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  • Ballad of the Harp Weaver by Edna St. Vincent Millay published in Vanity Fair June 1922

    THE BALLAD OF THE HARP-WEAVER by  Edna St. Vincent Millay   "Son," said my mother, When I was knee-high, "You've need of clothes to cover you, And not a rag have I. "There's nothing in the house To make a boy breeches, Nor shears to cut a cloth with Nor thread to take stitches. "There's nothing in the house But a loaf-end of rye, And a harp with a woman's h

  • A TRUTH IN THE SEA

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/A-TRUTH-IN-THE-SEA-1339272554 CONTENT TITLE: A TRUTH IN THE SEA SUBTITLE: A Marcus Preacher tale AUTHOR: Richard Murray @HDdeviant STORY: Summer is the time of ice cream, roller skating, or fun at the beach. Everyone is looking to avoid baking in the heat, seeing disturbing illusions, succumbing to the frying frustrations. Thus, a child dead at the b

  • Where Is Elaine Now ? part 2

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Where-Is-Elaine-Now-part-2-1339330593 CONTENT The law enforcer turns the pages of the diary to a page unfinished. March 3rd 2025 Ever since I received that vision of light in Elaine's home I haven't been able to stay focused throughout one day. I never discern an image when I have the episodes of epiphany. But I can feel a spirit, an energy, that I c

  • The Ride Of Your Life

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Ride-Of-Your-Life-1339286160 CONTENT TITLE: THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE Venger trapped the Heroes in the Maze of Doors. The doors forced the Heroes to disperse and Diana, the Acrobat, was eaten into a desert land. This was three days ago. Now after wandering in the desert, seemingly alone, she comes face to face with a sparkling horse, absent a shadow

  • IT Takes Two from Rob Base and EZ originally published in June 1st 1988

    The song was produced by Rob Base, DJ E-Z Rock, and William Hamilton and built around the Think break sample and other elements from Lyn Collins' 1972 song "Think (About It)." Rhonda Parris was brought in by Profile Records to sing the hook. video https://youtu.be/phOW-CZJWT0?si=7HGpgSzfprK6NAJz LYRICS Right about now, you're about to be possessed By the sounds of MC Rob Base and DJ, EZ Rock

  • Paths of Bimshire: Book One- Path of The Hunt from Shawn Alleyne

    Paths of Bimshire: Book One- Path of The Hunt June 2, 2022 "As you know, my Path is one of the most feared of the Paths, and for good reason." A young boy has entered The Year of The Turning, the year when it will be determined if he possesses enough power to be deemed worthy of a Path. Few people believe in him, including himself. But on the ceremonial day of The Threshold, family secre

  • #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #4

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-2026-2027-4-1339274920 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time between Black History Months, when many people including some Black people don't make an effort to emphasize Black History. A way to cover the rest of the year, the remaining 337 days between each 28. For this edition of Black337 we will speak of Black detectives. Re

  • WATN Chapter 2: Elaine - Ghostbusters 2

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Chapter-2-Elaine-Ghostbusters-2-1290273848 CONTENT PLEASE NOTE WHO CAN PARTICIPATE AND DATES OF SUBMISSION OR STYLE OF SUBMISSION Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun

  • WATN: Heroes of Dungeons 'n Dragons

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Heroes-of-Dungeons-n-Dragons-1337723923 CONTENT PLEASE NOTE TIMES TO SUBMIT TO GAIN PRIZES , if after time to submit to gain prizes the challenge is always open. Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fi

  • Rogue Computers, a talk 06/03/2025

    Rogue Computers, a talk 06/03/2025 POST https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/483-rogue-computer-programs/ COMMENT https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11631-could-ai-go-rogue-like-the-computers-in-the-matrix/#findComment-74197     REFERRAL CONTENT   The first thing is to define what going rogue means for a computer program?   If a computer program malfunctions is

  • Economic Corner 21 - 06/03/2025

    What is the counter plan to Schrumpts? Is it the prior status quo?     Did you think the end of the third white european imperial war/ cold war would not eventually lead to a major change in the relation of governments?   A question, and Schrumpft   Question What are Black owned luxury goods? To a restate, what products do wealthy blacks buy that are luxury from

  • Onmyoji 06/05/2018

    Onmyoji 06/05/2018 Ok, I learned about the Onmyoji contest on friday. While going to deviantart to look at some entries for the Jaeger contest. Well, having no knowledge to the online massive multiplayer game Onmyoji, and little time to conceptualize what my entry will be, I came up with the following. https://hddeviant.deviantart.com/art/Onmyoji-submission-emma-and-the-seven-748288623 Th

