Archive for February, 2022
Women and Adversity: Gwendolyn Brooks, First Black to Win a Pulitzer Prize
February 24, 2022I met Gwendolyn Brooks in 1990 when I asked her to be a featured speaker in a writers’ conference I organized at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She was one of the most g ...
Women and Adversity: Maya Angelou Author, Poet, Actress, Activist
February 10, 2022When I read that Maya Angelou had written seven autobiographies, I doubted she could maintain interest about her life through all those books. How wrong I was. I Know Why the Caged Bir ...