Cheryl J. Jackson

Chyrel J. Jackson is an avid lover, reader and writer of African American Literature. She grew up in a Southern Suburb of Chicago, IL. Country Club Hills. As a young girl she read Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Judy Blume novels.

College was the real scholastic awakening introducing this Literary Enthusiast to the Literary works of her great ancestors: James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez.

It only makes sense that she would now be writing in the Spirit of these ancestors. Giving a voice to social issues that plague our modern time.

Different Sides of the Same Coin is a modern and sassy collage of poetry as experienced from the Black female perspective of 2 sisters and authors. This timeless collection of poems is refreshing and unique. Different Sides of the Same Coin is a soul searing and heartwarming work of new age black voice and spoken word.

This adaptation highlights the human experience of life, love, loss, parting and sorrow. Timeless wording, honestly written with a little of the unexpected. Black Expression has never been more vibrant, relevant and real.

This work is an interesting twist on Harlem Renaissance revisited as it collides with 2019 social struggles and conditions of our current time. In no short order we are reminded of why written and spoken word is so vital to the sustenance of African American Literature.