Stories from the Tenants DownstairsSet in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Like Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights, Sidik Fofana's electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful

Communist Party

In soothing verse

after years of work by everyday people

Her writings on love and its impact on race

a contemporary framework that interrogates where feminism meets today's hip-hop

Their subversive methods continue to provide a model today

On a dreary

and Ryan needs to grow her patience in many ways

she never has to face them in real life

and Ozro Armstead walks out into the brilliant sunshine on his thirty-seventh birthday

politicians and pop stars

and sexual violence