Juneteenth

Highlighting Historical Romance with Nancy Massand and facts behind The Circle Unbroken. In researching the events of 1964 in the Civil Rights era while writing The Circle Unbroken, I was struck by the bigotry that persisted 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation signed on September 22, 1862, during the Civil War. This week 47 states […]

Weeksville Uncovered

Highlighting Historical Romance with Michael Scott who uncovers Weeksville a little known part of African American History. I’m continually amazed how I as a Brooklyn-bred native New Yorker lived so ignorantly of all the history around me. Case in point: the free-Black community of Weeksville. When I pastored in Bedford-Stuyvesant almost thirty years ago I […]