Tag: Selma
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{New Releases} Week 38 (Sept 12-18)
Fiction Hidden In Plain Sight by:Sharon D. Moore Two Pastors. Two Penalties. One Shot at Redemption. When Philly-born playboy, Jason White, discovers a devastating family secret about the identity of his biological father, he launches an angry quest to find and confront the man. A lengthy investigation into his father, a prominent pastor of a…
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{Book Attraction} Blood Brother : Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights by:Rich Wallace, Sandra Neil Wallace
Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as “Bloody Lowndes,” an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil rights workers. Five months later,…
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{Between The Lines} Natalie Baszile ‘Queen Sugar’ To Become OWN Drama Series
It was announced today that Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, will collaborate on a scripted drama series on Winfrey’s OWN. Winfrey will have a recurring role on the series, Queen Sugar, the story of a woman living in Los Angeles who moves with her daughter to her father’s 800-acre sugar cane farm in Louisiana after…