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About Rashid Darden

About Rashid Darden

Rashid Darden is an award-winning, best-selling novelist of the urban LGBT experience, a seasoned leader of Black fraternal movements and nonprofit organizations, and a … READ MORE about About Rashid Darden

With A Peculiar Legacy, Rashid Darden shows that he is at the top of his writing game. Indeed, a spectacular novel.”

FREDERICK SMITH,
Author, One and Done and Down For Whatever.

Rashid Darden paints an exquisite portrait of college life, urban youth and the secrets we all hold from the world.”

ROBERT DENSON, III
Sunpiper Press

Rashid Darden excels at crafting richly layered characters with unwavering resilience.”

KIA DUPREE
Author, Robbing Peter and Disentangled

By Rashid Darden

The silence of a spiritual community is shattered by the murder of one of their own.

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Birth of a Dark Nation

Justin Kena never knew his own strength. He was an average guy stuck working at a mediocre nonprofit in Washington, DC, unsure exactly where his next professional steps would take him. He was awkward, bored, lonely, and bordering on depression. With nothing to lose, he accepts a proposition from his friendly neighborhood corner boy that forever transforms his life.

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Children of Fury

For the children of Pomegranate Place, there is little difference between ordinary terror and extraordinary terror.  Family members become sexual predators. Young mothers disappear into thin air. Stray bullets claim the lives of toddlers, while aimed bullets claim the street’s soldiers and the names of the victims are forgotten to time. Monsters have taken hold of this struggling neighborhood and no one is coming to the rescue.

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Thunder Rolls: A Dark Nation Story

All is never well in the Dark Nation for long.

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Pascal: A Dark Nation Story

He’s only six years old.

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Lazarus

ADRIAN is handsome, brilliant, and devoted to serving others. Under the cool exterior, however, he is tormented and unfulfilled. Abandoned by his father and emotionally distant from his mother, he feels alone – adrift on campus – until he meets SAVION.

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Covenant

ADRIAN is on a mission to heal himself from his emotional wounds. Though he is fresh off the “burning sands” of Beta Chi Phi, he suddenly finds himself alone. He sets himself to the task of reconciling with his parents while forging his own path as a newly “out” man on campus – no easy feat when some fraternity brothers still harbor animosity toward him.

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Epiphany

ISAIAH is head over heels in love with his boyfriend and isn’t afraid to let the world know it. His unwavering love threatens his future as a professional basketball player. Though he is being forced to choose between the love of his life and his career, it appears that he could be making a decision which could irrevocably affect his future.

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Yours in the Bond

Eustace Dailey has a Harvard degree, an artist’s eye, an active social life, and more money than he knows what to do with at his age.  He should feel on top of the world, but instead, he constantly second-guesses his choices–especially when it comes to Jeremy.

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The Life and Death of Savion Cortez

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SAVION CORTEZ is the debut volume of poetry presented by Rashid Darden on the topics of love and loss.  It is a companion to the Potomac University Series.

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Time

TIME collects twenty years of some of the best writing from Rashid Darden, including never-before published poems, favorite blog entries, the award-winning play Message from ‘The Legba’ and the short story “Smith & Jones: Young Americans.”

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The Characters of A Peculiar Legacy: Part One

The Characters of A Peculiar Legacy: Part One

April 12, 2025

Gino is a character in Rashid Darden’s A Peculiar Legacy. The chapter devoted to him is entitled “The Tragedy of King Gino.” Peculiar Tyrone Jones (aka Peek) is a major character in A Peculiar Legacy. He appears throughout the novel, but most prominently in the chapter entitled “Peek With the Good Hair.” Korey is a […]

Rashid Darden on Characters

Rashid Darden on Characters

April 5, 2025

A Peculiar Legacy is intentionally named. It’s the story of a Black community in DC with a wide variety of eccentric characters. In this video, Rashid Darden introduces them. Pre-order the ebook today and purchase the paperback on April 15, from wherever you’d like to purchase books!

Rashid Darden on Publishing

Rashid Darden on Publishing

April 5, 2025

2025 marks 20 years of books published by Rashid Darden and Old Gold Soul Press! Get your copy of A Peculiar Legacy, his latest, on April 15, on Amazon and wherever else books are sold!

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