Ben Okri's "Famished Road" Leads to Thrilling Reading Pleasure (Part 1)

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Created by author, poet, artist, and historian Aberjhani, The CREATIVE SPIRIT OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE is presented with the same inspired and joy-filled intentions that gave the world one of the most dynamically rich periods of art, music, literature, theatre, and progressive social activism it has ever known.(Original writings copyrighted by author. Artwork copyrighted by individual artists.)

Ben Okri's "Famished Road" Leads to Thrilling Reading Pleasure (Part 1)

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Countdown of 10 Amazing Moments from the Year 2011: No. 2 President Barack Obama - National African-American Art | Examiner.com

President Barack Obama greeting military personnel at Pensacola base in 2010 . (White House photo) Prior to leaving Washington D.C. on December 23 to join his family on Christmas vacation in Hawaii, President Barack Obama spent the week advocating for passage of the Payroll Tax Cut Extension, finally achieving a last-minute victory in the kind of intense political tug of war that characterized much his presidency in 2011. His endurance in his third year as the “leader of the free world” and the often-debated advances he has achieved on behalf of the U.S. in the face of economic and political upheavals that shook the world place him at number 2 in the current countdown . To read more of the article by Aberjhani please click this link : Countdown of 10 amazing moments from the year 2011: No. 2 President Obama - National African-American Art | Examiner.com

This is why hip-hop icons like LL Cool J tweet positive quotes - by Aberjhani

The ever-popular LL Cool J on the March 2013 cover of ESSENCE Magazine . “What I’m sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here’s some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.” --LL Cool J (from Old School New School ) It was very difficult not to laugh when reading Robbie Ettelson’s satirical rant, “Being Positive is for Chumps,” in last week’s online Acclaim Magazine , against celebrity rappers for their inspiration-oriented tweets. In fact, I’ll admit it. Even though the sarcastic tirade was based in large part on a quote from The River of Winged Dreams , the subtitle of the piece almost sent me rolling on the floor: “If Robbie of Unkut comes across one more inspirational tweet from a rapper he's going to vomit rainbows.” At the same time, I smiled at the realization that the quotes which apparently have threatened to turn Robbie’s tummy inside out were often, for the rappers who shared them, not ju...

The Year of James Baldwin Now in Full Classic Literary Swing (part 1) - by Aberjhani

Author James Baldwin in St. Paul de Vence, France, 1976. (photo by Dmitri Kasterine) “It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far truer and far more powerful than any of our labels: the labels change, the terror is constant.” –James Baldwin, from the essay Nothing Personal Members of New York City’s cultural arts community made a rare kind of decision earlier this year and the results of that decision continue to generate exceptional events and responses. They–– as in Columbia University School of the Arts, Harlem Stage, and New York Live Arts–– elected to observe The Year of James Baldwin from April 2014 until June 2015 in honor of the late iconoclastic African-American author’s 90th birthday August 2, 2014. Long before he died on December 1, 1987, millions came to recognize the indelible mark...

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Skylark in Contemplative Creative Flight: I am a visual artists whose works can be found on Fine Art American and an author whose books are as follows: --Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah (2019) --I Made My Boy Out of Poetry (1998) --The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003/2017) --Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (2003/2010) --Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World (2007) --The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2008) --ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (2008) --The River of Winged Dreams (2010) Savannah: The Immortal City (Editor, 2010) --Savannah: Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane, Inside the Slave Trade (Editor, 2011) --Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black (2012)

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