Forbes, JP Morgan and Harvard Review are all talking about it. Black woman-owned entrepreneurial busnesses are “soaring,” growing 50% in the last few years.

The literary arts reign supreme at Critical Mass 11, an annual Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC) project. As the literary arts critic, I received submissions from writers that ran the whole gamut of literary styles, from novel excerpts and historical and science fiction to contemporary, experimental and love poems.