The “In Our Own Words” series began shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March as a way of giving voice to members of Atlanta’s arts community as we all s...
Gillian Royes was born in Jamaica and earned her doctorate in film and history from Emory University. Her Shad series of books about a trail-blazing Jamaican ba...
Growing up on the island of Jamaica, Gillian Royes wanted for nothing and everything simultaneously.
The youngest of three daughters of a stay-at-home mothe...
Noir in film and fiction has served up menace and mayhem for almost a century. About a decade ago, Akashic Books launched a series of noir anthologies with a tw...
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