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I have not been following this story, perhaps because I’ve never watched Joy’s show. I don’t have anything against Joy from what I hear she’s quite the journalist and 24 years is a great run hosting a TV program I attended a book event yesterday featuring Will Packer. He brought along a couple of ex athletes and sports pundit Steven A. Smith. Interestingly, Smith said that Joy Reid’s show was canceled because we didn’t support her by tuning in the way we did during the Obama administration. He said they are all responsible for maintaining viewership.

I first learned about Diana Krall when she appeared on Sesame Street many years ago. I remember Patrice Rushen from back in the day she was a prodigy if I recall. That was where my junior high school graduation was held. I only went there one other time. I walked around in there last year for the first time in almost 50 years. It hasn’t changed. 🙂

Have ya listened to any rap lyrics lately LOL! Word! BTW Anyone bother to read Melania's memoir, or hear anything about it? Playing the long game... Well, as with most things, it depends. There are some activities a typical woman is physically incapable of and/or completely unwilling to do. 🫣

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@Milton, If you don't already know. In addition to adding info about you book here, you should also complete the form @richardmurray shared. You can complete the form even before your book has been published. I usually add books to the site that you and other authors, who already have a presence on AALBC. I can do this based upon the information shared here or on the linked website. However, there wasn't enough information about the book here or your website, to allow me to add it to our online store. Minimally I would need an ISBN. Also, what is the format of you book? Is it an eBook? Even if it something that you are only selling from your site, I simply send readers to your site 🙂

Hi @Tales from Zeal Didn't the pro in the industry provide guidance in this area? You are asking people who don't know you or you or, more importantly, your work to introduce you to an author who will read and endorse your book. There is a slim chance of that happening as a result of you inquiry. You should attend book fairs and conferences and get to know other authors. These are the people most likely to endorse and read your work. What you should do here is post information about yourself and your upcoming novel. Share a video describing the book and keep us appraised of your progress. As with any community develop a relationship with folks. Here is a good example of a writer, Milton J. Davis who always posts information about his new books. Now if he ever asked for an endorsement (he hasn't yet) I would certainly consider it. I hope that helps.

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OK got it @ProfD! Good thing I did start going around saying Prof D said, Neely Fuller Jr. said, "Ask a woman how it is to have sex with her." See how stuff starts.... 🙂 Reminds me of that old parable where a man says to a woman, "Would you have sex with me for 10 million dollars?" She says, "Sure!" He counters, "How about I give you $50?" Incredulous, she replies, "Hell no! Do you think I am a prostitute?!" Calmly he says, "Well we've already ascertained that. Now we are just negotiating the price."

It’s not that I’m being too literal. I just wanted know what the brother said in its entirety around this statement. For example, what you wrote here is different than what you initially wrote so I’m not confident what Neely Fuller said on the subject based upon what you’ve written thus far. Which is why I wanted to go to the source, if possible. If I encountered a woman I wanted to bed, I wouldn’t ask her how much unless she was a professional. Shoot, one might be able to get it for the price of a couple of drinks, without posing such a provocative question. i’m not saying that approach would never work I just can’t imagine a scenario in which Neely Fuller would recommend it.

Ok it is gonna take me a minute to digest all of this... but Wow!

I don't think Alicia fits into the Jazz category either. Indeed, I have trouble grouping her in with the other three, but that could be my age talking 😉 I voted in the negative, as it is pretty obvious given the females who get the awards and attention, Bey, Doechii, Mehgan, Minjaz, Syza, (pardon any spelling mistakes). A Black man can gain notoriety and acclaim more easily than a sister... I'm not sure why perhaps a smooth brother on the keys appeals to more white people (which is necessary for any real recognition). Speaking of the Brothers on keyboardists. I recently heard a podcast on Stevie Wonder which reminded me of the 4.5 year stretch in which Stevie released 5 GREAT albums. What I failed to realize was that all of these albums were released before Stevie was 27! Music of My Mind — March 3, 1972 Talking Book — October 28, 1972 Innervisions — August 3, 1973 Fulfillingness’ First Finale — July 22, 1974 Songs in the Key of Life — September 28, 1976 I guess a streak like that over a career is impossible... but that was certainly and prodigious and perhaps an unparalleled run.

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The idea that you can use bitch and hoe in a pop tone still boggles my mind. Jerry Butler a vestige of a bygone era. RIP

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I hear the joint chief are now all cis gendered white men

Right, I meant post reconstruction leading into an including the civil rights era. @Pioneer1 tread @frankster’s last post with your thinking cap on.

I would really like to hear this advice in context if you can share a link to a video that would be cool thanks.

Indeed, the fact that they resigned under these conditions will actually make them more marketable for having such a high-level of integrity. I don’t buy into the whole idea that this is just about Eric‘s race. If he had not misbehaved, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

CRAZY!!!

This is at once sad, crazy, and scary. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture (Sexual Cultures Book 34) 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,391) 4.2 on Goodreads Best Seller in Gay Studies Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith’s slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.

No there are many factors that contribute to poverty. However, the businesses I described make it harder to escape poverty creating cycles of generational poverty. You don't own it then. Paid off homes can be lost to failure to pay taxes or HOA fees. In Florida if you don't pay your taxes for three years they will throw your butt out of the home you "own." Again this is victim blaming. I wonder @Pioneer1 during the century of reconstruction do you blame the Black people, who were impoverished for making "poor" decisions? Yes or No?

I believe DEI is a relatively new term. Well, I spend a couple of decades working a several fortunate 100 companies. Most of the places would not hire Black people unless they were absolutely brillant, culturally white, or forced to do so. My first Job out of college was with a GE (at the time the multinational conglomerate was a household name). I'm sure I was hired because government contractors were forced to hire a certain number of Black people in order to get government contracts. The fight against DEI is not just about DEI. They are not just firing people, they are destroying records, a high-tech book burning. This is serious business...

Well, I thought it was a good question. Years ago, I dyed my goatee, but I'm too lazy/cheap to keep it up. I wear a goatee, because every woman I've asked said they prefer me with one. Sometimes the comment was unsolicited. I was clean shaven for years including my head prior to that. I have no idea what the color of the hair on my head is or what the hair line looks like. I'm sure if I grew it in it would age me by two decades 🙂

Al Sharpton, said Trump could just pardon him, but he won't because they need Eric as Mayor and their leash. He will not resign. The people resigning are not playing one guys said only a coward or a fool would actually drop the charges. Despite the headlines to the contrary the charges have not been officially dropped. Everyone asked to do it has resigned. What a soap opera!

I always thought DEI initiatives benefited everyone except CIS gendered white men.— the group who pushed back the most against it. Now based upon feedback from others, Black people are being hurt disproportionately by the removal of DEI initiatives. Filed under “ain’t that a bitch!”