Icon tells Rocket she is pregnant. Rocket can't believe it but decides to take an over-the-counter pregnancy test to make sure. As readers, we all know what the answer will be. Rocket sees her life flash before her eyes as she talks with her best friend about it how...
Icon #3
by MHill | Feb 28, 2021 | Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
Issue 3 continued from what happened in Issue 2. The Mayor of Dakota was held hostage by someone she had a connection too and the abductor wanted her to accept responsibility for causing an event to happen at a nearby island. Police stopped Icon and Rocket momentarily...
Icon #2
by MHill | Feb 21, 2021 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
The Mayor of Dakota, Thomasina Jefferson, is being held hostage at city hall. The police commissioner calls in S.H.R.E.D, the city's most elite police unit. They hold Icon and Rocket at gunpoint. Icon wants to comply with the police officers and Rocket reminds him...
Icon #1
by MHill | Feb 11, 2021 | Black History Month, Marion's Favorites
In 1839, an alien spaceship approaches Earth. A pod from that spaceship is ejected and heads toward the planet. It lands in a field and creates an explosion. A slave woman notices the pod and finds a little black boy inside. The little boy is Augustus Freeman...
Marion’s Black Author Reading List
by MHill | Jun 8, 2020 | Binti Series, Black History Month, Marion's Favorite Books, Marion's Favorites, Wisdom From Kammbia Column
I have been deeply affected (and many Americans) by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th. Seeing a human being die like that should never happen in a civilized society. As a black man, I saw my worst fears come to light once again. Also, I’m a book...