This PSA is the first promotional video for the Lift Every Voice Campaign: A Million Voices Raised Against Global Racism. This is a facebook group focused on raising public awareness about the pervasive racial discrimination people of African descent ...
Posted Sunday, January 30th 2011 at 10:45AM
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Fighting to end racism and discrimination against descendants of the African Diaspora through a year of global activism,
My article, “A Call For The End of Global Apartheid”, was a declaration of war against the insidious evil of “anti-black” raci ...
Posted Sunday, January 2nd 2011 at 1:14AM
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I'm on a furious learning curve trying to become more proficient with multimedia stuff. To hear the full interview==scroll down to the earlier post or visit Bangkok Poetry Streams podcast webpage at--http://web.me.com/ivorysimone. Subscribe to upcomi ...
Posted Tuesday, November 30th 2010 at 4:24AM
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Technical problems with our skype connection made me opt to do a pre-recorded episode instead of the live streamed show previously planned. Hope to resolve these problems before the next show in two weeks. I look forward to hearing your feedback. ...
Posted Sunday, November 28th 2010 at 8:16AM
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Author Ivory Simone shares a personal narrative about her family's experiences as black sharecroppers in Texas in a new "Havasu Means Blue Water" e-book Trailer. "One of the reasons I wrote a novel like Havasu Means Blue Water is that the generation ...
Posted Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 at 7:04AM
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Call-in Number: (424) 222-5252
Upcoming Show: 11/28/2010 3:00 PM
Host Name: Ivory Simone
Show Name:
Take A Bite Out Of The Big Mango
Length: 15 min
Description: Lifestyle, Art, Culture
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This re-scheduled episode is ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 10:25AM
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My apologies to folks who tuned into to listen to the "Take A Bite Out The Big Mango" Talk Radio show. There was an unfortunate mix-up in the schedule for the show (blame to go around on all sides--including me.) As soon as I can re-confirm the avail ...
Posted Sunday, November 21st 2010 at 6:02AM
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Havasu Means Blue Water is a novel about a fictional town called Wilburn, Arizona. It is a town with a violent past on the brink of collapse that finds a chance at redemption with the arrival of a young, graduate student, Lyla Amir, doing research on ...
Posted Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 3:10AM
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I've talked about my book so much because I truly believe in it. Well, I've just finshed the trailer for "Havasu Means Blue Water".
The novel is a story about a town with a violent past on the brink of collapse finding a chance for redemption wit ...
Posted Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 1:07PM
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I hadn’t lived in Thailand long when I got a call from a woman I greatly respected. She was very active with the Democrats Abroad Thailand organization. “I need a strong candidate to run for the position of Country Chair for Democrats Abroad Tha ...
Posted Saturday, November 13th 2010 at 3:35AM
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Does anyone know what steps are being taken to eliminate the Google Malware Site Warning that is blocking my ability to access this site (persistence paid off but I expect to be disconnected any second). Apparently someone is launching a malicious pr ...
Posted Monday, October 25th 2010 at 7:11AM
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Does anyone know what steps are being taken to eliminate the Google Malware Site Warning that's been posted on many of the HBCU web sites. I've had difficulty signing onto this site and expect to be disconnected shortly. Someone is apparently launchi ...
Posted Monday, October 25th 2010 at 6:47AM
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Here are 5 good reasons you should view, REFLECTIONS ON WRITING: AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR IVORY SIMONE,
Reason #!:
This is a discussion about the creative process and inspiration that a Black author followed to pen a fictional novel about the Ameri ...
Posted Friday, October 15th 2010 at 10:09AM
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I have to apologize at the outset for the poor quality of the finished product. The audio sound was lost in the file conversion from powerpoint to a movie format. I'm including a link to the Bangkok Poetry Streams Podcast site where you can listen to ...
Posted Thursday, October 14th 2010 at 11:48AM
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It's been estimated that twenty-five percent of all cowboys in the American west were black.
(Source: http://www.federationofblackcowboysnyc.com/page/history2.html).
The rugged lifestyle and relative independence of cowboys was a powerful lure t ...
Posted Wednesday, October 6th 2010 at 8:35AM
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My grandfather was a quiet man. He had a gentle way about him. Whenever I visited him, he'd greet me by calling out my nickname, "Champ!" My grandfather was a common laborer all his life: a sharecropper who became a janitor after leaving the farmland ...
Posted Monday, October 4th 2010 at 11:03PM
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