Despite her strong associations with Massachusetts - her upbringing in Roxbury, her lifelong connection with Martha's Vineyard, and two novels documenting the Great Migration and the rise and decline of Boston's African American community - Dorothy West (1907-1998) is perhaps best known as a member of the Harlem Renaissance. Between 1927 and 1947, West and her cousin, the poet Helen Johnson, lived in New York City, where West attended Columbia University, worked as a welfare investigator, wrote for the WPA, traveled to Russia, and established a literary magazine for young black writers....

Davis imparts the story of Miriam, older sister of Moses, whose journey to faith in the midst of slavery speaks to all who ask, "Where is God in suffering and inequity?"

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most prominent of the Harlem Renaissance women writers, was unique because her social and professional connections were not limited to literature but encompassed theatre, dance, film, anthropology, folklore, music, politics, high society, academia, and artistic bohemia. Hurston published four novels, three books of nonfiction, and dozens of short stories, plays, and essays. In addition, she won a long list of fellowships and prizes, including a Guggenheim and a Rosenwald. Yet by the 1950s, Hurston, like most of her Harlem Renaissance peers, had faded into...

This is me sharing some things that will help you to navigate this journey that is our Christian walk. Nuggets picked up along the way. I have a desire to speak to you as my grandmother spoke to my siblings and I. Thank God she did this throughout our childhood, because as I write this book, she is residing in a Nursing Home, traveling in between realities. So, I continue to bless the Lord for the seeds she sowed into us as a family because they shall bear fruit for generations to come. My purpose with this publication is to speak forth my love into your hearts, by the power of God in the...