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Richard Murray Hearth

RIchard Murray Creative Table

Dear Readers,  I tend to enjoy reading various articles on writing , the industry, the concepts, et cetera. parallel to craft articles. These topics can be fun or engaging. As some of you know, I have a controlled electronic footprint, meaning, I don't keep old posts. This blog never had fifteen posts and never will cause I don't like ejunk. But, I realize, aside my posts to what I created and create, I need a post to just chit chat if you will. So this post will serve that function, throug
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Interview to Jessica Amadi

This is my Q&A to Jessica Amadi , Rivers Angels FC media officer   When did you start as the media officer to Rivers Angels F.C. ? August 28, 2015    Is there any media officer to a sporting team or organization that you admire?  That would be the former media officer of defunct Dolphins, China Acheru   The Nigerian league is the strongest womens league in C.A.F. , what should it emulate from other leagues media-wise to grow?  It should get closer to the communities and always
MARKETING IS A 4-LETTER WORD

HELP WANTED

"No one wants to pay for distraction, but they will pay if it's packaged as help." (me)   How help is defined is tricky. It depends on the client/customer's wants. If your prospective customer wants to escape their environment, then consider if you, the independent author have the skills, resources, and experience packaged in your book to help.    If your book is the solution, then show them how it can get what they want. In this case, adventure, exotic destination, and a
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What to the slave is the 4th of July? from Frederick Douglass

Date July 5, 1852 Venue Corinthian Hall Location Rochester, New York, United States ORATION, DELIVERED IN CORINTHIAN HALL, ROCHESTER, BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JULY 5TH, 1852. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens : HE who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over me, q
MARKETING IS A 4-LETTER WORD

A Liberating Love | An analysis of Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson

Ebby Freeman and Janie Crawford: Women Who Freed Others Without Sacrificing Themselves. A little before the Christmas rush, I finished reading Good Dirt by Charmaine Wilkerson, and it felt like a present to myself, a present of knowing. While some readers may feel sympathy for Ebony “Ebby” Freeman, she left me feeling elevated, certain that she fully embodied the resource of Love, a love we are all created in and gifted from THE SOURCE. On the surface, Good Dirt tells the story of a Massachus
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The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts

it was not published till 2002. I wonder how many unpublished works from black people in the 1800s exist. referal https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002811 content <iframe src="https://collections.library.yale.edu/uv.html#manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.library.yale.edu%2Fmanifests%2F2002811&c=0&m=0&cv=0&config=&locales=en-GB%3AEnglish+%28GB%29%2Ccy-GB%3ACymraeg%2Cfr-FR%3AFran%C3%A7ais+%28FR%29%2Cpl-PL%3APolski%2Csv-SE%3ASvenska%2Cxx-XX%3AEnglish+%28GB%29+%28
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The Heroic Slave from Frederick Douglass

INFO The Heroic Slave Frederick Douglass wrote only one work of fiction: this novella, loosely based on a true incident, about a slave who leads a rebellion on board a slave ship. Although it doesn't mention Stowe, it can be read as Douglass' attempt to contest Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novella's description of Madison Washington's appearance closely follows Stowe's first description of Tom. The story Douglass tells, though, allows him to reject her "simple" slave hero (Tom is probably the source
MARKETING IS A 4-LETTER WORD

First Chapter: Bantu Waltz When the Stylus Hits the Soul

The First Chapter celebrates impactful storytelling, featuring Malaika Mutere's Bantu Waltz, where music, identity, and colonial survival intertwine through a powerful, evocative narrative. Bantu Waltz : Nya's Archangel Story by Malaika Mutere Reviewed by MELEvery writer knows: the first chapter is a promise. It’s where you bring your best pen forward. And if done right, that first chapter becomes a map, a mood, and a motive. That’s why I bring to you, The First Chapter, a feature dedicated to
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Oscar Micheauz Screenplay, The BEtrayal

For years I have tried to get a screenplay from Micheaux. I know he made books but most of his books are very old, in expensive collections and have only been photocopied, not transcribed, and if transcribed the stories are in other works.  But the betrayal is the only access to a screenplay I am aware of Here is the extended page https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/677-oscar-devereaux-micheaux-books-plus-films/  
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Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech 1895

Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Speech ADDRESS BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, PRINCIPAL TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA, AT OPENING OF ATLANTA EXPOSITION, Sept. 18th, 1895.   Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Board of Directors and Citizens:   One third of the population of the South is of the Negro race. No enterprise seeking the material, civil, or moral welfare of this section can disregard this element of our population and reach the
Richard Murray Hearth

Richard Murray Creative Table 6

MY CREATIVE TABLE Mimada cheerleader noddy , Laprimatorte tutorial , poetic critique of illumination by chaosfive-55 , fauxnuts+where are they now charlie brown , new horizons coloring page and challenge , new horizons stamp, right after the fork in the road , where are they now danny and sandy example story - we more together , mardi gras die, to tap the tap + deviantart feb 2026 profile badge , city of fools calligraphy creativemomentum , new years totem seasonal beast portal , DNB heart of lo
Mike Weedall

The Great Dismal Swamp & Maroons Residents

More than one reader has contacted me asking how I managed to explicitly portray the Great Dismal Swamp in “Escape To The Maroons.” Since that was my intent, I’ll take the compliment. But after visiting the place, I don’t know that any writer can truly describe how extreme surviving there must have been. When I traveled to Virginia and spent a day touring the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, a Ranger drove me around to show me several highlights, including Lake Drummond. Today’s
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Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year https://x.com/i/trending/1976034504532730031 https://www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubisoft-cancelled-a-post-civil @traver8e said "white fragility" https://x.com/traver8e/status/1976099790661337174my comment yes and ubisoft lack of foresight and black game players open mindedness.... I will be blunt, all video game companies want all the video game players money. from a white nationalist on welfare in lousiana to a black mi
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Can I Use AI To Make Models For 3D Printing?

