| From: Neil Nelson, Co-founder of NorthParan.com Help us give a new book to 100,000 kids We are embarking on an exciting philanthropic venture—and we need your help. Because of the important work you do on behalf of black children, we want to partner with you on a vital new project that will benefit our young people. In January, we are launching a new website, NorthParan.com, that we hope will become a game-changer for black books and for black children. The North Paran plan is simple: For every book purchased on the site, we will donate a book to a child in need. The site’s slogan is Buy One, Give One. Our goal is to give away 100,000 books to black children during Black History Month in February 2011; we would like you to help us pick children in your community who will receive some of these books. As you well know, in the life of a child there is nothing more powerful than a book. It has the potential to free a child’s mind, to open up a world of possibilities. Incredibly, the mere presence of books in the home can lead to greater academic achievement: researchers have determined that a child who grows up in a home with at least 500 books will attain three more years of education than a student with no books in the home. But for millions of children in the United States and around the world, their access to age- appropriate books is limited or nonexistent. North Paran’s mission is to change that. Neil Nelson, the site’s co-founder, is driven by the memories of his childhood in Jamaica, when his family only had five books in the house that he and his sister had to share. But Neil read those five books over and over, until he had all the words memorized. Now he wants to change this bleak picture for as many children as he can. After starting a vastly successful celebrity news and video site that reached nearly 30 million unique visitors last year, Neil partnered with husband-and-wife authors Nick Chiles and Denene Millner to create NorthParan.com, a cutting-edge site that will publicize black books and nourish black children. Chiles and Millner have written or co-written 19 books between them—Millner is the co-author with Steve Harvey of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man,” which was the top-selling nonfiction book in the country in 2009, and the sequel “Straight Talk, No Chaser,” which has already reached #1 on the New York Times list. Chiles co-authored with gospel legend Kirk Franklin “The Blueprint,” which also was a New York Times bestseller last year. Millner and Chiles are both also award-winning journalists and the parents of three children of their own. We humbly ask that you help us with this important venture by doing the following: Partner with us to identify children in your community who would benefit from a donation of new books. Use email, facebook, twitter, text, blogs, etc to share NorthParan.com and our 100,000 book campaign to as many friends, family and associates as you can. Add a link to NorthParan.com on your organization’s website and any other website that you have access to. Neil Nelson Co-founder, NorthParan.com Neil@northparan.com |
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| Analysis of President Obama's election victory and what it means for all of us. Contributions by Marvin X, Ed Bullins, James Early, Jubilee Shine, Rich Quatrone, Kofi Natambu, Pili Simanga, Langston Hughes, Fernando Suarez del Solar, Jamil Mangan, Union del Barrio, Quincy Jones , Everett Hoagland and new summation of the election by Amiri Baraka, "We Are Already In The Future". Send check or money order to: AB 808 S.10th St. Newark, NJ 07108... Please visit: www.amiribaraka.com for more information. |
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| Brothers & Sisters: The Twenty Dime is quickly coming to a close, but we're all working hard to represent and shine. We are in the last month of the year, and then onward and upwards to the upcoming new year. The new phrase for the coming new year will be to KEEP REPRESENTIN' FOR TWENTY-ELEVEN!!!! Happy holidays, and seasons greetings to you all. May the holidays bring many blessings your way, no matter your spiritual faith. And now for the updated list for the Schedule of Events: Local Author Expo December 4, 2010 Birmingham, AL http://friends.bplonline.org/ Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities January 23-31, 2011 Eatonville, FL www.zorafestival.com Texas Literary Bowl February 5, 2011 Fort Worth, TX www.texaslit.com National Black Writers Conference February 24-27, 2011 Brooklyn, NY www.nationalblackwritersconf erence.org 14th Annual Black Herstory Conference March 26, 2011 Atlanta, GA www.blackherstory.org If you have any additional events that you would like us to add, please send us an email, and we will send out an updated Schedule of Events. We are continuing forward with our plans to hold the Literary Arts Expo in late 2011. In the meantime, feel free to continue to visit the Fan Page on Facebook. This is more than just a one-time event...WE ARE A MOVEMENT!!!!! Kevin Sabio "Knowledge As Supreme" Universal Africana Literary Arts Movement & Expo |
| Introducing a powerful thought provoking book – "Nigger For Life", by Neal Hall, M. D., Poet. The book’s gut wrenching clarity provides a candid, no place to hide, landscape for honest accounting and dialog on race, racism, equality and freedom. Cornel West, Ph.D., (Princeton University) said of Dr. Hall and his book: “ Dr. Hall is a warrior of the spirit, a warrior of the mind, an activist, a poet … his poetry has the capacity to change ordinary people’s philosophy on social and racial issues ”. http://blackbirdpressnews.blogspot. com/2011/01/dr-nigger-on-streets-of-oakland.html To learn more about Dr. Hall and Nigger For Life, we invite you to visit: www.SurgeonPoet.com |
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