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• Miami Artists and Writers SWEAT

  
  
  MDC’s Galleries of Art + Design Presents The SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration
  
  
  Miami, October 23, 2012 - Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Galleries of Art + Design will present The SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration, a project that originated with a small group of South Florida artists and writers, [...]
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• Wordle of Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories:

  
  
  Wordle of my children's e-book Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories: [www.wordle.net]
  
  
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• Reviews of Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories

  
  Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories has been receiving some encouraging reviews from customers, including Andrew Blackman:
  

  
  "This was a charming and well-written children's book, with great illustrations. It integrates a modern-day story about bullying in a Florida school with a traditional Anancy story from the Caribbean.'" [...]

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• Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories on YouTube

  
  
  When a bully threatens little Jimmy Harrison at school, Grandpa Sydney comes to the rescue and reads to him the story of "Anancy, Snake, and Tiger." How does the Anancy story help Jimmy to overcome the bully?  Find out in Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories.
  
  
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• Marcus, they're still dancing on your grave

  
  
  Exonerate Marcus Garvey: [signon.org]
  
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• Jamaican Gentlemen @ The Good Men Project

  
  For a revolutionary generation of young Jamaican men, the strong and available role models looked like the enemy.
  

  I count myself among the fortunate to have known a few people who have been my Morning Stars or heroes: Dennis Scott, friend and mentor; Melvyn Smith, family friend and [...]

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• Grandpa Sydney's Anancy Stories @ Madie Ives Elementary

  
  
  Over the next few days, I’ll be visiting Madie Ives Elementary to read from Grandpa Sydney’s Anancy Stories. I hope the children will fall in love with Jimmy, Grandpa Sydney, and Anancy as much as I have.
  
  The Language Arts/Reading/ESOL teachers have chosen The Trickster [...]
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• Jamaican Hero, American Criminal?

  
  On October 15, 2012, National Heroes Day, the Jamaican government will be holding island-wide ceremonies to honor the heroes who imagined the nation into existence: Nanny of the Maroons, Sam Sharp, Paul Bogle, George William Gordon, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Norman Washington Manley, and Sir Alexander Bustamante. Among the [...]
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• Blog Action Day: Exonerate Marcus Garvey

  
  There's an Ethiopian proverb that states, “When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” That’s how I feel about the petition to exonerate Marcus Garvey, which has drawn me out of my comfortable role as a writer and into the world of activism.
  
  If [...]
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• Poetry Friday: Cynthia James

  Writing Forward
   
  Hold nothing against the daffodil,
  potent against the cancer of self-love and aged forgetfulness;
  but beware the bulb; mistake it not for the onion;
  it can kill; it’s subtext for the Ides of March, but also
  ‘comes before the swallow dares’ [...]
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