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  • BOOK REVIEW- Soil Sisters Magical Garden Adventure: Savoring the Soul of Mother Earth from Bobbi J Simmons , Thomas Simmons

    Title: Soil Sisters Magical Garden Adventure: Savoring the Soul of Mother Earth Authors: Bobbi J Simmons , Thomas Simmons @Jean2021 Illustrator: Blakely Frederick Reading Age range:  Publisher: BlackGold Publishing (May 1, 2023) Paperback: 39 pages ISBN-10: 1953130267 ISBN-13: 978-1953130266 REFERRAL IN AALBC https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/10407-book-reviews

  • Gwendolyn brooks wins the Pulitzer prize May 1st 1955

    Gwendolyn brooks wins the Pulitzer prize 1955 the first black person of african descent in the united states of america to win the pulitzer. It was for the book Annie Allen [ https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.281; https://chicagoliteraryarchive.org/2021/01/28/annie-allen-by-gwendolyn-brooks-1949/]  This is gwendolyn brooks reading "Kitchenette Building"  

  • WATN: Alexander Johnson - Glory

    WATN: Alexander Johnson - Glory Use your writing skills to expand on this legendary drummer's story. Prizes exist for the winners. from @hddeviant in @crliterature https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Alexander-Johnson-Glory-1289525484 #wherearetheynow #watn #alexander #johnson #alexanderjohnson #glory #crliterature #oldmanjohnson #richardmurray #hddeviant #richardmurrayhumblr #aalbc

  • #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #3

    #BlackHistory337 2026-2027 #3 The front page of the first story of Kassa has arrived, It is a coloring page, share it to children if you wish. Blackhistory337 is for the days in between Black History Months, when Black history still goes on. from @hddeviant in @crliterature https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337-2026-2027-3-1326770626 #blackhistory337 #blackhistory #kassa #co

  • May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSE

    May 2026 Contest: MOTHER GOOSE Two challenges for illustrators. A lineart and a coloring challenge. The lineart is to make a mother goose, referring to a tale. The coloring is to take one of the lineart challenge entries and color it. Prizes for the winners. from @hddeviant in @color-me-club https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/May-2026-Contest-MOTHER-GOOSE-1289531986 #mothergoose #linear

  • Mother Goose with a hooded Gosling

    Mother Goose with a hooded Gosling Can you tell the specific mother goose tale from the image? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Mother-Goose-with-a-hooded-gosling-1327120224 #mothergoose #lineart #coloring #colormeclub #littleredridinghood #gosling #richardmurray #hddeviant #richardmurrayhumblr #aalbc #rmaalbc #kobo #kwl #deviantart #tumblr Mother Goose Color-Me-Club May challenge Colori

  • Legends of Akorade

    Legends of Akorade At temple, in battlefields, in sporting arenas, Akorade is a cecaelian metalmermay whose legends dwarf any you know. Do you want to see more legends of her? https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Legends-of-Akorade-1327118010 #badge #colormeclub #mermay #akorade #lineart #coloring #may #cecaelian #warriorwoman #richardmurray #hddeviant #richardmurrayhumblr #aalbc #rmaalbc #kob

  • Earn the color-me-club May 2026 Profile Badge!

    Earn the color-me-club May 2026 Profile Badge! It is may so the theme for the community relation groups in deviantart is Mermay. Take part of the fun by making mermay lineart. from @hddeviant in @color-me-club https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earn-the-color-me-club-May-2026-Profile-Badge-1326962377 #badge #colormeclub #mermay #akorade #lineart #coloring #may #cecaelian #warriorwoman

  • CENTO Series episode 102

    CENTO Series episode 102   The anticipation of a story untold, like coffee tingled my senses, lingered on you https://www.deviantart.com/0l-fox-l0/art/The-Barista-1034213660   Boucaner le marasme, pour un jour, une vie Brûler dans le poêlon de l’indifférence Dont tous prétendent fièrement personnifier Être mort-vivant ou vivant-mort Roast the doldrums, for

