"My home community, which represents a population that is culturally diverse, mostly includes people of African descent and other various Indigenous cultures. Being a woman of African descent, my passion for education extended to culturally centered education and more specifically African centered education. Culturally centered education provides and educational opportunity for learners to personally connect with knowledge they receive from an educator....

"An unnamed American city feeling the effects of a war waged far away and suffering from bad weather is the backdrop for this startling work of fiction. The protagonists are aimless young men going from one blue collar job to the next, or in a few cases, aspiring to middle management. Their everyday struggles--with women, with the morning commute, with a series of cruel bosses--are somehow transformed into storytelling that is both universally resonant...