Aberjhani's Blog: Notes of a 21st Century Digital Scribe - Posts Tagged "blogs"

With the world still becoming accustomed to the election of the United States' first African-American president, Black History Month 2009 is already guaranteed to down in history like none other. Below are links to works on African Americans both famous and not-so-famous, though every bit as significant. The first is a poetic tribute to my Grandmother, who made history just by living her life. The second is a review of collected nonfiction by the great Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison; the third an inaugural poem dedicated to President Obama; and the fourth a review of poetry by the Inauguration Day poet Elizabeth Alexander. I hope you enjoy them all.


Photographed Light of My Grandmother’s Soul url:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewp...

Review of Toni Morrison's WHAT MOVES AT THE MARGIN url:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewa...

There upon a Bough of Hope and Audacity url: http://www.authorsden.com/categories/...

Review of Poetry by Elizabeth Alexander url: http://authorsden.com/visit/viewartic...

Following Michael Jackson's death in 2009, I wrote a series of blogs and articles to which thousands of websites--and more like two million where one article was concerned-- linked or simply "picked up" to add quality content to themed pages studded with ads. Most of the time, I was happy to see this because I knew how personally many of Jackson's fans experienced the loss. I felt (and ...

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Just before I logged on to check my email and found a request from Red Room asking authors to blog about leadership, something interesting happened. I came across a scrap of paper I did not recognize and on which the following quote was typed: "The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure, ...

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