Sable Lit Reviews

It’s a new take on the idea of calls from the grave in Ericka Scott’s sensual suspense novella Phone Calls from the Dead. Rosalie Hopkins is just trying to get on with her life after being stranded at the altar by her wealthy athlete fiancé. However, her painful and humiliating past is not history when [...]

Title: BET Black College Tour Location: Atlanta, Georgia Description: Occuring at Morehouse College in its 7th year, BET hosts the back to school college tour. Support BET as it creates excitement and social activites while boosting community awareness regarding the longevity of US Historically Black Colleges. For more information about the tour locations see: www.bet.com/blackcollegetour [...]

Title: Umoja Dance Company 3rd Annual Wofabe Location: Newark, NJ Description: Experience the art of the African Dance at Umoja Dance Co’s 3rd Annual Wofabe African Dance and Drum festival. Check www.Wofabe.com for info on the concert, performance and dance classes. Start Date: 2008-10-24 End Date: 2008-10-26

As I mentioned before, it was a Jet magazine article about Kerry Washington that lead me to see Lakeview Terrace, her new movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and produced by Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment Management.              In short the movie is about a young interracial couple who is terrorized by Abel Turner, a [...]

Title: BET Black College Tour Location: Montgomery, Alabama Description: Occuring at Alabama State University in its 7th year, BET hosts the back to school college tour. Support BET as it creates excitement and social activites while boosting community awareness regarding the longevity of US Historically Black Colleges. For more information about the tour locations see: [...]

 Well it happened again with Oakbrook Entertainment’s Lakeview Terrace. While I think you can’t get much better than Samuel L Jackson for a lunatic socio-path cop, the only glimpses of this movie I caught were his menacing glances and creepy laughter. Until I read an article on Kerry Washington an African American actor and co-star [...]

Knowing that the production of movies are generally planned years in advance, my thoughts regarding the acute timeliness of the recent abundance of interracial movies emerging from Hollywood in the recent months has not been deterred. Aside from Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher and Something New with Sanaa Hamri [...]

Marilyn Meredith’s Kindred Spirits tells the story of Tempe Crabtree, a Bear Creek, California Deputy who stumbles upon a murder mystery amid a raging town wildfire. Due to her Native American heritage and that of the victim, Crabtree soon becomes relied upon to gather leads in the mysterious death of the town’s artist, an acquaintance [...]

More than just a catalyst to ticket sales, the predominant face associated with a film has a lot to do with the direction it will take and how it will be perceived. The same holds true for the making of The Secret Life of Bees, a New York Times bestseller by Sue Monk Kidd. While [...]

Books and their parts are often used as metaphors for life. For example, “never judge a book by its cover” or “judge a man not by the color of his skin by but the content of his character”, but Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist, Alicia Keys, as she often does in her music, reveals a new [...]