by Sharon Morgan | Jul 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
We arrived at the Phillis Wheatley Book Awards program at the Schomburg Center right on time for the 7PM program. After jumping into a “black taxi” at 116th Street for the short ride up Malcolm X Boulevard, we wondered aloud if we had missed something...
by Sharon Morgan | Sep 18, 2012 | Books, Uncategorized, Writing
Creating a book is, in many ways, like having a baby… First, you are impregnated with an idea. You visualize what it will look like and incubate it until it is ready to see the light of day. There are many sleepless nights along the way as you cope with the...
by Sharon Morgan | Aug 28, 2012 | Healing, Peacebuilding, politics, Post Racial Society, Race, Race Relations, Racism, reconciliation, Uncategorized, World affairs
This is a repost of something I wrote on my genealogy blog today: On this day in 1955, an innocent young man named Emmett Till was murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. This event embodied all that was wrong with America in that day...
by Sharon Morgan | Aug 22, 2012 | Books, Endorsements, Healing, Peacebuilding, Post Racial Society, Race Relations, Racism, reconciliation, Writing
Promotion of Gather at the Table ultimately depends on Tom and I. Even though we are supported enthusiastically by Beacon Press, book publishing has changed a lot in recent years. Promotion is no longer the primary responsibility of the publisher. It is authors who...
by Sharon Morgan | Aug 9, 2012 | Healing, politics, Post Racial Society, Race Relations, reconciliation, World affairs
I do not intend to use the Gather at the Table platform to promote my personal political preferences. We all have our opinions and, whether we agree or not, freedom of thought and speech are rights that must be respected and protected. I do, however, want to use this...
