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February 11, 2019
Monday Writing Strengths!
February 5, 2019
Life-Saving Trick to Save Yourself If You are Choking With No One Around to Help BY Teresa Sutakanat…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
Imagine the agonizing pain your body must feel when it’s being deprived of oxygen. It’s no joking matter.
The obstruction of the airway passage, even partial, can result in asphyxia and death, which is why choking is the fourth most common cause of unintentional injury-related death.
So what should you do if you’re choking?
If one is lucky, there is someone nearby who can perform the Heimlich maneuver.
This first-aid procedure requir...
Marlon James Finds Inspiration…
In “Marlon James Finds Inspiration in Greek Tragedy, Ethiopian redoubts, and The Affair,” Keziah Weir (Vanity Fair) writes about the prize-winning Jamaican author’s inspirational sources, past influences, his work habits, and future literary ventures. Read the full text at Vanity Fair. Here are excerpts from Weir’s interview with James:
Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize–winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, can write almost anywhere. Except, he says, in hi...
February 2, 2019
Colour Me Sweet: To Black Girls with Love
If you live in a country like the United States or Britain, you might be surprised that, in a nation like Jamaica, where at least 90% of us are descended from Africans, anti-Black racism would be an issue.
Here, people bleach their skin because they believe lighter skin is more attractive, and it will increase their chances of finding love. I grew up hearing “Black and ugly” hurled as an insult. And I had a friend who was told by her employer that she had to chemically straighten h...
February 1, 2019
Tips for Understanding Black History Month- 2019 Wakanda Redux Edition
#Unforgettable
It’s that time of year again, Black History Month. And in this year two-thousand and nineteen of our One True King T’Challa, we heading back to Wakanda to celebrate. Black Passport Twitter you’re not invited, because sometimes you can be obnoxious. Sorry, not sorry.
Okay, okay. You guys can come too. Just try not to be obnoxious.
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January 29, 2019
CreateSpace to KDP: The Aftermath – by Jami Gold…
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
For many years, independent and self-published authors often turned to CreateSpace and its print-on-demand capabilities to offer paperback versions of their books. However, late last summer, Amazon announced that CreateSpace was going away and being merged with KDP (Kindle Digital Publishing).
Authors with books in CreateSpace were told to migrate their books over to KDP when prompted. Several blog posts recommended that authors try to move their books as...
COMMENTARY: The Debt We Owe Haitians
Haitian Flag
By Oscar H. Blayton
More than 500 Haitian soldiers (referred to as Les Chasseurs-Volontaires de Saint-Domingue) fought alongside French troops, Oct. 9, 1779, to aid the Americans in trying to force the British out of Savannah, Ga. in order to open its port for the colonists’ use. The attack was unsuccessful, but it has been noted that the Haitians played a significant role in providing cover for the French soldiers who had to retreat from their positions on the b...
A Disaster Strikes Cuba
WHOA! This is crazy!
Massive Subterranean Biosphere That’s Hiding In The Earth’s Crust
A mysterious new ecosystem which is being called the ‘subterranean galapagos’ is almost twice the size of earth’s oceans. No one has never seen anything like it.
Via – SeekerJanuary 27, 2019
Inside the Kingdom of Hayti, ‘the Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere’
An 1811 wood engraving depicts the coronation of King Henry. Fine Art America
Marvel’s blockbuster “Black Panther,” which recently became the first superhero drama to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award, takes place in the secret African Kingdom of Wakanda. The Black Panther, also known as T’Challa, rules over this imaginary empire – a refuge from the colonialists and capitalists who have historically impoverished the real continent of Africa.
But fans of the box-off...
