by Marvin Blake | Jun 12, 2025 | Black History, Justice, Racism
Sometimes, learning to read means learning to love the reflection in the mirror. In “WHY”; When Mandy begins secret lessons under Miss Eleanor Leary, something deeper than literacy unfolds. She starts to unlearn the lies written on her soul since birth—that she is...
by Marvin Blake | Jun 3, 2025 | Black History, Facts, Mixed Race, Racism, Social Issues
How do you belong when the world around you; Was never designed… for you to fit in? In WHY, two sisters—one white, one Black—experience three radically different American cultures: the opulent world of white Southern planters, the enslaved communities hidden behind...
by Marvin Blake | May 13, 2025 | Black History, Justice, Mixed Race, Social Issues
In a world where knowledge was illegal for some, the bravest acts happened in whispers. In the novel WHY, Miss Eleanor Leary—a young, idealistic Irish immigrant hired to tutor the children of a wealthy plantation owner—makes a decision that risks her livelihood and...
by Marvin Blake | Apr 24, 2025 | Racism, Social Issues, Uncategorized
What happens when the person you love most in the world is also the one you’re forbidden to call “sister”? In WHY, the fictional yet all-too-real story of two girls born on opposite sides of slavery’s cruel divide, we witness a truth that history rarely explores in...
by Marvin Blake | Sep 26, 2024 | Black History, Racism, Social Issues
Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash “The legacy of slavery is not simply a history of bondage, but a living thread woven into the fabric of inequality today.” Slavery was one of the darkest times in history, and its effects can still be felt in the...
