A mother, Alberta, who wants her son, Broderick, to be gay. She believes her son's true love and happiness will manifest in a loving gay relationship. She secretly hopes for nuptials with a man for Broderick too. Alberta & Esai being neighbors & childhood friends. Have a very close and deep friendship. As retirees, we catch sight of the handed-down honor of regret. The theme of immigration is delved into with Nemesio from the Dominican Republic. Keith, through Nemesio, ascertains what truths need safeguarding. Also, Keith has woven  Athena & Phoebe, interracial friendship supporting the many types of love & the sacrifices. Providing  the spiritual and soul of all the relationships is Father Thiago. His personal friendship with Esai reflects the struggles of love and religion. Keith unveils, at times, the sometimes veiled life of Bisexual Black & Latino men. The voyage to a “quietness” absent of society’s expectations and predilections for fundamental religion is/with comical and earnestness.

1951,  post World War II, on the island of Buford Bluff, Mississippi. Pockets of communities in the US southern states begin local civil rights activism. It is the seedlings of a command to win back rights won long ago. Buford Bluff to painfully shift towards the surface of the waters of justice. Like each Hurricane eroding the shoreline of the Buford Bluff, so too,  a resurgence of rights worn down unearth roots of hate. Deacon Ezra Cunningham, a pillar of the African American community within Buford Bluff is agitated with life. Caleb, his son, teenage boy whose resistance is met by Arlo. Arlo Callum runs the diner and soda shop for his dad. The friends or allies are born from unknown places. The Cunninghams & Arlo Callum are the focus of tale of justice, love, friendship and good food.

Adaptation  from the works of W.E.B Du Bois's essays in The Souls of Black Folk

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In this book, originally published in 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois has collected fourteen of his own essays about life after the Civil War, especially in the South. While the book predominantly deals with Black society and the life of “freedmen,” it also discusses how white society evolved after Emancipation. Throughout the text, Du Bois presents specific examples of racial injustice and inequality in the South. Before each essay, Du Bois includes a poem (or an excerpt from a poem or song) appropriate to the essay’s subject matter. Every inclusion is “a bar of the Sorrow Songs,—some echo of haunting melody from the only American music which welled up from the black souls in the dark past.” Du Bois revisits the significance of these inclusions at the end of the book.

While each essay examines a particular piece of the evolution of Black society,

The Red Room of the White House

An adaptation of H.G. Wells The Red Room.

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The Red room of the White House is the perfect setting to showcase a theme in  H.G. Wells thrilling psychological story of "fear of the unknown."

The Red Room is a short horror story written by H.G. Wells and published in 1894. It follows a confident young sceptic-the unnamed narrator of the story-as he attempts to spend the night in an infamously haunted room in a castle. Owing to the black and red décor of the room the narrator finds it necessary to light several candles to see his way around, but a draft keeps extinguishing the candles faster than he can keep them lit. Eventually, the candles go out, he loses his sense of direction and trips over the furniture. He freaks out, falls down, and knocks himself out. In the morning, the narrator concludes that the room is haunted by no ghost, but by fear itself. The ambiguity of the narrators ending is the story's enduring legacy-is the room haunted by a supernatural force of pure fear, or did the narrator simply spook himself in the dark?

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