  • K-12 book list

    if you have a book you think should be mandatory reading for a black child age kindergarten to twelfth grade, please note it in the comments to this post or the following post  https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/484-k-12-book-list/  

  • What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me from alicia mccalla 06/06/2025

    What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me from alicia mccalla 06/06/2025   What My Google Dashboard Just Taught Me by Alicia McCalla Pinterest, Power, and Publishing Read on Substack     https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11658-what-my-google-dashboard-just-taught-me-from-aliccia-mccalla/        

  • CENTO Series episode 107

    CENTO Series episode 107   desperately will wrap me in a poetry, https://www.deviantart.com/mysticalpoet/art/Perhaps-Healing-1037975778   A song of hope, a song of cheer, Gentle whispers of goodwill, Wrap you up in festive cheer. In hearts and hearths, it takes hold. Bells chime in rhythmic glee, And festive lights in colors swirl, Echoes this tune, pure and b

  • Happening Today

    My Thoughts on "Domestic Triangle" by qtcomicsblog 06/09/2025

    My Thoughts on "Domestic Triangle" by qtcomicsblog https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/785924854452994048/thoughts-on-qtcomicsblog-domestic-triangle?source=share   TEXT  The main cast, the throuple, are financially steady, so that is important for the overall storytelling, this isn't a set of people financially struggling or just above poor, ala goo

  • Gospel of Joseph 06/11/2014

    Gospel of Joseph 06/11/2014   Gospel of Joseph literature from the tradition of the earliest people we now call christian by Richard Murray Synopsis The life of Jesus told through the words of a man unlike any other, Joseph, the man who raised him. Find inspiration in this traditional telling of the life of Jesus, from before Nicea or the Bible. book page https://www.kobo.com/ebook/gospel-of-josep

  • Jaeger 06/12/2028

    Jaeger 06/12/2028 Okay, here is my Jaeger submission. I had three conceptsm first which i liked alot but didn't really fit the narrative was Old Jaeger Park. The second was the Legendary Central Park Five, whose story I wrote, and comic, whosei did not finish. The last idea was a superway. In each idea, i wanted to do something else with JAegers, old used Jaegers/another kind of interwoven wi

  • Where Are They Now: Elaine - Ghostbusters 2

    Ok fellow writers, let's have some fun, and answer the most important questions, the most challenging mysteries... Where Are They Now !!  First up, a little lady some of you may have heard of , but we all must wonder after her dire predictions. Where Is Elaine from Ghostbusters 2 Now!? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Where-Are-They-Now-Elaine-Ghostbusters-2-1205470051 Audio

  • Israel unilaterally struck Iran 06/12/2025

    Israel has committed a war prompting action against Iran. Shooting all these missiles at Tehran is an act of war. So... who does what is the next question. If Iran does nothing, they could implode from the inside. Iran has to act militarily. From the post below, many in the government in the USA are willing to let Israel and Iran have it out. Saudi Arabia + United Arab Emirates + Qatar + Iraq are

  • CENTO Series episode 108

    CENTO Series episode 108   I could thrust my hatred into you. And you love being her. But I won’t be him. https://www.deviantart.com/thefulkrum/art/Sweet-Reciprocity-108498134   we will be eternal even when the world let me shout our love, but I don't want to think about it, blessed by love, https://www.deviantart.com/skylizzy/art/letter-to-my-love-1035589654

  • Flag Day GOOD NEWS CALENDAR

    Flag Day <june 14th , June 14, 1777 the usa flag was adopted : "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.">- commemorating the Flag of the usa. IT is not a federal holiday. But, what does the USA flag mean to you? I ask for various text or graphics depict

  • My Thoughts to questions of Ryan Cooglers Sinners from Movies That Move We

    I was asked by Movies That Move We https://www.youtube.com/@moviesthatmoveswe/videos     MY ANSWER   hmm coogler's message... I see a number of them... first, he was willing to spend his money on a story involving Black DOS heritage that isn't a biopic while is an adventure tale, so his first message is for black people who have the money to invest in making sto

  • Author Milton Davis reads excerpts from Muscadine Wine and Spacefunk. 6/18/2025

    Author @Milton [ Milton Davis ] reads excerpts from Muscadine Wine and Spacefunk. 6/18/2025 transcript 0:09 [Music] welcome y'all thanks for coming um my 0:15 name is Milton Davis i am a author/publisher and I specialize in science fiction and fantasy based on 0:20 African African diaspora culture and traditions and so today I'm going to be uh talking about about a couple of books