  • James Brown born 1933

    James Brown born 1933   Please please please from the album please please please by james brown and the furious flames   The first album cover for please please please, look at it, you wouldn't think this has anything to do with james brown. Lyrics Please, please, please, please (Please, please don't go) Please, please, please (Please, please don't g

  • Red Rum born 1965 

    Red Rum born 1965 irish legend, love Red Rum, my second favorite horse behind aristides. Aintree legend  streetart   1973 won   1974 won   1975 second won by L'escargot   1976 second won by Rag Trade   1977 won https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Rum

  • Tree Measure + Mermay + Mother Goose stamp

    Tree Measure https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tree-Measuring-Stamp-1329709266 for challenge https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earth-Day-Challenge-Measure-a-Tree-1321823849 the example https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Simple-Inclinometer-02-1321480452 <span>EMBED CODE</span><br><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Tree-Measuring-Stamp-132

  • Book Review: A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel 05/06/2025

    Book Review: A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel by Rosey Lee List Price: $17.00 WaterBrook Press (May 13, 2025) Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages ISBN: 9780593445518 Imprint: WaterBrook Press Publisher: Penguin Random House Parent Company: Bertelsmann Book Reviewed by Richard Murray  Book Review Text Edited by Microsoft Copilot Review URL  [ https://aalbc.com/book_review/9

  • The Weekly Anglo African to Pine and Palm excerpts and Part 1 of Blake from Martin Delaney

    The Weekly Anglo African to Pine and Palm excerpts and Part 1 of Blake from Martin Delaney born 1812 excerpts from the 1800s black newspaper and a part of the 1800s black fictional novel, serialized through the paper, all is explained in the post. https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/494-weekly- anglo-african-and- the-pine-and-palm -excerpts-from-1861–1862blake-or-the-huts-of-america-a-tale-

  • Come Now Blackfish 05/08/2025

    https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/782947006872174592/come-now-blackfish-by-richard-murray referral https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/782947006872174592/come-now-blackfish-by-richard-murray   IN AMENDMENT Viola Davis on Juilliard site https://talkeasypod.com/viola/ Video Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuHydabht-w Video View Tr

  • Chili Skype Goodbye

    Chili Skype Goodbye 05/08/2025 https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/782953489759404032/chili-skype-goodbye-chili-is-from Referral https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/782953489759404032/chili-skype-goodbye-chili-is-from?source=share Black Artist of Tumblr post https://www.tumblr.com/communities/black-artist-on-tjambler/post/782953486245576704/chili-skype-goodbye-c

  • Mermaid trio 05/08/2025

    Mermaid trio 05/08/2025 https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/782957995293376512/concurrently-from-aquasonic       Referral https://www.tumblr.com/richardmurrayhumblr/782957995293376512/concurrently-from-aquasonic?source=share   mermaid [ seahorse style] for deviantart color me club  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/mermaid-hippocamp-style-119

  • CENTO Series episode 103

    CENTO Series episode 103   Spider-Cat, Spider-Cat, Does whatever a kitty can Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like mice Look Out! Here comes the Spider-Cat Is he strong? Listen bud, He's got radioactive blood. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead Hey, there There goes the Spider-Cat. In the chill of night At the scene of a crime

  • Mother's Day - Good News Calendar

    Story 1 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=897   Story 2 https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=899     STORY 1 It is so warm mommy, stay there, don’t move around, I need to get my sauna time in. But I will be hun

  • SKIN OF GLASS - the Pele de Vidro in Sao Paulo Brasil 05/11/2025

    SKIN OF GLASS - the Pele de Vidro in Sao Paulo Brasil U.R.L. https://www.pbs.org/video/skin-of-glass-3uc64q/ VIDEO FULL VIDEO VIDEO EXCERPT   TRANSCRIPT FULL MOVIE ♪ [Water bubbling] ♪ ♪ [Denise Zmekhol speaking Portuguese] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [Wind blowing] Zmekhol: I left Brazil for a new life in California... with only memories of my father-- the bitter a

