Bernice L. McFadden

in this episode on this, her 94th birthday, my grandmother talks about not believing she’s 94, the hazards of smoking and drinking and the bullshit that some folk call love.

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Happy Birthday, Bernice L. McFadden @queenazsa. Harlan & his trumpeter friend leave the USA to perform at a cabaret in Montmartre. Then comes the Nazi occupation, & the young men are thrown into the Buchenwald concentration camp, irreparably changing the course of Harlan's life.

UPDATE: the gentleman who threatened to release Speaker Mike Johnson's Grindr account

Fun fact: Steak & Shake owner Sardar Biglari is a refugee who emigrated from Iran to escape an authoritarian theocracy He is also the largest shareholder of Cracker Barrel

@Earthatone Thank you!!!😘😘

Happy Belated Birthday to one of my faves, the illustrious @queenazsa. #BerniceMcFadden

BREAKING NEWS: Nobel Prize committee announces that @realDonaldTrump has been permanently disqualified from all future awards due to his renaming US Defense Dept "Department of War."

Well actually… A thread.

‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at Octavia E. Butler nytimes.com/2025/08/23/boo… via @NYTimes “One of the biography’s most compelling themes is Butler’s sustained critique of American imperialism.”

At least 20 people injured and two killed in a mass shooting just now at Annunciation Catholic Church and its school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prayers aren’t working. We need action. If prayers worked a house of prayer wouldn’t experience this.

"Black people are the first people. Black people are the mothers and fathers of everybody on this planet."

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Saturday:

"build my career." I can talk about erasure here but that's something I'll touch on in another post. Anyway, it's just like what Mark Twain said about history not always repeating itself but definitely rhyming....

and I have a hand written letter from the late, great Toni Morrison, praising my sophomore novel: The Warmest December. I'm telling you all of that to tell you this: A few weeks ago a publishing professional stated that this new novel I'm working on could be used as a stepping

Back in 2008, I was trying to find a home for my novel: Glorious. Editor after editor rejected the book claiming that there wasn't an audience for the story. It was a repeat of what I had experienced in the early 90's when I was trying to find a home for my debut novel: SUGAR.