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![]() ![]() She has edited two books, From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement Literature and Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature. In 2018, she published Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song. ![]() Her book A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men received the 2011 Outstanding Scholarship in Africana Studies Award from the National Council for Black Studies. She is the author or editor of six books. At UNCG, she works with librarians to expand the archival presence of the local Black community, including interviews with Black Lives Matter protestors and organizers for the Triad Black Lives Matter collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the events leading up to and following the ascension of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency following William McKinley's assassination, it includes pithy portraits of such leading public figures of the day as Roosevelt, Hearst, Henry Brooks Adams, Henry James, Secretary of State John Hay and President William McKinley. As with Vidal's other books in his Narratives of Empire series, this novel offers an insight into the journalism of the time, following the exploits of William Randolph Hearst in his efforts to displace Theodore Roosevelt as president in 1904. Playing these characters against real-life figures of the years 1898 to 1907, the novel portrays the conjunction of government and mass media in the creation of modern-day America. The novel concerns the fictional newspaper dynasty of half-sibling characters Caroline and Blaise Sanford. Empire is the fourth historical novel in the Narratives of Empire series by Gore Vidal, published in 1987. ![]() ![]() She became increasingly obsessed by Jimmy and he, in turn, robbed her of her reputation and her last shreds of judgment. But the depth of the burgeoning sexual relationship between Donahue and the Duchess took its toll on the Duke, who began to drink heavily to wile away the lonely hours while his wife and her consort spent time together. Jimmy, the Duke and the Duchess became inseparable - and Jimmy always paid. The Duchess was 54 - 19 years his senior - but the sexual attraction between them was instant. Jimmy's sexual exploits - until he met the Duchess - were strictly homosexual, at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal. ![]() His Fifth Avenue apartment became the backdrop for a series of infamous parties. He would shower friends with expensive gifts and flowers, seize bills in clubs and restaurants and lavishly tip waiters. People loved his wit, charm and generosity. He was loved and, within the confines of AmericaAs upper class, he was notorious. He could fly a plane, speak several languages, play the piano, tell marvellous jokes. ![]() Jimmy Donahue was 35 when he met the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. This book is the remarkable story of their extraordinary friendship. In 1950, James Paul Donahue inherited a $15 million Woolworth's fortune and on the same day met the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. ![]() ![]() Together they founded the first and most successful magazine on African American entrepreneurship, Black Enterprise, which absolutely leveled the playing field for men and women of color in business. for many years, and I consider he and his late wife, Barbara Kydd Graves, dear friends. “I am fortunate to have known Earl Graves, Sr. “Today, we mourn the passing of a visionary leader and titan of business, entrepreneurship, and media: Earl G. ![]() LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, issued a statement on the death of the founder of Black Enterprise, Earl G. ![]() ![]() If There Be Thorns is being adapted by Andy Cochran ( Siberia), Seeds of Yesterday will be by Darren Stein ( Jawbreaker, G.B.F.), and My Sweet Audrina will be by Scarlett Lacey. The casting for the third and fourth Dollanganger movies is not yet set. ![]() Heather Graham and Ellen Burstyn have already signed up to reprise their Flowers roles for Petals on the Wind, and the Dollanganger kids' parts have been recast with older actors - Rose McIver will play the adult Cathy (Kiernan Shipka in Flowers), Bailey Buntain (of Bunheads) has been cast as Carrie (Ava Telek in Flowers), and Wyatt Nash will be Christopher (Mason Dye in Flowers). Because it's early going, the timeline of when the movies will air is not yet clear.įlowers in the Attic aired on Lifetime in January and, in addition to getting a lot of nostalgic attention, it drew a robust 6.1 million viewers - the channel's biggest success since Oct. (That would leave Garden of Shadows, the series' prequel, as the sole Dollanganger title remaining.) On top of that, Lifetime will also develop Andrews' lurid, Oedipal novel, My Sweet Audrina. Andrews in 1981, Lifetime brought the third book to the small screen on Sunday with a couple of changes that readers will notice. ![]() The cable channel has already announced that it's moving forward with the sequel to the Andrews' Gothic horror novel, Petals on the Wind, which is filming now.