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Mar.14.2011
As close to a million or more people pour into Savannah, Georgia, for the March 17 St. Patrick's Day Parade and associated festivities a number of them will also take time to visit the childhood home of America's iconic author, Flannery O'Connor, at 207 E. Charlton Street near Lafayette Square....
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Feb.26.2011
The publication of "Black History Month: What Would DuBois Do?" on AOL's Black Voices February 23 serves as a significant indicator of how relevant and powerful the teachings of the great Du Bois remain. Though not as celebrated in the United States as such figures as Martin Luther King...
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Feb.24.2011
Turn to a page in the year 1900 and we see the great educator and human rights advocate W.E.B. DuBois sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. It is unlikely that his "separate but equal" accommodations are anything close to comfortable, but they will serve their purpose.
He is on his way to...
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Feb.22.2011
Out of the 250,000 deaths caused by natural disasters in 2010, the overwhelming bulk of them occurred when the massive 7-point earthquake struck Haiti on January 12 and took some 230,000 lives, prompting concerted relief efforts that are going on to this day. A major part of those efforts has been...
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Feb.13.2011
May the winged heart
of Valentine's brilliant desires
spin your sobs into songs,
weave your dreams into blood-thick truth,
and lift your broken soul
into diamond-bright flights
of a joy-blessed fulfillment...
and love-astonished wonder.
by Aberjhani ©text & art Feb 2011
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Feb.04.2011
There's no question that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's hands are more than full these days with the war in Afghanistan, military tension between the two Koreas, relationship-building with China, and of course the revolution in Egypt. Nevertheless: Secretary Clinton took time out of her...
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Jan.25.2011
With the United Nation's proclamation of the year 2011 as the "International Year
for People of African Descent," the annual Black History Month observed by African Americans for nearly a century will reflect a deeper significance when it kicks off next week.
The proclamation was first...
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Jan.19.2011
"I run my fingers over her keyboard and suddenly it all starts up With a tinkling sound the music begins, then speeds up more and more..." --Reinaldo Arenas, The Parade Ends
Depending on its assigned purpose and on how it is carried out-- as in not designed to create havoc or...
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Dec.27.2010
The first decade of the 21st century ended in 2009 with concerns expressed worldwide over the state of the economy, and the second decade kicked off the same way in 2010. Historically, whatever challenging conditions have impacted upon Americans in general tends to hit African Americans twice as...
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Dec.22.2010
The holidays always presented one of the most challenging times during my years as a stay-at-home caregiver for my now deceased mother. Being male and spouse-less, I was not the best substitute for the generations that previously filled her holidays, but like most caregivers who neglect their own...
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Dec.17.2010
After receiving an invitation from Amazon to add an author's note to the site's product pages for my books, I accepted and found myself having quite a bit of fun looking back on the experiences of writing different books. The following reflections are on ELEMENTAL, the Power of Illuminated Love (...
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Dec.10.2010
After rumors of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's sensitive health issues began to circulate around the Internet several years ago, readers worldwide began to fear the great Nobel Laureate (1982) had written and published his final books. Videos posted on YouTube featured a "farewell note"...
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Nov.28.2010
The forthcoming publication of Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black was announced more than a year ago. You can tell from the title that the book is something of a compendium of my works in poetry, basically combining three previously published books: I Made My Boy Out of Poetry,...
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Oct.28.2010
For the better part of 2010, I've been working as part of an editorial team to help produce a series of history books on America's antebellum South. Like many of us who delve deeply into the past with hopes of retrieving something useful for the present, my attention became so absorbed by the...
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Oct.19.2010
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There is much to praise and little to criticize in WAKE UP!, the recent eleven-song album release from neosoul music master John Legend and legendary urban funksters band The Roots. In the world of music, genius plus genius often equals a beautiful thing, and this album is indeed a beautiful thing...
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The process of writing evolves one's consciousness and transforms the aspiring writer into an individual that he or she never fully imagined becoming. ”
—Gale Contemporary Authors
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A native of Savannah, Georgia (USA) Aberjhani is a winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award for his journalism, the Choice Academic Title and Best History Book Awards for his historical writings, the Creative Loafing Critic’s Pick Best Savannah Author Award for...
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