When Anita serendipitously runs into Jason for the second time, she flirtatiously renames him “Do-Gooder.” In spite of their differing philosophies, there’s no denying their mutual belief in the liberation and empowerment of Black folks or their blossoming fondness for each other. On the contrary, Jason is an Atlanta transplant who leaves the southern security of his Georgia family and friends to open a Harlem office for Dr. It’s about not backing down in the face of the enemy.Īnita is a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn-born, by-any-means-necessary activist as well as a waitress and a poet who serves and performs at B-Flat Lounge in Harlem, USA. You’re just like the rest of the idealists: you don’t understand the message. and Anita Hopkins, a student of Malcolm X find themselves so strongly attracted to each other that it’s palpable and intoxicating for them and the reader. Yet, despite this horrifically violent and racially divided time, Jason Tanner, a follower of Dr. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. It is also the year that president John F. Now, this is no spoiler and I pray that it’s not even a history lesson, but 1963 is the year that four young Black girls-Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), Addie Mae Collins (14) and Denise McNair (11)-were brutally murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Long time novelist Donna Hill’s latest book ☛ CONFESSIONS IN B-FLAT is a beautiful and enjoyable Black Love story that sparks on a New York City-bound Greyhound bus in the tumultuous year of 1963, post the March On Washington. Violence was what this country was built on, but it could not be the way it survived.
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