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Seminar for Women "Recognizing and Overcoming Abuse"
Location: Glory Temple Ministries
January 30, 2010 Seminar "Recognizing and Overcoming Abuse" @ Glory Temple Ministries at 3 p.m. in North Massapequa, N.Y. 11758. Four dynamic Mighty Woman of God will minister and tell their testimony of how they overcame the odds. For further info call Apostle Karen Deadwyler @ 516 882-9833 or email @kaynrony@yahoo.com
Posted by Karen Deadwyler on January 21, 2010 at 8:38pm
A Black People’s Initiative: Unabashed Redemption Song for Would-be Black Educators by Dr. R.A. Shabazz
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
Only the fool is thirsty”
--Bob Marley “Rat Race”
For those who are adherents to African-centered perspectives on reality, and for those who, as Black people, attempt to live by African-centered cultural ideals, there is little confusion about the genocidal state that is debilitating the Black world, including the Black people of African ancestry living in America. Nor are adherents to African-centered perspectives co… Continue
Posted by Marcia L. McNair on January 20, 2010 at 3:00pm
Black Men and White Women - An Epidemic?
I don't know if it's due to the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, or everyone now sees racism in this country as dead and buried; but it seems to be a growing trend to see a "brotha" on the arms of a Caucasian woman these days.
Are they trying to say that a black man being seen with a white woman is an honor of some sort? T… Continue
Posted by Brenda Farrar-Ejemai on December 5, 2009 at 4:30pm
Message to Amanda Knox: Italian Food and Justice or The Black Guy Did Not Do It—You Did!
Posted by Marcia L. McNair on December 5, 2009 at 8:36am — 3 Comments
Sistas On Fire: A Newsical
SOF is an audience interactive musical about social injustice featuring poetry, prose, song and dance.
Creator/Writer Marcia L. McNair isa former assistant editor at Essence Magazine and a professor of English at Nassau Community College. Her poetry is featured in the anthology Songs of Seasoned Women (QuadraSoul Press). Her first novel, E-Males, is available at Barnes and Noble Bookstores.
Writer/Lecturer Anissa D. Moore is Chair of Communications at Nassau Community. Her writing has appeared in Women at the Well: Meditations for Quenching Our Thirst, and she has recently completed mad girl, a collection of personal essays on race, class and gender.
African Griot/Poet Sista Gurl (Gail Haliburton), has performed her work at the African American Museum of Nassau County, Long Island, the Harlem Book Fair on Long Island, churches, libraries and schools. Her poetry is featured in the anthology Songs of Seasoned Women (QuadraSoul Press).
For further information about attending or arranging for a performance, please contact Marcia McNair at (516)301-6019.
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SAPPHIRE SPEAKS AT NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE
March 15, 2010 from 2pm to 3:15pm – Nassau Community College
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IS "PRECIOUS" DESTRUCTIVE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY? WRITER SAYS IT MAKES BLACKS LOOK BAD 3 Replies
THIS IS THE VIEWPOINT OF ANTHONY SMITH AS REPORTED ON THEWRAP.COM: The central themes in black communities across the U.S. and in Harlem are not ones of incest, rape, teenage pregnancy, physical and…
Tagged: American, women, African, Sapphire, PUSH
Started by Marcia L. McNair. Last reply by Marcia L. McNair Jan 3.
Ask Congress to Support the Youth PROMISE Act to Reduce Youth Violenc
or, Start a Petition Change.org
Started by Marcia L. McNair Nov. 14, 2009.
Sistas All Fired Up (BWWA) 5 Replies
Is it a fact that Black Women have bad attitudes? Or, is that a myth that has been carried on, and spread like wild fire from generation to generation? Before you start displaying your alleged BWWA(…
Started by MisterAntagonist.com. Last reply by Black Talk Media Project Oct. 4, 2009.
Why Can't a Real Sista Get Paid? 2 Replies
A troubling development in the media, which has a direct impact on popular culture which ultimately influences social policy, is the appropriation of the black female image by other groups (from whit…
Started by Marcia L. McNair. Last reply by Marcia L. McNair Sep. 6, 2009.
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