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February 2, 2010
- Works by the rising-star artist, musician, and poet Amiri Geuka Farris will go on display in not one or two, but three exhibitions in the U.S. Southeast during Black History Month 2010 and his new CD, The Weekend, will be released during the same period.Farris' work is currently on exhibit until March at the popular Brookegreen Gardens in Myrtle Beach, North Carolina. In December 2009, he was ...
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January 24, 2010
- "We are confronted with a fierce urgency of now."--Martin Luther King, Jr., from I Have A DreamThe incredible world-destroying 7.0 earthquake that erased life as Haiti knew it January 12, 2010, has taken more lives than anyone is either able, prepared, or willing to count. It is the kind of horror that even the most masterful psychotronic film classic could never hope, or even want, ...
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January 14, 2010
- At the risk of sounding unforgivably vain, I have to confess that my favorite poem --only when forced to name ONE and if threatened with being deprived of books and pens and paper for the rest of my life-- would have to be "The Onyx of Savannah" by Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU. It is a poem that just happens to be about my work, but that's only one part of the reason I ...
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December 28, 2009
- From significant advances in the field of personalized medicine–– which uses information regarding an individual’s specific genetic make-up and environment to diagnose and treat diseases–– to the awarding of the Nobel Prize to five brilliant women and the “miracle on the Hudson,” the year 2009 is one that has been marked by everything from exceptional achievements that exemplified ...
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December 24, 2009
- Christmas and memories thereof are always a mixture of inspired joy and lingering sorrow for me. There are many reasons why both responses fit unyieldingly into the holiday equation but the following is one I will have to honor and meditate upon for the rest of my life: If they, my niece April and her son Justin, had been victims of terrorism or the casualty of a war fought in the name of ...
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December 16, 2009
- One of only a few living African-American authors whose Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novels are studied regularly on a high school and university level, Toni Morrison has also written and edited influential nonfiction works, like The Black Book, by Middleton A. Harris. Originally published in January 1974, Random House released a 35th Anniversary Edition of The Black Book just last month ...
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December 11, 2009
- winter is a mink-warm distance between decades... quantum snowflakes of space and time zones... ...flutter on a breeze... of random thoughts... there is your candle-lit laughterstitching the gashes in my heart... and your brandy-colored eyesbalancing the axisof planets whirling through my soul... as ice ...
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December 8, 2009
- The new Official Michael Jackson Opus, a 404-page 26-pound masterwork which generated tons of buzz after Kraken Opus announced its planned publication following news of the iconic singer's death, was published December 7, 2009. However, Jackson enthusiasts rushing to make a quick purchase of the title on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Target.com, will discover that only Amazon currently shows ...
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December 2, 2009
- Celebrated for visual works that have documented African-American cultural traditions and expanded the recognized styles of fine art in major exhibitions, Red Room member Michele Wood is also an award-winning book illustrator whose work adorns the pages of the modern holiday classic, Christmas Soul, and the recently published My Holy Bible for African-American Children. The Before Columbus ...
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November 27, 2009
- I. This rose of spiritual gratitude placed at the feet of a Rasta Warrior Woman showers the earth with sweetfire and hosannas and early morning glory. II. Beneath an African moon shining silver poems and a river of orchards singing purple praises a black rose bows her head like a black swan humbled by her crown of jade. III. Birdsongs weave grace in ...
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November 25, 2009
- The holidays are a good time to recall shared journeys in one's life and therefore also a good time to resume the presentation of Visionary Vibes, Letters from the Soul here at Red Room. If you missed the last installment of Letters from the Soul Number 6 please click this link or to start at the beginning click here . Also, I perhaps should point out that the language gets a bit rough in ...
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November 19, 2009
- Once, while still in the U.S. Air Force, I discussed the issue of the need for world peace with someone very close to me. At one point, she very sincerely asked a question I had never considered: "What if peace comes and nobody wants it?" I answered that if peace came and nobody wanted it, then the world would see to its immediate destruction. Sometimes I think peace is constantly ...
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November 14, 2009
- It says a lot that even while its principle star struggled to conserve creative energy and was simply "warming up" for the actual live performance scheduled to follow, Michael Jackson's This Is It snagged the October 30 weekend box office in the United States with $21,300,000. It says even more that just two weeks after its opening, as of November 12, 2009, the movie has played in ...
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November 6, 2009
- National Bookstore Day, November 7, 2009, has to be one of the best ideas anybody has come up with to help celebrate and preserve literary culture in our digitally-revolutionized age in a very long time. It gives me a perfect excuse to scrape up a few bucks and splurge on books other than those needed for research. But now that I think about it a bit more, it also should have been a good excuse ...
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November 1, 2009
- What movies are you watching for the holidays? Most people are more likely to think along the lines of movie classics like It's a Wonderful Life (1947) or the more modern The Preacher's Wife (1996) and megastar Jim Carrey's forthcoming Walt Disney blockbuster, A Christmas Carol when it comes to considering films to enjoy with one's family during the holidays. However, a number of films do a ...
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