Tag: Harris

Meeting the great Sugarcane Harris was pretty strange. He had a “do”, that is, his hair was straightened, making him look more Hispanic than Black. At the first rehearsal, Don’s hair was back to afro. Paul asked his “What happened to your do?” to which Don replied, &ldq...

There was quite a bit of hype surrounding this novel when it first came out in 2019. A lot of the buzz came from how the notoriously reclusive Thomas Harris allowed himself to be interviewed to promote the novel. I remember thinking thinking at that time that I’d wait for the paperback. Then, ...

She thinks back wisfully on the woman she never became. The Woman They Wanted tells the story of a girl with musical ability who thought she’d be on Broadway, or an act in Nashville. Instead she ended up at an Evangelical megachurch in Maryland. Like Alice in Wonderland, she writes, sh...

It has taken a Kamala Harris — half Jamaican, half Indian and by her own definition, all American — to show the United States and the world that race isn’t a black or white issue and there are grey areas in our understanding of identity. That we are coming to this realisation on...

Because President Biden is 80 years old, there are many who choose to believe he’s knocking on death’s door and could die unexpectedly any day now. That’s true for any of us, but I won’t pretend that it’s not more probable the older you get. It doesn’t mat...

One of my leadership goals as a writer and editor is to introduce influential writers and leaders to my audience via interviews starting in 2019. Recently, I joined Medium Friendship, and when I asked the early adopters of the program, I found that these avid readers expect curated content and ...