REFLECTION & REASON

The Miami Book Fair is now underway, and Kya Publishing is excited to be a part of the virtual festivities, featured in the Virtual Marketplace with a great collection of writers and book/publishing organizations. This year's Book Fair hosts so many great artists, and a full schedule of discussions, panels, and interviews. On November 17, we took in "Red, White, Black and Blue: Highlighting America's Racial Illiteracy" with artist/educator  Keith Knight . Here's an overview of the event, followed by a link so you can check it out this week thanks to the convenient watch-on-demand Miami Book Fair platform! This presentation really resonated, and Keith Knight's direct and engaging communication style made it not only informative but also thought provoking, and emotionally impactful. I felt this. Reflecting back, there were a few images that are still burned into my memory now. Pictures of lynchings and a still photograph of George Floyd (that I have deliberate...

The  Miami Book Fair  is now underway, and Kya Publishing is excited to be a part of the virtual festivities, featured in the  Virtual Marketplace  with a great collection of writers and book/publishing organizations. This year's Book Fair hosts so many great artists, and a full schedule of discussions, panels, and interviews. To start our week off, we had a chance to enjoy a great sessions on November 16: "The Miami Times and the Fight for Equality."  Here's an overview of the event, followed by a link so you can check it out this week thanks to the convenient watch-on-demand platform! This conversation was hosted by Florida-based journalist  Nadege Green  who has investigated and reported on local government in Miami in relation to the impacts on housing, climate, and other issues disproportionately affecting Black and brown communities in Miami-Dade County. Nadege is also the Director of Community Research & Storytelling with the  Com...

Real Lambily members rejoice. If you know, you know. This fall has been a significant one for those who have been relishing in and swooning along with singer and Song Writing Hall of Fame inductee Mariah Carey since the early nineties. It's been now thirty years since we first watched "Vision of Love" sky rocket to the top of the charts, since we saw a young Mariah grace the stage of the career-defining Arsenio Hall show, and takeover the radio airwaves. If you're a true, true Mariah Carey fan, the ups and downs along the way have meant little to nothing, because of simply how much power the music itself has had along the way. At the end of September, Mariah Carey's memoir " The Meaning of Mariah Carey " was released, and decades worth of stories, context, and perspective were confessed. For many, the albums of Ms. Carey have served as soundtracks to our adolescence, to teen years, our twenties, and now even in our middle ages we are blessed to still be ...