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New York Times did a piece about the dwindling survivors of the Tulsa Race Riot:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/...
My novel, MAGIC CITY is about this race riot. The Governor gave orders to drop dynamite and destroy the Greenwood community (at the time, the most prosperous African American community in America). Typical of the twenties, a black youth was charged with assaulting a white wome... read more »
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/us/...
My novel, MAGIC CITY is about this race riot. The Governor gave orders to drop dynamite and destroy the Greenwood community (at the time, the most prosperous African American community in America). Typical of the twenties, a black youth was charged with assaulting a white wome... read more »
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Ninth Ward
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Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
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Douglass' Women
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Voodoo Season
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Yellow Moon: A Novel
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Magic City
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Hurricane: A Novel
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Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness
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Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
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The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
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AN EXCERPT FROM <em>YELLOW MOON</em> — Jewell’s latest voodoo novel about Marie Laveau’s twenty-first century descendent, a doctor and <em>voodooienne</em>
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“Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
“The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
“But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine.
—Mama Ya-Ya”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
—Mama Ya-Ya”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ninth Ward
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“Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.”
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
― Jewell Parker Rhodes, Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
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Thanks for accepting my friendship. I'm excited about reading your books. I have two of them in my personal library.
Thank u for ur friendship here on GR JEWELL ;-)
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Give it a try!!TRULY INSPIRING !!
HAPPY WRITING AND READING!!
Thank you for accepting my friendship request. I won a copy of "Hurricane" on one of the giveaways and loved it! I am a book reviewer for examiner.com and I just wanted to share my review of the book with you. I only hope I was able to do it justice.http://www.examiner.com/books-in-balt...
