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
Darden crafts a story that will make you laugh, shout, and cry.
MARCUS H.
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
All of the characters come to life in a way that makes you think you know them personally or have met them somewhere in your life.
AYANA
Birth of a Dark Nation
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.
Thunder Rolls: A Dark Nation Story
All is never well in the Dark Nation for long.
Pascal: A Dark Nation Story
He’s only six years old.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Latest diary entries
Power
I have been thinking a lot lately about how power asserts and re-asserts itself, in politics, alumni groups, religion, fraternalism, families, etc.
Why is my blog so sparse?
My name is Rashid Darden and I like not being sued.
I found Randi Ayala
My name is Rashid Darden and I like being persistent.