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Author Athena Lark

Athena Lark

Athena Lark

MFA, UC Riverside

Athena Lark is a writer, independent journalist and photographer. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. Athena has been published in the literary journal The Whistling Fire, the Florida Times Union newspaper, Jacksonville Business Journal, Jacksonville Advocate, The Albany Herald, UNF Spinnaker, UNF Alumni Magazine. Athena also worked as the Associate Producer for the documentary “Slave Market Diaries” written and directed by Clennon King. Her Associate Producer credits include her work at WJXT Channel 4 News, Jacksonville, FL. Athena has worked as a contributing commentator on the radio talk show “The Advocate” AM 1460, Jacksonville Florida. She is currently writing the novel “Avenue of Palms“ and her memoir “Sailor Girl.”

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...

Black History Month: From Negro History Week to Post-Racialism?

Natashia Deon and Athena Lark
History, Society & Culture
In a recent video post on Upworthy.com, social commentator/comedian, Louis CK (who is white) was interviewed by Jay Leno on The Tonight Show. Louis CK joked, “Every year, white people add a hundred years...

Portraits of Slavery in Contemporary African-American Fiction

Athena Lark
Society & Culture
A Hippo Reads Exclusive Reprint, Courtesy of Gently Read Literature Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. —Marcus Tullius Cicero What tangled skeins are the...
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