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Howard D White Marcus Books Nominated for the OnixLink.com Best In Town Awards

Marcus Books received a nomination in one of the categories for the Inaugural OnixLink.com 2010 Best In Town Awards for the top African-American entertainment, social, and business destinations.

Voting will continue through the fall. Supporters may cast votes at: http://www
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Added by Howard D White on September 9, 2010 at 12:13am — No Comments

April Martin Chartrand AFRO SOLO: Visual Arts Exhibit United in Peace: Visual Artists Leading the Way'

April Martin Chartrand will be a featured artist in this show. Come out please and support the visual arts.


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Added by April Martin Chartrand on August 8, 2010 at 5:37pm — No Comments

Robert Trujillo/Tres AYA by Marguerite Abouet + Clement Oubrerie

This graphic novel was written by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by her husband Clement Oubrerie in 2006. The graphic novel/comic was published in France first and later in English by Drawn and Quarterly. It is about the stories of one womans life in the Ivory Coast of Africa...There have been three parts to the story published and an animated film based on the book is in production.

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Added by Robert Trujillo/Tres on August 3, 2010 at 10:09am — No Comments

Robert Trujillo/Tres Brotherman Comics-Dawud Anyabwile

Baba Dawud Anyabwile is one of the founding members of the African American Comics scene.Started in the early 90's with "Brotherman" which he illustrated, his brother Guy Sims wrote, and his entire family helped to promote, produce, and sell went on to sell something like 750,000 books all without DC or Marvel!!!! He has been doing a quarterly showing of Art/ Workshop in Atlanta. I think its time Oakland Youth had an OG like him to talk to about how to make it on their own by Doing it themselves… Continue

Added by Robert Trujillo/Tres on June 30, 2010 at 7:57am — No Comments

Robert Trujillo/Tres Bayou by Jeremy Love A COMIC ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY

Ive been seeing the BAYOU comic here and there for over two years.Today, I finally read some of it in my hands at the Oakland Public Library. It was dope! Serious themes and incredible eye for storytelling. I would say more, but

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Added by Robert Trujillo/Tres on June 28, 2010 at 7:29pm — No Comments

Robert Trujillo/Tres Illustrator of Color-Robert Trujillo

Peace everyone, my name is Robert Trujillo and I'm an illustrator from Oakland California. I spent two and a half years living in Brooklyn, NY where I got to see Hueman Book store and Brownstone Books. I even illustrated a cover or two for Black literary magazines such as Mosaic Magazine and The Liberator.

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Added by Robert Trujillo/Tres on June 16, 2010 at 1:35am — No Comments

Robert Trujillo/Tres One of my favorite authors-Octavia Butler

I cannot wait to they do the graphic novel of her stories. All i know is the artist better come CORRECT! RIP Ms Butler..



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Added by Robert Trujillo/Tres on June 16, 2010 at 1:19am — 2 Comments

Conceding to Kismet A Writer's Plea

Dear Community, Over the past couple of years, I have made many attempts to entice people to buy my work and support and independent writer. So far, my efforts have been futile and as a result I find myself growing deeper in dire straits. I have tried to avoid this route as long as possible, but it seems I have little other recourse. Now I must beg. I know that people donate to various causes or things that do not directly relate to helping a person’s livelihood. Well, I am not asking for dona… Continue

Added by Conceding to Kismet on June 5, 2010 at 11:51am — No Comments

Mcipher Powder Necklace: A Novel

Powder Necklace: A Novel


by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Washington Square Press (April 6, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1439126100
ISBN-13: 978-1439126103

Book Reviewed by Thumper

I was trying not to like Powder Necklace, the debut novel by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. I had had my fill of the… Continue

Added by Mcipher on May 29, 2010 at 11:14pm — No Comments

Conceding to Kismet Black Writers and Black Audiences

A few days ago I mentioned I got a rejection that said the protagonist’s name in my suspense novel was too “exotic” for Mary Higgins Clark fans. I asked the question if the person who made this suggestion, whose agency is defunct by the way, thought that black readers did not also read

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Added by Conceding to Kismet on May 19, 2010 at 9:12am — No Comments

