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Los
Angeles, CA. – Ron and Richard Harris host
T’Keyah for a book signing at the
Lucy Florence Cultural Center, 3351 W.
43rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90008 on Saturday,
December 24, 2005 from 1-3PM,
323-293-1356. Choose from a wealth of culturally enriching
holiday gifts including signed copies of T'Keyah books Natural
Woman / Natural Hair and Some
of My Best Friends.>>>more
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In
Black World Goes to Press |
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Shop
for new In Black World… We Learn the Truth
products at http://www.cafepress.com/inblackworld.
The name In Black World comes from T'Keyah's solo performance
piece of the same name wherein the main character, Cryssy,
a little girl of seven, envisions a culturally corrected
world where black people are safe, self governed, prosperous
and self-respecting. Products currently
available on Café Press are a 2006 calendar, a tote
bag (shown) a journal (shown) and postal pal stickers. Stay
tuned for more! >>>more
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| Mother
Hale Learning Center to Open Soon |
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| Harlem,
NY – Hale House Center, Inc. will
soon celebrate the long awaited opening of the Mother
Hale Learning Center, 300 Manhattan Avenue. The
city has given a provisional license for three of the center’s
four class rooms and is expected to license the remaining
room shortly. The Mother Hale Learning Center (MHLC)
will provide a curriculum of physical, cognitive, social
and emotional development for as many as 38 children, ages
six weeks to four years. For more information call Emily
Maldonado, Director of MHLC at (212) 665-2834.
>>>more
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Bookshelf |
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Saint
in the Land of Lincoln: The Urban Development of
a Pentecostal Denomination and the Birth of the Gospel Music
Industry by Elder
Mack C. Mason, is a careful examination of the
Chicago COGIC gospel music scene written with fondness,
due diligence and respect. Elder Mason chronicles the growth
of gospel music in Chicago's Pentecostal churches and the
singers and musicians who infused it... With the rate of
incarceration of African American males at an epidmic high,
Loyalty Beyond The Bars: We Are Products Of
Our Past, But We Don't Have To Be Prisoner's Of It by
Elizabeth Calhoun is more than a stand-by-your-man
story.>>>more
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To
all of the wonderful stores, centers, salons and schools
that carry my books, Natural Woman/Natural Hair and
Some of My Best Friends, and to all of the patrons
that have purchased them: Thank you! |
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Kudos |
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To:
All of the people and organizations helping the survivors
of Hurricane Katrina, including Hale House,
who sent excess diapers, formula, juice and ointments to
babies in need… Ali LeRoi, Chris Rock
and the cast and crew of UPN’s phenomenal, Golden
Globe nominated, Everybody Hates Chris… Kenny
Leon’s Broadway bound production of August
Wilson’s Radio Golf starring Denise
Burse, Rocky Carroll, Anthony Chisholm, John Earl Jelks
and James A. Williams… Julianna Richardson
on the 1st Annual Meet The HistoryMakers:
A Day of Education whose
participants included Louis Gossett, Jr., Lorraine
Toussaint, and Aki Aleong…
Shonda Rhimes on her amazing and dynamic
Grey’s Anatomy and its stellar
cast featuring Chandra Wilson, Isaiah
Washington and Sandra Oh…. >>>more |
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T'Keyah's
Two Cents |
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A
lot of people I love died this year. Some I knew well. Some
not so well. Some I never met. Some died after brave struggles
with long illnesses; some without warning, and at least
one carefully and by choice. When someone I love dies I
get on the phone. I call other people who loved them to
share my grief and offer my comfort. I call other people
I love to let them know I love them… When some I love
dies, I have a good cry. I cry for them just in case they
didn’t get around to doing or saying something important.
I cry for me because I will miss them, or because I’m
not sure they knew I would…>>>more |
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VinSense
By Vincent Walker
vincentewalker@aol.com |
I proudly present a new page to The Crystal News contributed
by my brother, photographer / philosopher / writer / warrior
Vincent Walker. It’s about having a sense of style,
of humor, of self; a sort of… VinSense.
>>>more
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The
Crystal News respectfully acknowledges the life and transition
of Fanny Ellison,Berry “Rock” Hodge, |
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John
H. Johnson, Andrea Latham, Ernest Lee, Rosa Parks, Brock
Peters, Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell, Zara Buggs Taylor,
and August Wilson. We are blessed to have
known their warm hearts, bright smiles and good works. We
are inspired to follow their brave and noble examples.
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