From VSB: After a not-really-all-that-brief-at-all hiatus, The Writing Ass Chick We Love series returns with the homie Brooke Obie. We’ve known each other since we worked together at EBONY.com, and I’ve read and admired your work in the past. But, in preparing for this feature, I visited your personal site (brookeobie.com)
From The Root: Angela Peoples did not come to the Women’s March on Washington to play. The 30-year-old co-director of the LGBTQ equality organization GetEqual came to Saturday’s massive protest against Donald Trump to tell the truth. Marching in a sea of white women, Peoples wore a hat that read, “Stop
From NewsOne: he moment I set foot in Washington, D.C., the day before Donald Trump‘s inauguration, I was instantly filled with remorse. His supporters were easy to identify at Union Station with their White supremacist paraphernalia and palpable glee. They had won a battle they were never really in danger of losing, and while I knew that intellectually, my spirit was still sick. “Why did I come here?” I asked myself. It wasn’t for what a Facebook friend dubbed the Million Microaggressions March; the massive gathering of
From Global Grind: Eddie Long has died of cancer. New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where the 63-year-old ordained bishop served as senior pastor in Lithonia, Georgia, confirmed his death Sunday morning. His friends, family and supporters may feel this is the time to focus on the work he did in the
From GlobalGrind.com: Kim Burrell, girl, you messed up. I’m sure you know that by now, since the backlash you faced after a clip of your homophobic “sermon” in which you called gays and lesbians “perverted” and an embarrassment to the kingdom of God went viral. You tried to clean it up
From GlobalGrind.com: Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer stars in the upcoming film adaptation of the 2007 best-selling book The Shack and White male evangelicals are none too pleased. Spencer plays the role of God in the film about a man who returns to the shack where his young daughter was murdered
In 2016, Brooke Obie published her debut novel Book of Addis: Cradled Embers, through For the People Press. hailed as “brilliant” by award-winning author Susan Cheever. In this epic tale of love, loss and the cost of liberation, Addis, a 17-year-old enslaved girl, escapes from her enslaver, the first president of
For NewsOne’s new President Obama legacy website #OneObama, Brooke Obie contributed the article: “Obama’s Legacy Includes Christian Support for LGBTQ Rights“. When President Obama came out in support of LGBTQ lives and in favor of marriage equality in a May 2012 interview with ABC News’ Robin Roberts, he became the
It’s my birthday week! What better way to celebrate than to give away a free, autographed copy of my life’s work, my speculative fiction novel, Book of Addis: Cradled Embers. In this epic tale of love, loss and the cost of liberation, Addis, a 17-year-old Igbo girl, escapes from her enslaver,
Brooke Obie was selected from numerous applicants to attend the Callaloo Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters Writers Workshop at Oxford University from July 10-16, 2016. Brooke participated in the fiction workshop, writing the sequel to her debut novel, Book of Addis: Cradled Embers, learning from award-winning novelist Ravi Howard, as well