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"The most revolutionary thing Black people can do is come together" and yes Niggers are afraid of revolution. That will be my definition of Nigger: a person who is afraid of Black unity or who, through deliberate action, ignorance, or stupidity acts to impede it--revolution. (same video as the one @CDBurns linked above. Happy Thanksgiving fixing to head over to my Mother-in-law to grub. I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving--here is to revolution!

My Brother! Happy Thanksgiving!

I miss seeing this side of Cynique Now here I thought Unkel was Black. I shared a couple of Unkel Ruckus' fun facts but I doubt any one got what I was trying to do.

Maybe Chicago is just a violent place. The shooting (starting around the 5:20 mark is certainly criminal. They kept pumping him full of lead. Rahm Emanuel should be punished as well for letting this crime go unpunished for so long.

Often they video these lectures if they do I will share it here.

Hey Hickson, you know I sitting here looking at the 50+ links to all those corporate sites and could not help but notice at keast one conspicously absent URL: http://aalbc.it/ghettoheat Show a Brother some love...

Hi Charvella thanks for visiting this site, I visited your website I have major, albeit unsolicited, comment it is too hard to find the link to buy your book. I eventually found the link in your slider for Amazon, but I was taken to Amazon's homepage. Where forcing me to search for the book, and this point all but the most motivated of buyers would have stopped trying. Here is a direct link someone can use to buy your book: http://bit.ly/storiesv2 Also I recommend that you put your books ISBN on the page. This helps booksellers find and order your book.

He does a more extensive reading which I did not take. So I'm hesitant to judge based upon this three minute reading. He would tell someone who shared my birthday the same exact thing, right? @Delano Maybe I can get Lloyd to join us here. It would be interesting to read and conversation with you two.

Actually Chris I tried that, but the in this case the PDF did not retain the formatting and I did not have time to reformat it. Most of the pdf's content my be found on Pamela's (Diane Cooper) web page on the new website. @Wild Ivy Publishing basically what Chris is saying is that it is much better to simply paste the contents of your press release direct into the your message here. People are often skittish about loading attachments because they contain malware (even unintentionally). It is also good for search engine optimization as this site is indexed regularly. Plus it is just easier for visitors saving them the extra step. If you copy and paste from a word document the formatting is preserved quite well. This is typically true for pdf's as too, but for some reason, in the case of your pdf it just pasted the text without line breaks. @CDBurns I still did not mail a November eNewsletter. Is that anything you want to promote as the enewsletter sponsor. I'm going to mail it within a week. I guess I'll call it the December eNewsletter--man I'm swamped.

Coincidentally, I have been exchanging emails with the author this morning. @Kwinine Harper if you have any questions about the Savion Sequence, I'll see if I can get Amari to stick his head in and reply.

Nice to meet you Tiah!

@Kwinine Harper I assume you are already familiar with http://heyjackass.com/ What does gun control laws have to do with gun violence? Fortunately the vast majority of people do not need a gun control law to stop them from shooting someone else.

Diane Cooper was sentenced to 40 Years for crime she didn't commit. Learn about this tragic, but ultimately redemptive and uplifting story in the book which tells her story Dark Justice. I shot this video on this weekend and was already familiar with the book, I thought it was a work of fiction. I did not know it was a true story until I was shooting the video. Basically I about two feet away from The authors whose real name is Pamela, and she say the story if about her. I almost dropped my camera. She was sentenced to 40 years! This was for a crime one might consider a relatively minor offense and with no prior arrests a 40 years sentence (effectively life) is just so extreme. She would have been treated less harshly if she killed someone. Pamela told me about all the things that was taken away from her and that she missed while she was locked up. But she explained to me that she could not give them her mind, they could not take that away from her. That is how she survived.

Hi Tolly, thanks for the feedback. AALBC.com's Website in General If you are interested in information about titles you may have missed I'm developing pages, on the new version of AALBC.com, that will help you discover those books: http://aalbc.org/books/newbooks.php (future versions will allow you to break out books by genre, or you can just search the site). Of course new and popular books can always be discovered on our bestsellers list:http://aalbc.org/books/bestsellers.php The is a page for every book, readers are encouraged to comment on each and every page. AALBC.com will be the "Google of Black Literature." The Discussion Forums in Particular The "vibe" of these discussion forums are driven by the participants. I have never tried to moderate the discussion forum by making them what I, or any other individual, thinks it should be. If I did that the site would be limited by my perspective which would make it far less interesting. If people do not participate the forum dies, if they do the forums will thrive. Tolly if you, or anyone else reading this, have discovered a great book it would be wonderful if you shared that information here. The Broader Web Today we are quickly moving to a place where we do not own the platforms where our cultural expression takes place. As a result, we can not control how our culture is represented; what is praised, uplifted, rewarded and ultimately successful is not under our control. This is particularly true for Black books. We have the power to change this, by simply supporting our own. Amazon's websites and social media are great, but they only care about your money. We can not continue to invest all of our resources into these platforms while neglecting our own. If we have learned anything in the last 10 years, as the Black book ecosystem has ben decimated, is that these humongous corporations do not have our best interests in mind.

