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This really belongs in the Black Excellence section, but I know more people will see it here. I've queued this video to start with Walter Mosley's introduction of the Warrior Publisher, Paul Coates. Read the speech here. The video is more than 2 hours long. and includes performances by Jon Baptiste. Also, Percival Everett won the fiction award (I was hoping the police were not gonna bust in there and gun him down 😉)

There is no code. The people who aren't making money online.🤣 For whatever reason, you choose to believe there's a cookie-cutter approach to it. Doesn't work that way. There's no online money-making widget. If it was that easy, many folks would be doing it already. Both in the real world (ITRW) and virtually, making money comes down to producing goods and/or providing services. No way around it.😎

Reminds me of Charlie Brown and Lucy and the football. Every time he tries to kick the ball, she snatches it away and he ends up on his azz. This election, both conservative and liberal Black folks got left holding an empty bag.😎

Yeah Read! Read, read, read! Read what? And WHY? Levar Burton turned up on BlueSky yesterday. One of his posts said, "Fucking Read" He didn't name a single book. The first link is a review of the first two books of The North Africa Trilogy. Those two books have been free in Project Gutenberg for more than a decade. The next two links are to the e-books in PG. The third book did not come out until the 1970s and may not even be in the public domain yet. http://sfgospel.typepad.com/sf_gospel/2008/08/mack-reynolds-on-africa-islam-utopia-and-progress.html Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed nor Birth (1963) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 The thing about science fiction is that it is future oriented. Too much reading is focused on the past. But I think the lesson of the past is who had technology versus who didn't and the people without the technology lost. So what does that say about the future? A curious thing is that 1961 is when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. 50 years later, 2011, is when Gaddafi was overthrown and killed. CIA involvement in the first and NATO involvement in the second. But Obama was in the White House in 2011 and Hillary Caesar crowing "We came. We saw. He Died!" <maniacal laugh> So the North Africa Trilogy has an interesting retro-future backdrop. . 95vus