on 23/12/2011
Review of Ladyfingers: A Novel “Black folks on the French Riviera? Get outta here! The French Riviera is a location for F. Scott Fitzgerald characters, not Terry...
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