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Day 2 of the 2008 Black History Online Book Fair Simba Sana the man, the legend, the leader! Click on the player or the link below to listen to the Black History Month Featured Guests Show with Simba Sana and authors who loved Karibu Books. He explains the rise and fall of a industry giant....

AFROETRY Afrocentric Poetry that Educates & Motivates by Linda Mayfield-Hayes SLS Intimate Conversations Showcase Recently Ella Curry, CEO of EDC Creations (www.edc-creations.com) and founder of the Sankofa Literary Society (www.sankofaliterarysociety.org) had the opportunity to talk with the author...

8 Ways to Motivate Yourself in ‘08 by: Lyle Johnson 2007-12-02 16:38 But as time moves on, instead of your weight and inches dropping your gym attendance drops. The year 2008 is just a few days away. Fitness gyms across the country will be filled with people who want to make a drastic change -...

A Love So Deep by Suzetta Perkins Genre: Inspirational Romance Rating: 8 (EchelonBooks); 4 (Amazon) Review by Tavares S. Carney “Family, Friends and The Ex-Factor” Meet Graham Peters, recently widowed husband of Amanda, to whom he was happily married for 40 years – also father to two adult...

One Word Can Change Everything! I want to share a simple but important key in goal setting. For many years, successful people have been writing down their goals and affirmations. Then, they discipline themselves to read those goals or affirmations every day. This is one proven method of getting...

What do you stand for? by James Guitard Baltimore Times Originally posted 12/10/2007 What type of community stands disproportionately in long holiday sales lines in the wee hours of the morning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on consumer products that depreciate in value, while...

She's No Angel (Paperback) by Janine A. Morris Book Description "Reminiscent of Waiting to Exhale," (Booklist), Diva Diaries secured Janine A. Morris' reputation as one of today's most exciting... Read More »

The Sankofa Literary Society (SLS) will host its annual Holiday Book & Gift Fair online this year! That's right, book lovers from around the world will now be able to attend the event 24 / 7 and purchase books for gifts.  For the 2007 Holiday Season the SLS will vigorously promote literacy, new authors, and the independent author or small press!

All Sankofa free submissions; promote all Sankofa offers and EDC programs. AAAP was founded to promote awareness through African American Literature. It is my hope that authors, aspiring authors, poets of African American culture can be a positive force through learning and helping all who try to inspire others and themselves through the art of writing. AAAP was founded to promote awareness through African American Literature. It is my hope that authors, aspiring authors, poets of African American culture can be a positive force through learning and helping all who try to inspire others and themselves through the art of writing.

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Welcome to our web site, and thank you for taking the time to learn more about our firm. Since 2002, we at EDC Creations, has represented both individual and corporate clients around the country to offering top-quality marketing services, graphic design, website and image development, event consulting  and print production. Applying rigorous energy, experience, and resourcefulness to every project we accept, our staff members are dedicated to your success.We have the experience, equipment and expertise to make sure that hiringEDC Creations is the last thing you have to do before the responses start rolling in from all your new found confidence.EDC Creations can help you breathe new vigor and strength into your company. Our creations leave a lasting impact! EDC Creations can enable you to find, attract, retain, and grow new business with increased effectiveness and reduced costs. We combine marketing promotions, creative web development and professional production with our leading-edge technologies to create marketing communications solutions that exceed expectations and deliver greater customer service for your company.

Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born on this day in 1868 in Texarkana, Texas. A skilled pianist and composer, Joplin started a 20-year ragtime craze with the release of his composition "Maple ...(MORE)

African American Empowerment Blog (AAEB) What is the African American empowerment blog? The AAEB is a blog focusing on news, music, poetry, art, quotes, facts, books and people that uplift and empower African Americans.

WELCOME to OOSA Online Book Club!We are an online book club and reviewing team that focuses on African American authors. We are dedicated to giving honest reviews. We wish to further promote African American literature by taking special interest in new and self published authors. As lovers of the written word, we have read hundreds of titles as our motto is,"if it's well written, we'll read it." We invite any author, new or established, to submit a book for review.

