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Countdown of 10 great moments in 2010 (part 3): The prisoner and the poet - National African-American Art | Examiner.com

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Martina Davis-Correia, human rights activist and sister of death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. (photo by Getty Images) Please click this link for full story: Countdown of 10 great moments in 2010 (part 3): The prisoner and the poet - National African-American Art | Examiner.com

Susan L. Taylor's Rich Harvest of Empowering Inspiration

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(photo of Susan L. Taylor by Marc Brasz) When the NAACP in 2006 presented author and social activist Susan L. Taylor with its President’s Award, the organization publicly acknowledged what readers of Essence® Magazine had been experiencing for nearly four decades. Namely, that Ms. Taylor is among the most effective, dynamic, and beloved human resources on the planet. In All About Love (Urban Books) a rich of harvest of writings from Taylor ’s “In the Spirit” column, it’s easy to see why. A collection of more than 80 empowering editorials and three bonus dialogues, All About Love is all about life as we know, live, dread, treasure, and live it. Unlike too many book collections of short essays or creative nonfiction, this is not one aimed at demonstrating the intellectual profundity or virtuosity of the author. These are the observations, emotions, realizations and affirmations by which generations of women––and sometimes men––have mapped out the course of their daily lives and es...