*Friday’s Five Books is a bi-weekly post on Between the Covers that highlights book recommendations from the reading community. Who is @Anti_Intellect?  He’s Black.  He’s gay.  He’s an atheist.  He’s a feminist.  And he is deeply committed to educating for critical consciousness.  He is a graduate of Florida A&M University, and may be best known […]

*Friday’s Five Books is a bi-weekly post on Between the Covers that highlights book recommendations from the reading community. Hola, bibliophiles!  I’m Cherie, a self-proclaimed book addict.  I’ve loved the written word since I was very small.  One of my earliest memories of mother-daughter fights in my household was her unscrewing all the light bulbs […]

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Fiction — African-American Lit. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998 Paperback 240 pages Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937, was written by Zora Neale Hurston in just seven weeks.  It is the story of Janie Crawford, a black woman living in central/southern Florida in […]