Maxims
Premise: Books Are Weapons recognizes the revolutionary effect literacy can have on reclaiming our independence from the confines of mediocrity. Literacy enables the self-determination necessary to enjoying the basic human rights. Literacy, being a tool for coming to terms with one’s otherness, effects a change of consciousness more significantly than any other stimulant to the mind. […]
Paul Robeson’s thoughts on the Morris Jumel Mansion.
“I am an American. From my window I gaze out upon a scene that reminds me how deep-going are the roots of my people in this land. Across the street, carefully preserved as an historic site, is a colonial mansion that served as a headquarters for General George Washington in 1776, during desperate and losing […]
2012 New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Park Avenue Armory
This weekend’s New York Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory was the expectably tame assembly of devotes of and traders in the printed page would have been just like the previous 36 relatively conventions I’ve attended. This year I toured the booths with Herb Boyd and Daa’iyaa Lomax Sanusi and had to laff. […]
Jumel Terrace B&B
Life Turns Man Up & Down
The Private Library