Authors & Books

Black faces in White places

Author Randal Pinkett is the season four winner of The Apprentice.
Like all the successful members of their race, every Black American has the potential to redefine the game. That’s what Randal Pinkett and business scholar Jeffrey Robinson believe, based on their considerable experiences in business, the publ...

Getting past old flames no matter how painful

ArquilaTodd.jpg ARLINGTON- According to an article written by Elizabeth Leiba, “Dating for African-American women can be challenging. According to statistics, 42 percent of African-American women and 43 percent of African-American men ages 15 and over have never been married, compared with only 21 percent of White women and 27 percent of White men. This comes from the federal government’s 2004 American Community Survey. With such gloomy statistics, African-American women need to take matters into their own hands.”

 

Black men writers inspiring change

Leonard Pitts

AUSTIN—The fourth Annual Austin African-American Book Festival will feature the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts.  This year’s theme is “Black Men Writers Inspiring Change.” The event is June 26, and will take place on the grounds of the Carver Branch Library and the Carver Museum and Cultural Center.

SEX, RELATIONSHIPS AND THE COLLEGE STUDENT PROFILED IN YA NOVEL

HOUSTON, TEXAS  (May 10, 2010) –  Trek Baden is an incoming freshman at the University of Texas at Austin – the first in her family to attend college. Bombarded with advice on how to be successful – everything from “Trust God with all your heart” to “Marry a white boy!” – it was her grandmother who lovingly encouraged her simply to “cover the coo.” Unfortunately, Trek, who’s dating one guy in Houston and another in Austin, doesn’t listen. Now she’s pregnant, with no clue which one is her baby’s daddy. Very Jerry-Springer-meets-Maury-Povich. Should she accept or abort? What would you do? Cover the Coo, by Alexus Rhone, is the fourth and final-installment in the Trek Baden-series, officially completing Trek’s “trek” to womanhood.