E-Males...
Why is reading someone else’s E-mail so tempting? This intimate glimpse into the cyber love life of two passionately opinionated African American women is as addictive as eavesdropping. As the discussion grows from personal computers to simply personal, Ebony and Wanita aren’t afraid to go where no sister has gone before, as they debate each other about everything from office romance, meddling mothers, interracial dating, the holiday blues, homophobia, to Y2K.
Discover the World of Marcia McNair: Author and Storyteller
Marcia L. McNair earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth College, her master’s degree in Writing from New York University, and her Certificate in Organizational and Community Leadership from Adelphi University. McNair was an assistant editor at Essence Magazine and is currently a Professor Emeritus at Nassau Community College (NCC), where she taught journalism, Africana Studies and Women and Gender Studies. In addition, she was an adjunct professor of English at Molloy College, the co-host and producer of Café Long Island, a public access television series, and the Executive Director, Founder, and President of Long Island Girl Talk (LIGT), a nonprofit academic and career enrichment program for girls interested in media. Currently she serves on the Black Praxis Advisory Board at Dartmouth College.
McNair’s numerous publication credits include but are not limited to: The essay It Takes a Lioness to Raise Young Lions, which appears in Issues in Feminism/ An Introduction to Women’s Studies/Fifth Edition. Her creative nonfiction story, Before We Were Gangstas, won honorable mention in the National New Millennium Writers Creative Nonfiction contest and appears in the anthology, Memoirs in the Light of Day. She received a grant from the Long Island Council for the Arts for her collaborative performance, Diary of a Mad Black Feminist, now known as the play Sistas on Fire! A Newsical. Sistas on Fire! A Newsical was produced Off-Off Broadway. Her essay, The Incident Revisited, an excerpt from the play, appears in the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered. Her poem Long Island Just Isn’t Long Enough, appears in Songs of Seasoned Women, an anthology of women’s poetry and was performed by Composer Leonard Lehrman at the opening of Hofstra University’s Suburban Conference on Diversity. An excerpt from her first novel E-Males was performed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Her essay A Tale of Two Mothers was published in the anthology Mothers R Special/Celebrating Momma N’em.
McNair has written three screenplays: The Sus List (Award Winner: The Hip Hop Film Festival, The International Diversity Film Festival, and the Las Vegas Black Film Festival), The Dark Child (Award Winner: Hollywood Blood Horror Festival, New York Screenwriting Awards, National Black Film Festival, Imagine This Film Festival, Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival, and The Big Apple Film and Screenplay Competition) and The Open Window (Award Winner: Atlanta Women’s Film Festival, Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival, Alliance of Women Filmmakers Script Competition, and the Diverse Story Showcase Film Festival).
McNair's honors include but are not limited to: Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Recognition; Certificate of Appreciation, from the Joysetta and Julius Pearse African American Museum of Nassau County; Certificate of Recognition, Nassau County Legislature; New Hempstead Democratic Club Community Service Award; Black Women's Health Study Twenty Year Participant Award; Certificate of Recognition, Town of Hempstead; Sigma Delta Chi (The Society of Professional Journalists) Twenty-Five Year Pin.
Her professional memberships include Sigma Delta Chi (The Society of Professional Journalists), The Press Club of Long Island, and New York Women in Film and Television.
The mother of two sons, McNair grew up in New Jersey and moved to New York shortly after her college graduation. She has lived in both Harlem and Queens but has resided on Long Island for over thirty years.