D. R. Collier More on Confederate History Month

from D.R. Collier's A Gravedigger's Journal

www.rememberfortpillow.com

There are a few pro-Union Civil War buffs among the mass of pro-Confederate Civil War buffs. These few are liberal academics of some sort or another. The proclamation of Confederate History Month has kicked off a debate among this set. A snowball effect: the continued propagation of bad history in Confederate History Month in Va. was th

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Added by D. R. Collier on May 15, 2010 at 9:19pm — No Comments

D. R. Collier What If?

from D.R. Collier's A Gravedigger's Journal

www.rememberfortpillow.com

“I got the feeling there's a roadblock down this road. I 'm going take the back roads,” declared my Uncle Roy. The local sheriff's road block was just as much a custom in these parts as driving around with open cans of beer and firearms. It was just a simple matter of inconvenience or not.

I saw nothing up ahead, but at th

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Added by D. R. Collier on May 15, 2010 at 8:18pm — No Comments

D. R. Collier Hello to all

I am looking for fellow writers to collaborate with writing about the American black experience and anti-black racism. I am writing memior and poetry. I have an interest in the Civil War and wish to write about it as well. I want contirbutors to my blog or blog links.

Check out my blog www.rememberfortpillow.com

I will be post some of my work here as well

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Added by D. R. Collier on May 15, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

DEAN ALLEN JONES A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS?

"We're a nation of immigrants!" In the heat of the current immigration "debate", this slogan/ phrase/belief gets tossed into the fray quite a bit. What does that statement actually mean if you are a Native American, or if, like me, your ancestors were dragged here in chains by the members of some of these immigrant groups? Does it mean that only immigrants have created anything of value here? Does it mean that the contributions of immigrants are more valuable thant those of all others? Does it m… Continue

Added by DEAN ALLEN JONES on May 4, 2010 at 10:56pm — No Comments

DEAN ALLEN JONES BEGGING FOR BLOGGING

A friend of mine spent about a year begging me to post some blogs here because he felt that I had some interesting perspectives on the state of the black world in 2010. For a long time, I put him off, insisting that in the current environment, black people in general, including those who consider themselves to be literate and worldly, had no interest in reading anything that wasn't some form of praise song for President Obama.

This sorry state of affairs reminds of the same sic

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Added by DEAN ALLEN JONES on April 29, 2010 at 2:50am — 1 Comment

DEAN ALLEN JONES DESPARATELY SEEKING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

There has been a lot of talk among politicians, pundits, the man and woman in the street, and especially, from those who represent the fossil fuel industries: coal, oil, and natural gas about the need to "break our dependence" on "foreign oil" by drilling, excavating, and other wise extracting from domestic sources, especially those which happen to be located in areas such as national park lands and coastal waters which have been effectively walled off by protective legislation for many years. C… Continue

Added by DEAN ALLEN JONES on April 23, 2010 at 10:35pm — No Comments

Conceding to Kismet Go Slow My A$$

I recently got a response to a blog of my mine with a reply that quite frankly I think I here way too often. I almost ignored it because the woman who wrote 1) responded to the wrong blog and 2) is obviously one of those people who actually does not listen to what others say but simply waits for the opportunity to show others how much she knows ( I encounter that a lot). However, I had to addre

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Added by Conceding to Kismet on April 14, 2010 at 8:17am — 1 Comment

Conceding to Kismet Learning from Sharpe James

I recently got the chance to see a documentary entitled Street Fight chronicling the mayoral race in Newark, NJ, in 2002. Incumbent Sharpe James faced some serious competition from newcomer councilman Corey Booker. Street Fight follows Booker’s campaign as he attempted to run a dignified respectable campaign.