  • Juneteenth GOOD NEWS CALENDAR

    Juneteenth is July 19th , a day celebrated as the day when all black people in the usa knew that the slave system had been destroyed, not legally abolished, which is the 13th amendment.  State text or graphics depicting Juneteenth to you.   https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-juneteenth-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=908   Juneteenth books lis

  • The Freeman's Complaint , a late response to the Slave's complaint 06/19/2025

    The Freeman's Complaint , a late response to the Slave's complaint 06/19/2025   A poem for Juneteenth   The Freeman's Complaint , a late response to the Slave's complaint   Forever! was wrote by my forebear long ago a dreamy exaltation, to know to reach where our ancestors sew before unwanted immigrant woe   However! I ponder unsure from where I lo

  • June Solstice GOOD NEWS CALENDAR

    The June Solstice is between June 20th and June 22nd , in 2020, is on the 20th, it will be in the moment 5:43 PM on Saturday   In the northern hemisphere summer begin, in the  southern hemisphere winter begin.   The sun will appear to be at its highest point in the sky in the northern hemisphere, the lowest point in the sky in the southern hemisphere.   In parallel, d

  • Kickstarter x Tubi: FilmStream Collective Fund 06/20/2025

    Nice Opportunity https://www.kickstarter.com/tubi I am thinking about starting a kickstarter for my film screenplay to be a film. Check it out. Do you think it warrant being made into a film. My screenplay [ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-nyotenda ] WEBSITE PAGE Kickstarter x Tubi: FilmStream Collective Fund A new initiative helping independent filmmakers get funded

  • NEFTi Short Film Competition 06/20/2025

    NEFTi Short Film Competition 06/20/2025 Apply The NEFTi Short Film Competition is back but in an exciting and different format. Celebrating the Art of Guerilla Filmmaking, a high-energy challenge for emerging African filmmakers to create a 6-minute fiction short film in just a few days during Durban FilmMart (DFM) 2025. Selected finalists will write, shoot, and edit a short film in line

  • CENTO Series episode 109

    CENTO Series episode 109   apply a bandaid, then, and hope for the best dare you take a step backwards, make it your best step https://www.deviantart.com/pineliquor/art/hand-cream-for-a-dry-season-1037848577   As an emptiness, The sea pushes me away A moaning, stray cat in the sand,    Placed as a treasured trophy https://www.deviantart.com/midn1ghtink/art/Shell-NaP

  • Juneteenth cross 250 years of USA : Literary Verite

    A Juneteenth crossing 250 years of USA aalbc project : Literary Verite     https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/11690-a-juneteenth-crossing-250-years-of-usa-aalbc-project-literary-verite/  

  • CBL Juneteenth 06/22/2025

    CBL Juneteenth 06/22/2025 PHOTS AND EVENT INFORMATION HERE   Presented by Sunday School Zine, The Bevy is a visual and sonic exhibition featuring live musical performances from Lambkin and J Words, record selections from Niyah West and the SLICK DOWN crew, and a myriad of visual and projector installations from LA to NYC. The Bevy, an expansive word meaning both “gathering” and “pre

  • DJ KOmax

    DJ KOmax https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DJ-KOmax-Color-me-club-kaiju-1210712704 status update https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2863&type=status     EMBED CODE  

  • ZOhran Mamdani legislation

    This is the legislation Zohran Mamdani implemented in the state assembly https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Zohran-K-Mamdani/sponsor/   Each link is to the full documentation of each law.  When I look at the laws he led on the following issues, listed below with enumeration of instance. The MTA and roads he will not have influence over as mayor of NYC. But none of his laws taxed

  • The Japanese Twitter Killer

    Japan executes man dubbed the "Twitter killer," convicted serial killer who murdered and dismembered 9 people Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022. Takahiro Shiraishi, 34, was hanged for killing his young victims, all but one of whom were women, af

  • CENTO Series episode 110

    CENTO Series episode 110   what do you see? by the brilliance of our own stars here  with all our tears https://www.deviantart.com/ink-singer/art/all-that-glitters-isn-t-gold-1038502453   The groove of yours of knots and tugs and shame, right now will save today https://www.deviantart.com/midn1ghtink/art/Cat-s-Cradle-NaPo24-4-1038586302   IN AMENDMENT Ce

  • what do I think of what is commonly called A.I. ?

