Author Darlene Kriesel

Darlene Kriesel

Adjunct faculty member, Cal Baptist University and Riverside Community College

Darlene is a writer who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is currently working on her novel, House Secrets, and a memoir. Darlene developed an ear for writing early on from the African-American culture, with its poetry, music, rhythm, and figurative language, and her mind always leads her to the most poignant and powerful details of human strife and joy; that is, to the heart of a story.

Five Racially Controversial Verdicts in American History

Darlene Kriesel and Athena Lark

Government, Society & Culture

The Mississippi Delta was no doubt as muggy this summer as it was in the summer of 1955 when fourteen-year-old Emmett Till walked into a grocery store in Money, Mississippi, and with his Chicago confidence...

With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There's a Likely Culprit

Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity

Why We’re in Such a Frenzy About Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

The Weight of the Presidency

Four Crises Facing the President and How History Can Help

Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists

Is the Era of In-Class Education Coming to an End?

Colonizing Mars Means Contaminating Mars – And Never Knowing For Sure If It Had Its Own Native Life

Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination

UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law

Some Renewable Energy Types Promise a Bright Future. Others are Merely Sci-Fi Fantasy

Author Darlene Kriesel

Darlene Kriesel

Five Racially Controversial Verdicts in American History