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Moving on the Wires: Black Weblog Awards
Nominate my blog for a Black Weblog Award. Some suggested nominations: Best Blog Post Series Best New Blog Best Writing in a Blog Thank you! Filed under: Moving on the Wires, My work Tagged: Black...
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Moving on the Wires: Black Weblog Awards, Andy Allo, P.OS., Tunde Olaniran…
*Voting for semifinalists begins today for the Black Weblog Awards and ends October 1. Please vote for my blog in the Best New Blog category here! *Update: On November 20th, Andy Allo will be releasing...
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Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: My Poetry
For Black Poetry Day, I will celebrate by doing the first post of my own poetry. Here is a poem I wrote for my friend who has to deal with the deaths of a a friend and a family member this year: Turn,...
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Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: My Poetry 2
I wrote this poem a few weeks ago, but after I read Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray yesterday, I revised it: In my detached, Disordered room Stands two mirrors On a brown wooden Dresser –...
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Moving On the Wires: Logo Submissions
*Hey everyone! I just want to let you know that if you enjoy my blog and want to see it continue, please consider supporting it by donating at the side (–>). Any amount is welcomed. Thanks! * I was...
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Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: My Poetry 3
The Sound From Silence Its cry shouts out as if birthed, like the breaking of light from darkness, demanding to be heard, the universe, in search of itself, singing us into existence Vibrations...
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Moving on the Wires: Giveaway Winner and Invisible Man Paper
*The winner of the Sankofa Journal is bigfatjamaicanwedding. Email me at svfreebrid87@gmail.com your address and I will send it to you by the end of next week. Thanks to you and everyone who enters or...
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Versatile Blogger Award — Thanks!
Another blogger award nomination! Yay me! Thanks Jane for nominating me; I feel so appreciated. Thank you all my supporters and friends! The Award comes with the following CONDITIONS Once you’ve...
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THE NEXT BEST THING Blog Hop…Hoping to Be
The Next Big Thing Hop: the traveling blog that asks authors who they consider the NEXT BIG THING, and then has them pass along the questions for those authors to answer in their blogs. Thank you...
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Moving on the Wires: The Liberator Magazine, El Anatsui, Anti-Robot Radio,...
*The Liberator Magazine released their latest issue, “The Last Generation of Black People.” My essay, “The Percussive Approach,” is one of the writings featured. Buy a copy here. *Accra dot Alt...
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Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: My Poetry 4
This is the last day of National Poetry Month and I wanted to share a couple of the poems I wrote for the NaPoWriMo challenge this month: Prosthetic Conscience We are the abominations: _ And like a...
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Moving on the Wires: 2 Years+Break, RebelMatic, Deluge Trailer, Meridian,...
*Today is my the anniversary of the day I started this blog, which was two years ago, and I am going to take a small break (maybe a week or two) to celebrate. Running this blog by myself can be tiring...
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Blogging While Brown Entry
Program interruption: This is my entry for Blogging While Brown scholarship. My blog, Futuristically Ancient, has been running for a little over two years. I started blogging a couple of years before...
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Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth: Poem in Process –“A Mad Man with a Box”
Last week, I received some inspiration to write a new poem. I was watching an episode of Mysteries at the Museum and saw I segment on Henry “Box” Brown, the enslaved man who mailed himself to freedom....
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New Year’s Treat: I Am Singing the Ishmael Reed Blues
I am nervously posting these since I have not recorded and posted myself singing anything for a few years now. But I was reading Ishmael Reed’s (author of Mumbo Jumbo) collection of all his poetry and...
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Moving on the Wires: My New Logo and Interview with Artist Estella Yu
Today, I am presenting my second surprise — my new logo for my blog! My friend from high school, Estella Yu, designed it for me. I love it and as I told her, it’s like my own bat signal. Another thing...
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The My-Stery: The Legba Circuit in Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’
Two of my favorites quotations from Invisible Man: “Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy” and “The old is ever new.” Today is...
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Blogging While Brown Changemakers: “God Is Change”– The Meaning Behind...
The quotation above is from Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Here is a portion of the chant of the religion Earthseed in the novel: Why is the universe? To shape God. Why is God? To shape the...
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The My-Stery: Top Reasons I Want to Go to Blogging While Brown
Brief break from regular programming: Last year, I went to Blogging While Brown conference and I learned a lot. In fact, I am still learning a lot from the conference, following their facebook and...
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Moving on the Wires: Fundraiser for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause...
Futuristically Ancient for Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge “I recently decided to participate in a fundraiser for “Atlantic Impact’s Abroad for a Cause Challenge” who is inviting two...
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