“Domino Players” is an oil painting created by Horace Pippin in 1943. This work is in the public domain.
Family Bible
The girl probably thought she was being sly, sneaking around back of his tractor shed like that.
Marco Etheridge
The Cardboard Box
The cardboard box looked unremarkable—its exterior marred by a few scrapes and its corners rounded over time…
Hayden Von Coombs
Solstice
A strange sadness,
like the cold…
Theo Sterling
A.R.M.
Nobody taught me how to use a condom.
Odi Welter
For The Teenage Girl in the Parking Lot
First I notice your eyes — all red…
Bartholomew Barker
The Collection: Chapter 1 – Mingus Ah Um
It has been a few weeks since I returned home from Little Rock.
Amari Pleasant
From The Public Domain
War and Peace:
Chapter XXIV
There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasíli and the eldest princess…
Leo Tolstoy
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African
I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity…
Olaudah Equiano
Words! Words!
How did it happen that we quarreled?
Jesse Fauset
Potrait
Her eyes? Dark pools of deepest shade…
George Leonard Allen
Riddle
Formed long ago, yet made today
And most employed when others sleep;
What few would like to give away,
And fewer still to keep.
ANSWER
Bed
Do You Know
Founded on March 16, 1827 as a four-page, four-column standard-sized weekly, Freedom’s Journal was the first black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States.
Wise Words
Se tshege eo o oleñ mareledi a sale pele.
Don’t laugh at the fallen, there are slippery places ahead.
Origin: Bechuana
Games
Non-Fic Pick Book Reviews
