( “Embracing the Whole of Life” digital painting of James Baldwin by Aberjhani ©2024 modeled after original photography by Sedat Pakay ) The centennial celebration of the birth of author-activist James Baldwin in 2024 offers a unique opportunity for educators, students, advocates, and various groups to delve into the profound sociopolitical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of Baldwin's life and work. Of particular use in this endeavor may be this observation made by author-poet-artist Aberjhani: Please CLICK HERE FOR FULL FREE ACCESS to read entire article .

Here's a question worth considering: At the heart of the 8 compelling nonfiction stories and 5-article appendix which make up Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah is this interesting question: What would your life mean if you were living someone else's dream of what it should be? For some very good answers to why, please check out: https://www.prlog.org/13003205-dreams-of-the-immortal-city-literary-odyssey-through-savannahs-cultural-embroidery.html Cyberwit.net News Release

Like many of the real-life characters in its pages, including me, the author, Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah is a survivor. It has endured several powerful hurricanes, withstood the terror of too many computer crashes to count, eluded theft, and dodged falling ceilings. The real miracle is the book not only survived these successions of turmoil but managed to steadily evolve with the addition of my artwork to the nonfiction stories. To appreciate how truly exceptional that is, please note that when I first began writing the book I did not consider myself a visual artist of any kind at all: not an amateur digital craftsman, acrylic stylist, photographer, or portraitist. I was the author of Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player and co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance beginning a new literary adventure. Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah started with the experience of an actual dream in 1989. It had to do with a group of friends banding toge...

For the more sensitive souls among us, the notion of monetizing and exporting racism is too obscene to think about, especially in today’s unceasingly polarized social and political environment. It is painful to acknowledge that some human beings have it in their character to behave with such callously predatory disregard. But it is every bit as much a growing trend as fake news and movies featuring characters from the Marvel Universe or DC Comics. So what does that even mean? Very possibly that an already-volatile situation in #America and elsewhere in our otherwise magnificent Global Village is on its way to becoming worse before it gets better.  I will contend that one of the benefits of having had an African-American president in the White House for the past eight years has been his calming influence upon other Blacks as #videos continued to accumulate showing one black man, woman, or child after another shot and killed by someone under highly-questionable (or pain...