For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
“I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.”
“Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.”