Editor’s Take
BY NJEMILE Z. ALI
Art & Artist: Capturing Life in Every Medium
Where would we be without art and artists? Looking around us, we see the abundance of creative flow manifesting in a myriad of forms. As summer closes and the Autumn Equinox approaches fast, at KIZA we salute the artists in all media—literature, music, visual arts, dance, architecture, basketweaving, candle making and many more, who bring beauty and raw reflections of who we are to our lives.
KIZA’s literary contributors and columnists share their take on artists influence the world and vice versa.
Fiction:
Timothe Davis, Tax burden
Richard Eddie, The Running Artist
De’Andre Holmes, Daddy, Do You Love Me?
Columns:
Nashid Furaha-Ali, Black Art & Black Artist
Eryka Parker, Why Black Joy Deserves to be Center Stage
Khadija Pounsel, The Charm: Artistically Speaking
Shaundale Rena, Reviews of Fatal Promises the Movie and the book, Never Wear Red Lipstick