īut, according to a source at the network, Lifetime is developing two more books in the Dollanganger series, If There Be Thorns and Seeds of Yesterday. Looking to capitalize on the success of its adaptation of the incest classic Flowers in the Attic, Lifetime is investing in the V.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() There's something about him that has to be anonymous. He's in a position of power but he's not out front because he's not comfortable there. I had to be very careful about being too full of any personality. Robbins: Bernard is a character who is very much behind the scenes. : In composing your complex Head of IT character, how did you use the confines of the claustrophobic "Silo" sets to help craft that persona? It's not an agenda, it's an accident of the heart. That that comes from a personal journey I think is really important. And in her journey, as she peels layers off of the veneer, she starts to understand deeper truths about the silo. She wants to find out how her loved one died. But most importantly, how there's something in the human spirit, embodied in this story by Juliette, that is irrepressible. I don't think Hugh Howey faced those kinds of challenges, but what he did was create an amazing allegory about what truth is, what freedom is, and what happens in a society where truth is suppressed. ![]() ![]() He is the author of ten books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ including The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague, The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name and Facts are Subversive. Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. ![]() Spoken word artist Madi Maxwell-Libby will perform several pieces about Brexit and Europe. Timothy Garton Ash will be joined in conversation by Paul Scheffer. A lot can happen between now and June, let alone October… What will Brexit look like in the end? What are the changes of a second referendum? And what will happen in the coming months in the UK? Guardian columnist and Oxford professor Timothy Garton Ash discusses the current developments in the UK around Brexit and his expectations for the future. In the meantime, the political parties in the UK are making last minute preparations for a European election they never expected to take part in, and which Theresa May is still hoping to avoid by passing a Brexit deal between now and May 22. ![]() ![]() Also live stream via /debalie The decision to delay Brexit until October 31, temporarily lowered the temperature of the crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() He reached down through the water to his pocket, withdrew two old, rusty nails, and held them tightly. Deep in his chest, he felt the soft and curious rustling that meant They’d entered the cage room. God’s attentions were for those with souls, a status he’d lacked for a thousand years or more. Haven’t I paid enough? He prayed for Them to go back where They came from, but he didn’t expect an answer. Above the well, the howls fell away they’d lost the scent. ![]() How long had he been doing this? As long as he could remember. The water’s chilly touch crawled farther up his neck and he tightened his grip, looking up to the clear night sky. They’ll lose your scent in the stream and they’ll never find you here. He closed his eyes, concentrating on keeping his hold on the old well’s uneven sides, willing his heart to slow. Somewhere in the distance, the eerie wail of the hounds quickened his heartbeat. Long enough for his fingers to tire of holding his head above water. ![]() Long enough for the bone-cold water to drive the feeling from his legs. He didn’t know how long he’d been clinging there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After sobering up the next morning, he feels a modicum of remorse but returns to drinking. In response, the narrator loses control and cuts one of Pluto's eyes out with a pen-knife. He remains less harsh to Pluto until one day, when he comes home drunk and, imagining that Pluto is avoiding him, he seizes the cat, which bites him on the hand in fear. In subsequent years, the narrator becomes increasingly moody and irritable due to alcoholism, and he begins to verbally abuse and threaten his wife as well as his pets. Although his wife often refers to the superstition that black cats are actually disguised witches, the narrator is particularly fond of the unusually intelligent cat. In their household they have a number of animals, including a large and beautiful black cat named Pluto. ![]() He begins by describing his kind and humane younger self: he keeps many pets because animals such as dogs are so loving and faithful, and at a young age he marries a woman who also loves pets. Because he is due to die the next day, the narrator has decided to present the facts of a past event that has terrified and destroyed him, although he claims that he is not mad and hopes that someone else will be able to explain his story logically. ![]() |