Meet LeAndrea Mack
Author | Speaker | Coach
Making the literary world sit up and pay attention, Author LeAndrea Mack began her writing career as a freelance journalist for AXS. She focused on the Essence Festival and the events surrounding that weekend. The relationships she made during that time helped her to successfully sell over 300 of her debut novel SEEING RED a few years later. In 2019 she was crowned Miss Juneteenth for her work in her own communities of both Kansas City and St Louis, Missouri as well as her philanthropy work in Africa with children’s books she delivered during her visit to Lagos, Nigeria. She recently has been named a finalist for Best Author of the KC People’s Choice Award and Darron Wheeler Entertainment’s Media Architect.
AT THE NATION’S DOORSTEP Exhibit
This exhibit features photographs from Washington, DC, at the White House, relating to the protest for social injustices and police brutality of African Americans.
Stop by the exhibit during KC Daiquiri Shop business hours June 18-22, have a daiquiri and view the nation’s people, at the nation’s capital, crying on their knees for social justice and equality for African Americans!
JunteenthKC 2020 Celebration
Hosted within the 18th & Vine Historic District, JuneteenthKC is an annual celebration of the emancipation of slaves in America and provides the backdrop to pay tribute to the leaders of the Kansas City community.
This year’s celebration will be a virtual event with numerous online activities and workshops, including Ms. Mack’s The Start Writing Workshop, sponsored by Bliss Books & Wine.