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Added by Conceding to Kismet on April 13, 2010 at 8:14am — No Comments

DEAN ALLEN JONES THE TERREBLANCHE FAN CLUB

The latest media reports out of the so-called new South Africa state that nearly two decades after the premature announcement of the "death" of apartheid, the vast majority of South African blacks are still living in destitution without accesss to any of the benefits of their allegedly rich country, while the white minority has become vastly richer by being allowed to maintain its near domination of the local markets and by being able to channel much of its ill-gotten gains into the global ma

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Added by DEAN ALLEN JONES on April 10, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

DEAN ALLEN JONES YET ANOTHER REASON WHY WE CAN'T ALL JUST GET ALONG

The governor of Virginia announced that he and his cronies are resurrecting Confederate Heritage and History month, an outrage which will occur every April if these people have their way. I wish that I could get used to the way that so many white Americans cannot see anti-Black racism and systems such as the Confederacy and apartheid which thrived on it as the evil that they are instead of either justifying them or making excuses for them. Such behavior makes me question what if any of America's… Continue

Added by DEAN ALLEN JONES on April 8, 2010 at 6:15am — No Comments

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Tips to get black youth reading and writing. 4 Replies

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact. Marcus Garvey. I am always looking for ideas for getting African American youth hooked on reading and writing.…

Started by Jamie Myrick in Book Club. Last reply by Mcipher Jul 20.

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How to build our young 7 yr. old African American girl's self esteem, when their sister is 1-1/2 yr. old and whose father is from Yemen. 6 Replies

My granddaughter is 7 yrs. old and my only granddaughter of my only son, who is 30.  She is of African American descent as well as her mom.  She is displaying some low self esteem issues since hr li…

Started by Jennifer Sabrena Jacobs in Book Club. Last reply by Mcipher Jul 9.

April Martin Chartrand

Book & Movie Reviews by A Drunk Blogger: Angel's Destiny: A Novel Story of Poems and Illustrations by April Martin Chartrand 1 Reply

Book & Movie Reviews by A Drunk Blogger Angel's Destiny: A Novel Story of Poems and Illustrations by April Martin Chartrand Thursday, February 4, 2010 . . .It brought me on a journey that, beca…

Tagged: Inspiration, Studies, Domestic, Violence, Sociology

Started by April Martin Chartrand in Book Reviews. Last reply by April Martin Chartrand Jun 23.

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Howard D White

Marcus Books Nominated for the OnixLink.com Best In Town Awards

Marcus Books received a nomination in one of the categories for the Inaugural OnixLink.com 2010 Best In Town Awards for the top African-American entertainment, social, and business destinations.

Voting will continue through the fall. Supporters may cast votes at: http://www
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Posted by Howard D White on September 9, 2010 at 12:13am

April Martin Chartrand

AFRO SOLO: Visual Arts Exhibit United in Peace: Visual Artists Leading the Way'

April Martin Chartrand will be a featured artist in this show. Come out please and support the visual arts.




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Posted by April Martin Chartrand on August 8, 2010 at 5:37pm

Robert Trujillo/Tres

AYA by Marguerite Abouet + Clement Oubrerie

This graphic novel was written by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by her husband Clement Oubrerie in 2006. The graphic novel/comic was published in France first and later in English by Drawn and Quarterly. It is about the stories of one womans life in the Ivory Coast of Africa...There have been three parts to the story published and an animated film based on the book is in production.

… Continue

Posted by Robert Trujillo/Tres on August 3, 2010 at 10:09am

Robert Trujillo/Tres

Brotherman Comics-Dawud Anyabwile

Baba Dawud Anyabwile is one of the founding members of the African American Comics scene.Started in the early 90's with "Brotherman" which he illustrated, his brother Guy Sims wrote, and his entire family helped to promote, produce, and sell went on to sell something like 750,000 books all without DC or Marvel!!!! He has been doing a quarterly showing of Art/ Workshop in Atlanta. I think its time Oakland Youth had an OG like him to talk to about how to make it on their own by Doing it themselves… Continue

Posted by Robert Trujillo/Tres on June 30, 2010 at 7:57am

Robert Trujillo/Tres

Bayou by Jeremy Love A COMIC ABOUT AFRICAN AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY


Ive been seeing the BAYOU comic here and there for over two years.Today, I finally read some of it in my hands at the Oakland Public Library. It was dope! Serious themes and incredible eye for storytelling. I would say more, but

… Continue

Posted by Robert Trujillo/Tres on June 28, 2010 at 7:29pm

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