
Hosea Khan spews dangerous words of treason: What does peace matter if innocent lives are lost to maintain it? As Arika is exposed to new beliefs, she realizes that the laws she has dedicated herself to uphold are the root of her people’s misery. But everything changes when a new student arrives. After ten gruelling years of training, she is on the threshold of taking her place of privilege far from the fields. Although Arika Cobane is a member of the race whose backbreaking labor provides food for the remnants of humanity, she is destined to become a member of the Kongo elite. Everyone must obey the law in every way or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. Ending Soon: Funding and Grants For Black Women and FamiliesĪ reinvention of the life of Frederick Douglas…examining past and present race relations… The Record Keeper is about freedom from slavery and is being published to coincide with Juneteenth, the American holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States…and the 100th Anniversary of The Red Summer, coined by civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson to explain the rash of race riots that took place across America in the summer and early fall of 1919.Īgnes Gomillion’s multi-city summer tour kicks off June 18, 2019…and she is available for interviews.Īfter World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce.
