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I see nothing wrong with shifting your coverage to be more inclusive. 18 years in and you should be the gold standard for industry news and info. You should be pulling seminars and conferences together that allow this venture to be a financial windfall. I know how important it is to give us a platform, but if we aren't sharing the site and participating in building it maybe it's time to expand. I don't know. I can't talk because I haven't advertised with you in a while. Which is a problem. Because in the past five years I've paid for 20 dollar boost posts and 25 dollar facebook ads. Maybe that's the wave of the future for you: burst packages. You can continue with black books but offer smaller more immediate campaigns for authors. Once again, I don't know. It's frustrating.

That's my question though. How and why did it change? What happened here? Why is it that a city that was run by Whites at a much worse time have less Black violence and crime and a city that is now run by Blacks has more crime and unemployment with more opportunities? That's why I have the biggest problem agreeing to a lot of the ideas of social constructs creating the problem. Memphis is everything Black people want and yet it isn't fulfilling it's potential. Yet three hours away Nashville has a Black owned bookstore, three black colleges of substantial standing in Meharry Medical, Fisk and TSU and an upwordly mobile trajection. However the Black population is much smaller there... In regard to Stax, Justin Timberlake invested a ton of money and now the area has a brand new business district across the street. It is still in a food desert so the shopping isn't that great, but the black college right behind has broken ground on new dorms and there is a Farmer's Market that just got 1.2 Million in funding so a lot of the things are changing. While the bus system isn't much to scream about, you have people in this neighborhood the home of Royal Studios that just created the super hit Uptown Funk, and those people are still walking around unwilling to walk down the street and apply for jobs at the local stores and fast food joints. If I have to answer the question why are people not doing it? I have to say that they simply don't want to, at least here in Memphis that is the case. I will say this, the kids here are learning from their parents and the welfare state is in full effect. Memphis has the highest death of babies in the world! What is happening here is completely absurd. People have to start taking responsibility because honestly Memphis is the land of milk and honey. Coming from California I can see things differently, but where else could I have quit a tenure track job and start selling shoes and make more money? I mean the opportunities because of the cost of property are astounding. If you came here and opened a bookstore and did events with our location to places here in the south AALBC would be one of the biggest companies in the country.

SOME GREAT BLACK HISTORY/WALTER SAMMONS INVENTED THE HOT COMB,HOW MANY BLACK WOMEN ARE AWARE,,BLACK MAN INVENTED THE HOT COMB/RICHARD SPIKES.BLACK PEOPLE NOT AWARE HE INVENTED THE AUTOMATIC CAR WASH.SEE BLACK FOLKS OFTEN AT THE CAR WASH.RICHARD SPIKES ALSO CREATED THE SWINGING BARBER SHOP CHAIR, UN KNOWN BY LOTS OF BROTHERS AT THE BARBER SHOP WHEN THEY SIT DOWN FOR A HAIR CUT, BARBER CHAIR SWINGING INVENTED BY A BLACK INVENTOR/WHEN BLACK PEOPLE BUY AND EAT POTATO CHIPS ,POTATO CHIPS CREATED BY GEORE CRUM////WONDER IF CHILDREN IN SCHOOL ,ALL SCHOOLS ARE TAUGHT ABOUT BLACK INVENTORS INVENTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY.////INVENTIONS BY BLACK INVENTORS USED WORLD WIDE......///