Yeah he has been doing this work for as long as I could remember. I met him for the first time this weekend. one of the friendliest, down to earth guys you'd wanna meet. Plus he a really hard worker and a has a great memory. I don't want to bias your professional opinion by letting you know what I think.

I just posed this video unedited as I was anxious to read what Del thought. I'll be editing a more detailed presentation did at the First Reed Expo in Atlanta this weekend.

Constantly on the lookout for ideas more my homepage. I actually like the design of heyjackass.com and see that it is a WordPress theme based on the jquery masonry which I will experiment with. Content Wise heyjackass.com is actually an intriguing website. Unkel Ruckus as far was your comments regarding Cynique's observations, have to admit, I can't wait to read her reply

I think I'll share one of @Unkel Ruckus's "Fun Facts" everyday.

Chris as you mentioned sure the page views help the website. But seriously Unkel Ruckus's makes an important contribution because his sentiments reflect the beliefs of much of America and are not nearly as fringe as some may think. Sure, more politically correct white people may know better than to express these sentiments in public, but their behaviors reflect a cosign. But I'm less concerned with these folks. My concern are Black people who believe this stuff, because they were never taught the truth. Our behavior reflects this belief too. We are all, Blacks, whites and everyone else, are subjected to and fall victim to this same racist rhetoric. The statement about IQ reminds me about of a debate between Dr. Frances Welsing and Dr. William Shockley on Race and IQ. This should be required viewing for all American's. You see the exact same rhetoric was used but Germans against Jews. But today no one question the intelligence of Jewish people, for the narrative has changed. As far a Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Homer, and all the other Greeks Unkel mention anyone with a cursory knowledge of history knows everything the Greek knew was obtained from Black Africans.

I'd finished speaking at an event in Atlanta, GA. I this young, tall, attractive woman stepped up to me and introduced herself as JonRenee. I was like whoa, what a nice surprise, and she even had a gift bag for me! That was such a nice gesture. Thank you so much for stopping by to say hello @JonRenee' you helped make an already good event even better. I have a lot of video from the First Reed Expo here in ATL. I'm meeting a bunch of really interesting writers with fascinating stories. I'll share more of this over the upcoming days.

I was reading the Wall Street Journal yesterday saw an interesting article, "Betting Big on Literary Newcomers." Of particular interest to me were the sisters who garnered seven figure book deals. It looks like the focus on African female novelists will continue. The most fascinating thing is that these humongous advances are going to debut authors. Apparently auctions drive up prices, but this is classic bubble territory as far as I'm concerned. From a business perspective a big advance better come with a big marketing budget as well. As a bookseller, I'm expecting some ad buys for these books. Then again handing out million dollar advances is one way to get free promotion. I'm sure these books must be great reads. It will be interesting to see how well they sell next year. Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi (Random House, Jun 07, 2016) Behold the Dreamers: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue (Knopf, Aug 23, 2016)

Hey man you know you can embed youtube and vimeo videos here just by pasting the URL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SU5Gs3291k) without the brackets Also post your books ISBN13 here and I'll make sure I have all your book titrles on you AALBC.com page: http://aalbc.org/authors/author.php?author_name=D.T.+Pollard right now I only have 5 of your books. I can also use an updated bio. Is you have video for all your books list post your list like this ISBN13/AmazonID-youtube video ID B00SJ9N3BW-8SU5Gs3291k if the book is only an ebook provide the ASIN. The youttube video id is the last part of the youtube ID which I bolded above

Yeah not tracking what is happening with your website as far as search is concerned is like walking around blind. You can do it, but you really won't have any idea what is happening all around you. SEO is FAR more important that social media marketing as the impact of search is far greater than social.

Cynique, I think I'm going to link these posts to your webpage to--and definitely to the homepage. I've been trying not to add anything new to he current site, as it is just something else for me to move. I but I don't have a homepage design for the new site that is presentable yet, so I'll add them to this site's homepage. I've been playing around with the design on author pages. Take a look at your page again and let me know what you think: http://aalbc.org/authors/author.php?author_name=Connie%20Bradley in your case the main change is how I plan to link your content. Of a few articles this is probably find, but for someone with 100's articles like Kam this kind of list is impractical. Regarding the French--a tragedy for sure, but Boko Haram has killed more Nigerians than Isis has killed and show not sign of slowing up. Americans have already forgotten about them. Maybe I'll make one of those translucent images go over my social media avatars, but use the Nigeria flag instead. We'll forget about the French too, as soon as Beyonnce and J-Zay Break up of Catlyn adopts an Ethiopian.

Yeah I have a lot more content but I wanted to get the winners done first. If I made more money the coverage could have been better. It is interesting so little of the Black media seemed interested in this-the Academy Awards of the book world. A Huria Search yields nothing. The problem could be that Google (which drives Huria Search) simply has not indexed the any of the Black media pages yet--which speaks to a completely different problem if a newspaper's website (homepage anyway) is not being indexed by Google on a daily basis--at least. Now that I think about I have not added my test site to my own search engine or Huria Search. I fully expect to see my pages in a Google a search tomorrow.