Can I Use AI To Make Models For 3D Printing? By Caleb Kraft With all the hubbub around generative AI, it isn’t a stretch to start wondering in what new areas of making we might see this stuff proliferate. You can easily have ChatGPT write text for you or analyze your writing. You can instruct Midjourney, Dall-E, and other image generators to draw highly detailed, pixel-perfect creations in a variety of styles. What about 3D printing though? Can you type into a text box and obtain
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Those who hate AI , the war is officially over

well, with this initiative, I think the future of "AI"/Synthography is huge going forward so all the artists who like to talk about how they want to delete "AI" art I think have to have a wake up call , it's over. the children today, will embrace "AI", this initiative in my eyes is the death knell to any anti "AI" movement https://orise.orau.gov/ai-challenge/   IN AMENDMENT I am not a user of "AI". Anyone who has communicated with me knows I do everything as manually as poss
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NEGRO SPIRITUALS + WORK SONGS

The Negro Spirituals predate the USA, as do the Work Songs. Imagine what has been lost is how the NEgro Spirituals plus work songs changed from the early 1500s to circa 1865, when the war between the states ended. I don't even know how that knowledge can be obtained as written records for black art were not allowed by the white enslavers.....   NEGRO SPIRITUALS The Project Gutenberg eBook of Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere
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THE GARIES AND THIER FRIENDS

Francis Johnson Webb was a grandson of Aaron Burr, yes the one who shot Hamilton. Webb wrote The Garies and Their Friends (1857)   Language: English Credits: Produced by Suzanne Shell, Beth Scott and PG Distributed Proofreaders *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Beth Scott and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE GARIES AND THEIR FRIENDS Frank J. Webb 1857 Preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe TO THE LADY NOEL BYRON THI
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Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States by William Well Brown

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States is an 1853 novel by United States author and playwright William Wells Brown about Clotel and her sister, fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. full text https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/346-clotel-from-william-wells-brown/   The Project Gutenberg eBook of Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the
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Le Mulâtre from Victor Séjour two versions split by an essay

Le Mulâtre from Victor Séjour "Le Mulâtre" ("The Mulatto") is a short story by Victor Séjour, a free person of color and Creole of color born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was written in French, Séjour's first language, and published in the Paris abolitionist journal Revue des Colonies in 1837. It is the earliest extant work of fiction by an African-American author. It was noted as such when it was first translated in English, appearing in the first edition of the Norton Anthology o
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Weekly  Anglo-African and  The Pine and Palm - Excerpts from 1861–1862+Blake; or The Huts of America: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba from Martin Delany,

Weekly  Anglo-African and  The Pine and Palm  Excerpts from 1861–1862 ARTICLE   Content Weekly Anglo-African and The Pine and Palm (1861-1862) Spring 2018 – No. 4 Edited and introduced by Brigitte Fielder, Cassander Smith, and Derrick R. Spires Introduction Resolved, That we firmly, flatly, uncompromisingly oppose, condemn and denounce as unfair and unjust, as unwise and as unchristian, the fleeing, colonizing efforts urged by James Redpath, the white, seconded by George L
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Architecture Vertner Woodson Tandy

Vertner Woodson Tandy  designed St Phillips Church, financed and designed and utilized by Blacks[ st Phillips black church congregation] Villa Lewaro financed and designed and utilized by Blacks[madam cj walker and her daughter]  Madame CJ Walker's Townhouse in Harlem - financed and designed and utilized by Blacks[madame cj walker] ST Phillips Church The present church building designed by Vertner Woodson Tandy, the first African American registered architect in New York, was de
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Architecture- Renaissance Theater

The Renaissance Theatre Building, as it was originally named, opened January 1921. It was built and owned, until 1931, by African Americans. exterior old   NEWSPAPER NOTICES   New York Age, 22 January 1921, p. 6. Chronicling America.   New York Age, 5 February 1921, p. 5. Chronicling America.       New York Age, 19 February 1921, p. 1. Chronicling America.   article source https://www.ny1920.com/1921feb
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Architecture- Sans Souci Palace + Citadelle La Ferriere part 4

CITADEL from a distance       Sans Souci from a distance   Citadel and Sans Souci in relation to each other     Sans Souci up clode     part 3 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/489-architecture-sans-souci-palace-citadelle-la-ferriere-part-3/   part 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/488-architecture-sans-souci-palace-citadelle-la-ferriere-part-2/ part 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/bl
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Architecture- Sans Souci Palace + Citadelle La Ferriere part 3

Sans Souci Palace plans               original tif files https://1drv.ms/f/c/ea9004809c2729bb/Eo7cHj86TtRKlDVRchyc29kBXTjegLplPS32rYRInvMVnQ?e=NLPBif   part 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/488-architecture-sans-souci-palace-citadelle-la-ferriere-part-2/ part 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/474-architecture-sans-souci-palace-citadelle-la-ferriere/  

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