Kai Harris’ debut novel is a stirring story of a transformative summer for a Black girl growing up in 1990s Michigan. What the Fireflies Knew drops us directly into the mind of 10-year-old Kenyatta, known as KB, who has discovered her father’s dead body in the garage of their home on a “dead-end street” in
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Lan Samantha Chang’s fourth book, the terrific novel The Family Chao, draws inspiration from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, in which three brothers struggle against their father’s tyrannical behavior. Instead of 19th-century Russia, Chang’s dialogue-driven novel is set in contemporary Haven, a small town in Wisconsin where larger-than-life patriarch Leo Chao and his wife, Winnie,
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Sidney Poitier, the actor and activist who broke color barriers in Hollywood and starred in some of the most iconic movies ever made, has died. The office of the Bahamian Minister of Foreign Affairs has confirmed Sidney’s death to TMZ … however, the circumstances surrounding his passing are not yet known, nor do we know
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Kanye West‘s Presidential campaign was a total bust — and cost him serious points in his marriage — but that doesn’t mean he’s not keeping his political friends close … dining with Jared Kushner in Miami. Ye donned a neon hoodie, as he met up with Kushner — the former Senior Advisor to President Trump,
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New York City native Moises Arias was only 12 years old when his celeb status topped the charts after he took on the wacky role of Rico Suave — the cool younger classmate who hangs at Seaview High and beachside in his concession stand– on the crazy popular Disney sitcom “Hannah Montana” back in 2006!
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