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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
In 2003, the “Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance” published by Facts On File became the first comprehensive volume on the much celebrated movement that gave birth to modern African-American culture. In February 2006, Black Issues Book Review voted the encyclopedia one its “essential titles for the home library.”
Prior to that, it won the Choice Academic Title Award and Best History Book Award for it’s treatment of an era that not only gave us such outstanding authors as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. along exceptional leaders like James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois. It also laid the foundation for the success of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and provided such lasting legacies as gospel music, jazz, the blues, rap, and other staples of modern-day culture in the United States and around the world. For more on “Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, please visit: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewwork.asp?AuthorID=25279
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- Tell Us A Little About Yourself
- Although I've authored history, journalism, biography, fiction, and creative nonfiction, for seem reason I seem to always think of myself as a poet at work. My most recent works are the poetry collection THE BRIDGE OF SILVER WINGS; and the novel CHRISTMAS WHEN MUSIC ALMOST KILLED THE WORLD.
- What Music Do You Like?
- Whatever moves me at the moment.
- What are your creative outlets and/or aspirations?
- I'll have to meditate and pray on that one for a while.
- What or Who are your greatest inspirations?
- My mother and father and a woman I loved until she died.
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- http://www.authorsden.com/Aberjhani
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Poems Written by My Friends
Often they open my eyes and shut down my fears.
Sometimes eat lunch naked on the White House lawn.
Build gigabyte nests in my heart like virtual swans.
Will not give you an STD or murder your grandparents.
Will not hack your heartbeat or burglarize your soul.
Wi… Continue
Posted on April 17, 2008 at 12:41am —
A Rich Harvest of Empowering Inspiration
(photo of Susan L. Taylor by Marc Brasz)
When the NAACP in 2006 presented author and social activist Susan L. Taylor with its President’s Award, the organization publicly acknowledged what readers of Essence® Magazine had been experiencing for nearly four decades. Namel… Continue
Posted on March 16, 2008 at 3:45pm — 1 Comment
Ararat: the Power of Art and Legacies
Ararat movie still courtesy of Miramax
Director and writer Atom Egoyan––who has won universal acclaim for such films as Exotica (1995), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Where the Truth Lies in 2005––is generally not one for presenting his movies… Continue
Posted on March 7, 2008 at 1:12am — 2 Comments
The Starltling Gift of Modern Life
“All this life and love and strife and failure––is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day?”
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Posted on February 8, 2008 at 11:49am — 1 Comment
Thank You Monumental Lives for Monumental Change
Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gandhi by Barbara Hilal
Thank you Monumental Lives for Monumental Change for sel
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We Making The Difference!" The Steps Toward A Better World Begin With The Steps Taken To Better Oneself! "A foundation is but the base and it is the collection of building blocks that creates what many should strive to ascend."
Living a monumental life doesn't necessarily mean possession of a large financial fortune or living in the spotlight of public adoration and fame. What I think it means is that you act in accordance with your own identity while acting in ways that are positive and conducive to happiness, serenity and harmony. What I think it means is that you generate positive energies and in turn, your positive energies have a positive effect on others. Linkin' Monuments-- a positive chain of energy! Read More>>>
The Thirteen Reasons
2.) Your contributions to this world are as monumental as the next person
3.)You believe in yourself because you know you "can"
4.)You believe in your neighbors because you know they "can"
5.)No matter how difficult it may seem, you are not alone.
6.)You deserve as much respect as does the next person
7.)Don't wonder so much what your life might have been but put into action what you want your life to become.
8.)You matter because we all matter.
9.)Enough failures will lead to success once you succeed in failing to give up.
10.)This world has so much to offer and you have so much more to offer it.
11.)You have many talents and abilities...a few which may have yet to be uncovered.
12.)The treasures you may seek are near enough the heart that it wouldn't take more than a heartbeat to uncover the most precious gems of all.
13.)You are here because you belong!
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The Three Conditions
2.)As in any community each one of us has our own unique personalities, traits, belief systems, talents and as long as any of these elements are not breaches against the prosperity of the community then they should be allowed, accepted and honored. Community is about diversity. This is a Community
3.)It is my greatest hope that we learn from each other. Each one of us has so much to offer. No one here is better or smarter or more talented than the next person. Each one of us has our strengths; each one of us has our weaknesses. Your strength in one area is of great benefit to my weakness in that same area. A simple philosophy of mine: "A greedy mine is to learn, yet not teach & A lazy mind is to yearn, yet not reach" Let us not be greedy, let us not be lazy.
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