About The BMR
I am proud to introduce to you the men who make up the RAWSISTAZ Black Men Reading Team.  Please feel to contact us at BMR@rawsistaz.com with "BMR" in the subject line if you have questions and/or comments or if you're a man who would like to review for us.  We are also currently accepting review copies.

Brian Walley

Brian Walley has been an avid reader since his teenage days. From his love of dungeons and dragons, his earlier reading was strictly fantasy books. However, after marriage and after buying his wife a copy of Waiting To Exhale, he decided to read the book since all of the African American women he knew were always discussing this book. Well, the rest, as they say, is history and now he primarily reads African American fiction. His favorite genre is the suspense/thriller novels, but he will pretty much read anything except he’s not a fan of the romance novels.

Brian is the lead team member for Black Men Reading, a new section to RAWSISTAZ, he’s a reviewer for Book-Remarks.com, a popular and well-known African-American book site and he’s the treasurer and webmaster of Ebony Expressions Book Club (www.ebonyexpressionsbookclub.com). Brian resides in Newark, Delaware and he’s married with two children.

"G" 

G is an Electrical Engineer working in the area of telecommunications as a Design Engineer & Operations Manager.  He is a former Navy officer, an avid reader, and also an a golf connoisseur with dreams of playing professionally.  Born and raised in Houston, TX, "G" now resides in the suburbs of Atlanta with his wife and daughter. His favorite genres are mysteries and legal thrillers. 

(G is the husband of The RAWSISTAZ Founder, shown with their daughter "Joy")

Evan 

Evan Hilliard has been an avid reader since his pre-teen days. While African-American fiction novels are his favorite reads, he also enjoys sci-fi, autobiographies and historical books...some of his favorite authors are J. California Cooper, Eric Jerome Dickey, E Lynn Harris, Bernice McFadden. Evan resides in St. Louis and is also a writer and a poet.
 

Vincent Alexandria

Vincent Alexandria is an author, actor, producer, director, composer, lyricist, screenwriter, vocalist, and musician. He holds a Masters degree in literature at Baker University and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Rockhurst College . He is the founder of the Brother 2 Brother African-American Male Literary Symposium. Its mission is to enlighten men and women in reading and comprehension to enhance their quality of life. He has completed three murder detective mystery novels, “Postal Blues,” and “Black Rain,” which is due out this year and his first novel, “If Walls Could Talk”, which he is in negotiations for a movie deal. Vincent Alexandria also wrote the movie script, (Walls of Deception). He has completed his first poetry book, “Poetry from the Bottom of My Heart,” released May 2004. His website is located at http://www.vincentalexandria.com.

Former BMR Members
Though the men below are no longer with us, we appreciate their input during the first year of BMR and have archived their information in this section.  Special thanks to  Keith Lee Johnson, Fredrick Cooper, & Alvin C. Romer.