Troy Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 http://huria.org/?q=YOURSEARCH With Huria Search you can quickly search 50+ Black owned magazines, 100+ Black owned newspapers, 100+ Black owned booksellers And did I say there were no advertisements? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynique Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Explain Huria's name and logo to me. I don't get it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Posted September 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 Good question. Given that every English language word, including misspellings, and most meaningful 2 or 3 word phases have been "dotcomed" mostly by entities registering names purely for the sake of hoping someone will pay for them. Picking a decent URL for a website is not easy. As a result, when looking for a meaningful domain name for the website, whose original goal was to help visitors discover the global Black world wide web, I decided to look at Swahili words. I began looking for words which represented what the my new site would represent. I thought about independence and the self-reliance the websites I catalogued would need and I found the work Huria which is defined as: huria1 noun freedom, liberty, independence huria2 adjective free, independent, self-sufficient, autonomous huria3 adverb freely, liberally, openly, without restraint Huria definition source: African Languages.com Now the logo is another story: my buddy, who came up with the logo thought the rooster fit. Seems odd he would do that but I liked it and figured I could back into a meaning for it. I have two; (1) The Rooster represents a wakeup call for our, in my opinion, slumbering people; (2) The cock's head could be that of Abraxas but without knowing very much about the obscure Gnostic symbol I figure I stick with the wakeup call reference ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynique Posted September 7, 2013 Report Share Posted September 7, 2013 Thank you for the etymological explanation, Troy. Verrrry interesting name selection, and certainly an apt choice. I suspected that the rooster might have something to do with being a wake-up call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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