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The Reader's Zone
1. Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza's
Some Sing, Some Cry
2. Kadir Nelson’s Heart and Soul
3. Tayari Jones' Silver Sparrow
4. Isabel Wilkerson's Warmth of Other Suns
5. Kwei Quartey's Children of the Street
6. Anthony Grooms' Bombingham
7. Leonard Pitts Jr's Freeman
8. Calvin Ramsey’s Ruth and the Green Book
9. Akosua Busia's The Seasons of Beento Blackbird
10.Daniel Black'sTwelve Gates to the City
The Writer's Zone
Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson-They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left. (pg 15)--Warmth of Other Suns. Reading like a great novel, this epic work of history chronicles America’s Great Migration, focusing particularly, but not exclusively on the lives of three participants who migrated from three different areas of the South to three different Northern cities in three different decades: Ida Mae Gladney in 1937, who left Mississippi for Chicago; George Starling in 1945, who left Florida for Harlem; Robert Foster in 1953, who left Louisiana. Yet there are so many other captivating stories. What is most important about this volume is that it inspires readers to ask our elders to speak of our families’ stories: the whys, the hows, the whens, and the wheres of their leavings. What did they leave behind? What did they take with them? What did they face upon arrival in those northern or western cities? When and why did they return to land of their birth; did they return only to visit or to stay? So many stories, so many stories that we, their descendants need to hear. How ingenious!
TheListener's Zone
The Voices of Distinction was founded in August 1997. Most of the members are active duty or retired military men who sing during the Gospel Services at Wood Memorial Chapel, Fort Bragg, NC and at functions and venues up and down the eastern states. In May 2007, The Voices of Distinction were awarded the Coin of Excellence, presented by the Chief Chaplain of the United States Army,at Fort Bragg during a concert in honor of his retirement; in December 2008, the Shirley Caesar Music Outreach Award, sponsored by 103.9 FM, Raleigh, North Carolina. At last, the debut CD, What You Gonna Do With Me? Is available at www.CDBaby.com The men, including Pop Fletcher Reid, acknowledge God as He directs their path.
A LOVER OF LYRICAL BEAUTY
I am a lover of lyrical beauty and a believer in a life full of love
I wonder why people don't appreciate the power of the pen
I hear poetry in the prose and music in the words of hundreds of authors
I see words and phrases that describe my world and other worlds
I am a lover of lyrical beauty and a believer in a life full of love
I pretend to replace the characters,
especially the heroines in the novels I read
I feel their joy, their sadness, their excitement, their pain
I touch the pages upon pages of wonderful poems and stories
I worry that I have so little time and so much to discover in my world of books
I cry with the heroines in the novels I read
I am a lover of lyrical beauty and a believer in
a life full of love
I understand that everyone does not share my passion for the printed word
I say to them that literature can help one dream a world that should exist
I dream of the day I can express my thoughts and feelings in print
I try desperately to weave tales and make worlds live through my words
I hope to one day leave my letter to the world, my message to posterity
I am a lover of lyrical beauty and a believer in a life full of love ayr
The Viewer's Zone
