Month: December 2016

Brazilian Nights ~ A Journey of Fulfillment

December 27, 2016 Zola

Brazilian Nights By Odie Hawkins [Cover by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Valonga Price takes a three year sabbatical from the grime of owning her own company to try to discover her true self. Armed with questions that have been whirling around in her head, she travels to places like Brazil, San Salvador, Bahia, Nigeria, Cuba and Japan.

Black Chicago ~ A Black History of America’s Heartland

December 23, 2016 Zola

Black Chicago By Odie Hawkins [Cover photo by Zola Salena-Hawkins] Chicago the center of America’s heartland, from its founding in the late 1700’s by Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable, a French educated Black man, to the modern day Gypsies who live on Maxwell Street. It’s a city steeped in Black History. This is the story