    Troy [ https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/9056-troy/ ]  asked the following @richardmurray What do you think about the proliferation of AI generated art and content?   MY ANSWER   @Troy Well... I will break up your question first, because the ever growing use of synthography , from corporate or personal use, influence ranges.  So , I restructure your question, what do

  • New Voices Award 06/30/2025

    ABOUT THE NEW VOICES AWARD from @Lee and Low Books Established in 2000, the New Voices Award is given biennially to an unpublished writer of color or Native/Indigenous writer for a picture book manuscript.  Manuscripts may be FICTION, NON-FICTION, or POETRY for children ages 5 to 12. Manuscripts should address the needs of children of color or Native/Indigenous children by providing stor

  • L RON HUBBARD creators of the future June 30th 2025 due

    L RON HUBBARD creators of the future June 30th 2025 due   writers contest https://writersofthefuture.com/enter-writer-contest/ illustrators contest https://writersofthefuture.com/enter-the-illustrator-contest/   I Contacted an administrator for L Ron Hubbard and they said, as long as a work wasn't used for profit it can be applied.  So I chose to select from the followi

  • Tubi x Blacklist horror initiative 2026 challenge final day

    Submissions are now open for our new horror initiative with Tubi! [ https://blcklst.com/programs/tubi-black-list-horror-initiative?mc_cid=2d68c3555c&mc_eid=e0b642193c ]    Emerging and established writers with a feature script in the horror genre are encouraged to submit their project for further consideration in the Tubi x Black List Horror Initiative. Submissions will remain open u

  • Sylessae 07/01/2021

    Sylessae 07/01/2021 My submission for the Sylessae draw in your style invitational on deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Sylessae-Draw-THis-In-Your-Style-884297630 My version of Sylessae in my calligraphic art style- look at bottom HEre is the poem  I title: Sylessae Moon  Terran Companion Turning the solar gaze into embrace Luna L'etudiant de la vie d'

  • The Fulgurantess in ancient kemet see DJ KOmax 07/01/2025

    The Fulgurantess traveling back to ancient Kemet see DJ Komax causing trouble in the distance. Multi image work 1. Fulgurantes viewing Completed work 2. Fulgurantes viewing color version 3. Fulgurantes viewing Black and white version 4. What Fulgurantess view whole 5. DJ Komax color 6. DJ Komax black and white   https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/

  • The Fulgurantess fighting DJ Komax

    The Fulgurantess fighting DJ Komax Prior Fulgurantess https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Fulgurantess-mixedmedia-1172385423   Prior DJ Komax https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/DJ-KOmax-Color-me-club-kaiju-1210712704   for the The Draw It Again Improvement Contest https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Draw-Me-Again-Duo-color-1213279251

  • Boomerang film soundtrack 1992

    "End of the Road" (performed by Boyz II Men) Babyface, LA Reid, Daryl Simmons [Intro: Michael McCary] Girl, you know we belong together I have no time for you to be playin' with my heart like this You'll be mine forever, baby, you just see [Verse 1: Nathan Morris] We belong together And you know that I'm right Why do you play with my heart Why do you play with my mind? Sa

  • Granting to Evil , circa the film Sinners from Coogler

    someone asked Sinners - Evil Cannot happen without your consent...true or false     the following is my reply Well... as a writer...   when I look at Coogler + Peele, the two most commercially successful black writer-directors in the last twenty years [commercial success defined as profit earned from films, not creative assessment] both make one and done films, n

  • My only and maybe first Scam Post

    A Contest With Prizes - Best Fake Scam   My Entry   I really love your artwork. But I don't know if you have the courage to be a daring artist. I have been hired by collecttrumpcards to get artist of quality and daring to help finance the Presidents causes through 2026 /2027/2028 Trump digital trading cards. If your card garners enough wealth for the presidents fight to free th

  • P Diddy not convicted on counts of racketeering + sex trafficking

    First I am not a fan of P Diddy, before during or after his trial. And I thought he was going to jail. I know one thing. I can't attack a woman on camera and not get assault.  It is that simple for me. When you have money you can get lawyers and the delicacies of the law go into play.  I only truly know one song of his.  All ABout THe Bejamins. And although I like it , it is never in my

  • CENTO Series episode 106

    CENTO Series episode 106   My mind escapes Happy to see you watch me from above, in a shared home, a shared bed My mind whirs back as she laced lilies into my clothes. https://www.deviantart.com/xyron7777777/art/Time-Traveler-1037728907   a limbo made of our own sickening dreams and the pleasures of hell the last outpost before the witching hour https://www.devi

  • KirillK's Bard 05/31/2025

    KirillK's Bard songs https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1201282119 KirillK's Bard at a magical school https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/1201279865   Original Post https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2861&type=status   EMBED CODE     Songwriting Contest from @writeddreams2reality through @crliterature comment https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1192483791/52

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