  • Tombs of Amun 05/11/2025

    Tombs of Amun URL https://www.pbs.org/video/egypts-tombs-of-amun-uggfz5/ VIDEO    TRANSCRIPT ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ NARRATOR: In Egypt, a team of archaeologists has made an extraordinary discovery. ZAHI HAWASS: I never thought that anything like this would be discovered. NARRATOR: A cemetery hidden for millennia. AFIFI ROHIM: We can see the burial chamber. NARRATOR: No one knew

  • Secrets of the Dead Egypts Darkest Hour 05/11/2025

    Secrets of the Dead Egypts Darkest Hour As I have always said, the Nilotic word, is connected. For me the idea that Kemet/Nubia/Aksum are disconnected is untrue, like Scotland/Ireland/England while each is separate they have been intermingled from ancient times, they are Nilotic, and based on Narmer it is clear that the boundary between  Kemet side Nubia  is like the historic boundary between us

  • KWL Live Q&A – Planning Your Books and Setting your Goals with Sarra Cannon 05/11/2025

    KWL Live Q&A – Planning Your Books and Setting your Goals with Sarra Cannon [ youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/@HeartBreathings ; B6 notebook : https://heartbreathings.com/my-new-b6-stalogy-writing-notebook/ ; ] URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkpvGXVpAF0 VIDEO   THOUGHTS AS I VIEWED 00:01:00 the winds in nyc, between skyscrapers, feels colder than

  • Black Death from Lucy Worsley 05/12/2025

    Black Death from Lucy Worsley https://www.pbs.org/video/the-black-death-nr73de/ VIDEO- FULL TRANSCRIPT- FULL VIDEO ♪♪ -In 1348, the Black Death struck the British Isles and spread like wildfire. It's believed to be the most deadly pandemic in history. Before the Black Death, the population of mainland Britain was around 6 million. Two years later, only an estimated 3 m

  • Sunset Children Stories 05/13/2013

    Sunset Children Stories 05/13/2013   Sunset Children Stories Modern versions of Tales from Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe or ancient Humanity by Richard Murray Book 1 - Richard Murray Short Story Collection Synopsis A Collection of Modernized Fables and Tales. The Tales are based on Black tales from the Americas, Asia, Africa or Europe. The Fables are based on Ae

  • Book Review: A Gardin Wedding from Rosey Lee

    A Gardin Wedding from Rosey Lee @Rosey Lee A Gardin Wedding May 13, 2025 A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel Book Cover Images image of A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel by Rosey Lee BOOK REVIEW IN AALBC https://aalbc.com/book_review/9780593445518   MY REVIEW   “When we really fell for each other, the rules we were playing by changed.” These wise words

  • The Sword from Shawn Alleyne

    The Sword May 14, 2023 "The Woman in Black stared at the Little Girl as the buildings burnt all around them." A Swordslinger has a chance encounter with a little girl that will change both of their lives forever. Artist and Writer Shawn Alleyne takes us on another ride in his AfroFiction series of worlds. This time we enter a sci-fi Western frontier in a short story of death, discov

  • CBL Juneteenth 05/15/2025

    CBL Juneteenth 05/15/2025  

  • Joan of Arc canonized+ Jumping Frog honoring [the first mark twain tale published] GOOD NEWS CALENDAR

    https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-mothers-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=901     STORY May 18th 2020 For today's blog, after Saturday's poll result honoring Joan of Arc's canonization, I will present fastidiously, the interview from yesterday, the positively incomparable senior rapper Simon Wheeler the third as my guest, and query him

  • CENTO Series episode 104

    CENTO Series episode 104   What about tomorrow? Dear friends from the big crowd, Because today is reality.... https://www.deviantart.com/malintra-shadowmoon/art/Former-Times-1036703080   So let us tend to this garden within, Through the seasons of joy and pain, Some branches bear the weight of sorrow, In the quiet depths, where shadows convene, They dance and sway

  • First Kentucky derby held 1875

    First Kentucky derby held 1875  The Colt's name is Aristides newspaper clipping [ The Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee •  Thu, May 11, 1876 Page 1 ] https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tennessean-aristides-breaks-record-f/148895858/ info https://www.espn.com.sg/sports/horse/news/story?id=5086727 Aristides: The first Derby winner Terry Conway Apr 14, 2010,

