When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and signing books there. But what she gets instead is a firsthand look at the murder of a controversial African American writer. James Simpson Lee Hastings's death sends seismic shock waves through Los Angeles's black and white elite, and reveals how some of the city's well-to-do are connected in ways they'd rather leave unmentioned. But trying to unravel those connections might mean that the next time Alex's name shows up in her paper, it won't be as a...
When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and sign...
Who killed Ev and why? The three most likely suspects are Ev's competitors -- publishers of the country's other popular black magazines who all had plenty of good reasons to make sure Ev never received his Journalist of the Year award.
With the help of Paul Butler, a fellow journalist and an old friend, Alex tries to untangle the circumstances that led to Ev Carson's death. Their investigative trail will carry them from the West Coast to the East, to D.C., New York, and the social whirl of Martha's Vineyard as the summer season reaches its peak. In the middle of dissed...
Who killed Ev and why? The three most likely suspects are Ev's competitors -- publishers of the country's other popular black magazines wh...
On Tuesday November 4, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama reflected on the life of Anne Nixon Cooper: "she's seen throughout her century in America--the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told we can't; and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes, we can."? Empowered and energized by this history-making presidential campaign, Mrs. Cooper will tell her story in her own voice. A Century and Some Change is the portrait of an American who lived a rewarding and culturally rich life despite racial discrimination and economic...
On Tuesday November 4, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama reflected on the life of Anne Nixon Cooper: "she's seen throughout her century in America--t...