One of the beautiful aspects of the written word is that it can be a historical reference that can be revisited by generations to come. Books can capture legacies and remind us of the importance of documenting our histories.My book, THE MESSAGE: 100 LIFE LESSONS FROM HIP-HOP'S GREATEST SONGS, has been out for about three weeks and I've had several "older hip-hoppers" ask me what I know about hip-hop, probably because of my baby face and youthful energy. If I didn't know better, I'd be slightly offended. I'm mean I'm fully aware that I wasn't chillin' in the parks when Kool Herc was spinning, but I ain't no spring chicken either--evident by the fact that I wouldn't be caught dead doing the Chicken Noodle Soup dance. I'll leave that to the younger, younger folks. But this question of how do I know about hip-hop is quite silly as if I can't pick up books like Jeff Chang's CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP, Nelson George's HIP HOP AMERICA, Bakari Kitwana's THE HIP HOP GENERATION or several other titles (just check those shown above) which aim to document the culture and in turn add to my appreciation for the architects who paved the way. Luckily many of those said architects who were there when the culture was just growing are still around to talk about it. So in celebration of hip-hop history, as I promised in a previous post, I've put together a mini, multimedia feature which includes words, audio, and video featuring first-hand accounts from the legendary DMC, MC Lyte, and CL Smooth. Read, listen, or watch them (I'm trying to please everyone, and do realize that tragically, not everybody likes to read) as they discuss their personal relationships with hip-hop, the inspirations behind their songs included in THE MESSAGE, and what they've learned from the culture.If we don't document our stories, who will?GO ON TO DMC... Next

Black Women Speak is a community blog for black women of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities to speak from the heart to each other about everything! As black women from diverse cultures, we have our own unique challenges, a plethora of solutions and wisdom to spare. This blog for african american and black women is created just for you!

I'm not much of a romantic and I don't cry at weddings. But this story in the NYTimes today nearly made me cry. Nooses - to ignore or not?Two pieces this week question whether or not we should pay any attention to things like nooses that are used to spark a rise in us. In today's Washington Post Robin Givhan, in writing about Kara Walker's retrospective at the Whitney, writes about how much power we give these symbols. And how we should no longer give that power to the symbol and to the people who use it against us. And earlier this week I listened to John McWhorter's commentary on NPR and he said very similar things about not giving over power to the symbol. I generally argue against that kind of thinking which essentially urges us to let racist symbols be. I don't want to ignore those symbols - and certainly if I ever see a noose anywhere near me or my family, I certainly will raise a stink. But is that the right thing? It, as McWhorter and Givhan argue, doesn't work and doesn't matter. We hold vigils and "raise saying" and still the symbols are waved in our faces. So what does it matter? Does a noose, raised by an ignorant white person (or any other race), erase or diminish any of our opportunities? Or accomplishments?It's a part of the discussion we haven't had yet, I think, among all the Jena 6 protests. And it's interesting that we can come up with this much support and energy around this one case, when so much else that we can impact is going on.# posted by write : 8:54 AM  0 comments  

I'm not much of a romantic and I don't cry at weddings. But this story in the NYTimes today nearly made me cry. Nooses - to ignore or not?Two pieces this week question whether or not we should pay any attention to things like nooses that are used to spark a rise in us. In today's Washington Post Robin Givhan, in writing about Kara Walker's retrospective at the Whitney, writes about how much power we give these symbols. And how we should no longer give that power to the symbol and to the people who use it against us. And earlier this week I listened to John McWhorter's commentary on NPR and he said very similar things about not giving over power to the symbol. I generally argue against that kind of thinking which essentially urges us to let racist symbols be. I don't want to ignore those symbols - and certainly if I ever see a noose anywhere near me or my family, I certainly will raise a stink. But is that the right thing? It, as McWhorter and Givhan argue, doesn't work and doesn't matter. We hold vigils and "raise saying" and still the symbols are waved in our faces. So what does it matter? Does a noose, raised by an ignorant white person (or any other race), erase or diminish any of our opportunities? Or accomplishments?It's a part of the discussion we haven't had yet, I think, among all the Jena 6 protests. And it's interesting that we can come up with this much support and energy around this one case, when so much else that we can impact is going on.# posted by write : 8:54 AM  0 comments  

Barry Bonds, Victim of Out-of-Control IRS Agent Baisden "apologizes" to ColorOfChange.orgAfro-Netizen supports 10Questions video question on publicly financed electionsJena 6, the Black netroots & the importance of media literacyStanley O'Neal: Ex-CPL (Chief Predatory Lender)Still out of Africa, Part TwoBritain should pay for its colonialismSubprime lending debacle's first top executive "victim"Wear Red, Sisters. Be Silent No LongerThe Political Wisdom of Stevie Wonder

I just want to give a big shout out to my wife for tonight’s display of darn good parenting. This is the brilliant stuff that Armin Brott and the Sears’ would never have the guts to put in one of their books.