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Exile Blues

“It’s the novel Malcolm X might have written had he not suffered martyrdom.” —George Elliott Clarke, 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016 & 2017) When Preston Downs, Jr., aka Prez, slides down the emergency chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does he know that never would he return home to Washington D.C…. Read more »

Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers

“An original source of living history about the civil rights movement.” Stacey J. White, Mississippi Valley State University “a meticulous, second to none look…” Esther Callens, The Birmingham Times In June 1964 young black and white civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as… Read more »