Books
The Black "I"
For over a century, the African American author has faced the challenge of writing for a racially dual audience and their often divergent expectations. The Black "I" explores the author's cultural and literary dilemma, using dialogical insights to examine two contrasting approaches the author may take toward each audience. The result is a groundbreaking new literary theory that identifies four distinct types of African American literature and redefines the concept of double consciousness for the African American writer.
"an important contribution to our understanding of ethnicity and modern American culture"
Meili Steele
University of South Carolina
Plays
Darkroom
Grey Elliot, a celebrated photojournalist with a reputation for heartrending war photos, is hiding a secret that could destroy his marriage and career. Now the nightmares have begun, and when he comes to believe an itinerant handyman is the ghost of his father, lynched years before right in front of his eyes, he must take drastic measures to come to terms with the man he really is.
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Finalist, FutureFest New Play Festival (Dayton, Ohio)
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Featured Play, Midlands Multicultural Symposium (Columbia, South Carolina)
No Man Knoweth His Sepulchre
Virgil Timmons has lost everything and has gone down into a quiet subway station on Christmas Eve to commit suicide. When a well-meaning but puckish tramp interrupts his plans, the empty platform becomes an existential madhouse, and the screwball journey he finds himself on forces him to confront a future he never imagined.
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Best Play, Gardner-Webb University National Playwriting Contest
Articles and Essays
African American Review
“Call and Response: Parallel ‘Slave Narrative’ in August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson”
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The Eighties in America
"Michael Jackson”
“Miracle on Ice”
“The Play (California vs. Stanford)”
“USA for Africa (“We Are the World”)”
“Tawana Brawley”
Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1971-2000
“O.J. Simpson Trial”
“McGwire Breaks Maris’s Home-Run Record”
Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970
“M*A*S*H Satirizes Warfare”
Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1901-1940
“Baseball Holds Its First World Series”
“First Winter Olympic Games Are Held”
“Stockholm Hosts Summer Olympics”
Great Events from History: The Nineteenth Century, 1801-1900
“Stevenson Publishes Treasure Island”
“Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony Introduces Romantic Age"
“Building of the First Skyscraper”
“Emergence of Les Primitifs”
“Statue of Liberty Is Dedicated”
Encyclopedia of Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues
“Tuberculosis and Romanticism”
“Disease in Modern Literature”
Masterplots II
“Elmer Gantry”
“A Christmas Carol”
Notorious Lives
“Clifford Irving”
“Adam Clayton Powell”
“O.J. Simpson”
American Decades: 1920s
“The Harlem Renaissance”
“Langston Hughes”