  • From Africanfrontdotcom

    From Mel Hopkins In 2004, when social networking sites were still pure at heart, there was the website Africanfrontdotcom  - and one of the pages listed African history dating back to 40,000,000 BCE. My calling is to gather information, and I immediately copied this timeline from the website because of my preference. Now, of course, due to the colonization of many African nations, other cultures

  • BREAKING the DEADLOCK: A Power Play 05/22/2025

    BREAKING the DEADLOCK: A Power Play https://www.pbs.org/video/breaking-the-deadlock-a-power-play-14yofj/ VIDEO   TRANSCRIPT If you don't rein in executive power when it's your guy in office, then we're just on this never-ending cycle. Right now, we have a system that's electing performance artists in the highest levels of government. TIM RYAN: We need leaders with gut

  • The Witch Hunts from Lucy Worsley  05/22/2025

    The Witch Hunts from Lucy Worsley  https://www.pbs.org/video/the-witch-hunts-xkubjt/ VIDEO Preview Link https://www.pbs.org/video/imprisonment-agnes-gzj5ww/ TRANSCRIPT to full show [ Bird cawing ] -Scotland, 1591. A woman is about to be executed. Her crime? She is a witch. -Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. -She's been interrog

  • Madness of King George from Lucy Worsley  05/22/2025

    Madness of King George from Lucy Worsley  https://www.pbs.org/video/madness-of-king-george-jpamkt/ VIDEO PREVIEW https://www.pbs.org/video/episode-2-preview-madness-king-george-wdz8ar/ TRANSCRIPT full review [ Suspenseful music plays ] -Winter, 1788. The British king, George III, is hallucinating, violent, and abusive. -Out of my sight! ♪♪ -He's losing control -

  • Bloody Mary from Lucy Worsley 05/22/2025

    Bloody Mary from Lucy Worsley  https://www.pbs.org/video/bloody-mary-eldwhl/ VIDEO PREVIEW https://www.pbs.org/video/bloody-mary-her-earliest-portrait-ngd8gk/ TRANSCRIPT ♪ Lucy Worsley, voice-over: London, the 1st of October, 1553. The next monarch of England is preparing to be crowned. For the first time, the country will be ruled by a woman-- Mary I... [Thunder

  • The Visasiki- Free version 05/23/2017

    The Visasiki- Free version 05/23/2017   The Visasiki- Free version Listen to one work from The Visasiki complete by Richard Murray Narrated by Richard Murray Audiobook 1 - Visasiki Series Synopsis This audio book is free for you to get a taste to the content in The Visasiki; it include one story ,enjoy. book page https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/t

  • CENTO Series episode 105

    CENTO Series episode 105 I didn’t ask to feel this. Leave when I am sick like this, These aren’t my ears, Cuts aren’t the blades I wish to please. Lock the door and take the keys. https://www.deviantart.com/thefulkrum/art/Midnight-Lily-108505689   I’ll awake from my dream now, to make it all come true Dear. The dreams haven’t reached you yet, wrapped you in the

  • Sunshine and Sandy successful Kickstarter 05/28/2020

    Sunshine and Sandy successful Kickstarter 05/28/2020   Moon Ferguson    Sunshine & Sandy: A Short Documentary Two women, uprooted from the lives they built in America, share an unbreakable bond of love, loss, and life.   EXCERPT FROM THE KICKSTARTER   Sunshine and Sandy are both portly, God-fearing, silver-haired grandmothers—two surprising faces of

  • Memorial Day - GOOD NEWS CALENDAR

    Memorial Day <last monday of may originally may 30th, originally called decoration day> - create writing or art that involve the the death of Black soldiers who died serving on the battlefield for the us military or others. I ask a query? https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/261-aphelion-day-art-or-text-craft-parade-good-news-blog/?do=findComment&comment=914     PROSE   W

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Random Thug birthday

    Rand CHaffin   art he made for his birthday https://www.deviantart.com/randomthug/art/The-Birthday-Project-46-1047628166

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