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Submission Guidelines for "Street Smarts: An Anthology of Urban Survival Strategies"

There’s a New Anthology in the works…
Call for Manuscripts: Street Smarts… The deadline for submissions has been extended to December 31, 2009.

Louis Reyes Rivera and Bruce George, co-editors of the critically acclaimed The Bandana Republic, are now accepting submissions for their latest effort, Street Smarts: An Anthology of Urban Survival Strategies.

Street Smarts is another literary first, this one focusing on the urban working class and the ability to enhance one’s earning power despite of… Continue

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At 3:31pm on October 30, 2009, Marcia L. McNair said…: I CAN'T WAIT TO INTERVIEW YOU TOMORROW! PLEASE ADD IT TO YOUR EVENTS AND TELL ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS!
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At 10:58pm on September 14, 2009, Dj Kenny Mac said…: The Reverend Jesse Jackson almost never gets

upstaged and I had never seen the Reverend

Jesse Louis Jackson cry in public until last month.

Jackson invited Bill Cosby to the annual Rainbow /

PUSH conference for a conversation about the

controversial remarks the entertainer offered on

May 17 at an NAACP dinner in Washington , D.C.

when America 's Jell-O Man shook things up

by arguing that African Americans were betraying

the legacy of civil rights victories. Cosby said

'the lower economic people are not holding up their

end in this deal. These people are not parenting.

They are buying things for their kids. .

$500 sneakers for what? But they won't spend $200

for Hooked on Phonics!'

Bill Cosby came to town and upstaged the reverend

by going on the offense instead of defending his

earlier remarks. Thursday morning, Cosby showed

no signs of repenting as he strode across the stage

at the Sheraton Hotel ballroom before a standing

room only crowd. Sporting a natty gold sports coat

and dark glasses, he proceeded to unload a Laundry

list of black America 's self-imposed ills. The iconic

actor and comedian kidded that he couldn't compete

with the oratory of the Reverend but he preached

circles around Jackson in their nearly hour-long

conversation, delivering brutally frank one-liners

and the toughest of love.

The enemy, he argues, is us: "There is a time,

ladies and gentlemen, when we have to turn

the mirror around." Cosby acknowledged he wasn't

critiquing all blacks. . .. just the 50 percent of African

Americans in the lower economic neighborhood

who drop out of school, and the alarming proportions

of black men in prison and black teenage mothers.

The mostly black crowd seconded him with choruses

of Amens.

To the critics who pose, it's unproductive to air our

dirty laundry in public, he responds,

"Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day."

It's cursing on the way home, on the bus, train,

in the candy store. They are cursing and grabbing

each other and going nowhere. The book bag is very,

very thin because there's nothing in it.

Don't worry about the white man, he added.

I could care less about what white people think

about me. . . Let them talk.

What are they saying that is so different from what

their grandfathers said and did to us?

What is different is what we are doing to ourselves.

For those who say Cosby is just an elitist who's

"got his" but doesn't understand the plight of the

black poor, he reminds us that,

"We're going to turn that mirror around.

It's not just the poor-everybody's guilty."

Cosby and Jackson lamented that in the 50th years

of Brown vs. Board of Education, our failings betray

our legacy. Jackson dabbed away tears as he

recalled the financial struggles at Fisk University ,

a historically black college and Jackson 's Alma mater.

When Cosby was done, the 1,000 people in the room

all jumped to their feet in ovation.

We have shed tears too many times, at too many

watershed moments before, while the hopes they inspired

have fallen by the wayside. Not this time!

Cosby's plea to parents:

"Before you get to the point where you say 'I can't do

nothing with them' , do something with them."

Teach our children to speak English.

There's no such thing as "talking white".

When the teacher calls, show up at the school.

When the idiot box starts spewing profane rap videos;

turn it off. Refrain from cursing around the kids.

Teach our boys that women should be cherished,

not raped and demeaned.

Tell them that education is a prize we won with blood

and tears, not a dishonor.

Stop making excuses for the agents and abettors

of black on black crime.

It costs us nothing to do these things.

But if we don't, it will cost us infinitely more tears.

We all send thousands of jokes through e-mail

without a second thought, but when it comes

to sending messages regarding life choices,

people think twice about sharing.

The crude, vulgar, and sometimes the obscene

pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion

of decency is too often suppressed in the schools and

workplaces.

I passed this on... Will you?

At 11:58am on September 14, 2009, Peas In Their Pods said…: Hello Bruce, welcome to the Black Talk Radio Network. The Black Talk Media Project supports all efforts to gain media exposure for missing black children who get very little attention from mainstream media. Please view the missing children slide posted below. If you would like to really support this effort, click on the slide and grab the embed code and post it to your other profiles on Ning, Myspace or any other site you desire.

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