Midnight is one of Odie Hawkins’ finest and most sensitive works, a view inside the soul of a black man of the LA streets, a former gang leader, influenced by a man he meets in prison to search for his true identity outside the narrow confines of the ghetto – to look back to Africa to find who … [Read more...]
LOST ANGELES by Odie Hawkins
In the post-Watts Rebellion 1970s, Chester L. Simmons takes up the study of Korean martial arts – hapkido and tae kwan do – and finds it easier to understand than the Korean-American shopkeepers catering to African Americans in South Central “El-A.” As he attempts to understand the racial … [Read more...]
