STAR LOVE
Growing up in a federal housing project in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights struggle, I would often look to the skies as an escape from the reality my family faced as then Negroes in an unjust America. My dad was a victim of homicide when I was four, so Mom carried the burden of caring for an eight-person household. Things were tight, but momma always found a way to purchase the books that this insatiable reader craved.