Fire & Ink Presents! Newark-Essex Black Pride (Newark, NJ) “Why Do You Write/Read and How Do You Succeed?” Join panelists Cheril N. Clarke, Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, John Keene, Tawanna Sullivan, and Rev. Kevin E. Taylor as they discuss what motivates them to produce work, and how the books they read and the lives theyContinue reading “Come and see me talk about the writing life…”
Category Archives: Books & Writing
Charlie Chan & Race…
I’ve actually read all of those Charlie Chan novels. I want to write about race/racism in them, but I need to sit down and organize my thoughts about that. There’s so many different components: the anti-Japanese sentiment, racism as a tell-tale sign of class, the way Charlie Chan is treated by his friends, etc. Let’sContinue reading “Charlie Chan & Race…”
Reading Charlie Chan
When I found out about Yunte Huang’s Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (whew!) – I put it on my “to read” list. In addition to exploring the life of Chang Apana (the real life inspiration of Charlie Chan), the author discuses racism in the ChanContinue reading “Reading Charlie Chan”
Tawanna Sullivan 