The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2015 to 2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent, with national, regional, and global actions. As proclaimed by the General ...

West Mills, the small, segregated North Carolina town where “Decent People” unfolds, is a hotbed of gossip and long-simmering recrimination. The residents have plenty to talk about as the novel opens: ...

Award winning author De’Shawn Charles Winslow is back in the fictional town of West Mills, North Carolina, but this time with a whole new tale in his second novel “Decent People,” which was released ...

FICTION: A small Southern town in the 1970s — and a couple — are torn by a mysterious triple murder. “Decent People” by De’Shawn Charles Winslow; Bloomsbury (272 pages, $28) In “Decent People,” his ...

De’Shawn Charles Winlow returns to West Mills for ‘70s era tale. Interconnected family secrets, a whodunit murder mystery and the unshakable remnants of bigotry spin North Carolina author De’Shawn ...

DECENT PEOPLE. By De’Shawn Charles Winslow. Bloomsbury. 272 pages. $28. By the fifth page in De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s stellar sophomore novel “Decent People,” a trio of Black siblings have been shot ...

In “Decent People,” his second novel, author De’Shawn Charles Winslow has a lot to say about a lot of things. In fewer than 300 pages, Winslow takes on love, racism, Black masculinity, morality, ...

Readers know that a writer has created an effective murder mystery when they are kept guessing, and then are utterly surprised by the revelation of the guilty party. Prize-winning gay author De'Shawn ...