Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry author of the drama, A Raisin in the Sun, had a background in Chicago as an African American. Her drama parallels a true episode from her life.
Author: Mary Alice Dillman
Summer in New York
Attempting to forget the past, “the world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it has turned your flesh into its own cupboards. Not everything you remember is useful, but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.” (Quoted from Caudia Rankine in her book Citizen) … Continue reading Summer in New York
The Ducks
Friday, May 25, 2018 was an ordinary day except it begins my story on that day…
The Island of TINOS
Tinos Island in the Aegean Sea has a soul. It is a canvas of the beauty of nature. The golden sand beaches, country chapels, white-washed homes and buildings, ravines, tiered mountainsides, and unforgettable violet-colored sunsets dramatize beautiful scenery.
Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is the author of The Underground Railroad (2016), the 2018 Common Book for all first-year students at Otterbein University. On Tuesday, October 23, I had the privilege of hearing this Pulitzer Prize finalist expound on his metaphoric use of “underground railroad,” meaning the travel through “human hands” of those who are sacrificing their … Continue reading Colson Whitehead