Universal Africana Literary Arts Movement

02/04/2025

Pittsburgh, stand up!!! Mark your calendars!!

Come join UBBCP at their annual The Women Gather program for Women's History Month. 2025 theme is What We Carry. Explore the world of local and international Black Women Artists. Engaging activity to share what has been handed down or what you carry as a Black woman. Light refreshments. RSVP to [email protected]

02/04/2025

Durham, stand up!!!

February @ Hayti
Celebrate with Theater & Poetry!

Feb. 7th & 8th - Helen's History Hop @ 7pm
Feb 8th - The Melanated Chrysalis @ 2pm
Feb. 14th - 100 Roses @ 6pm & 9pm
Feb. 15th - Late Night Poetry Slam @ Midnight
Feb. 21st - 3rd Fri with African American Quilters Circle @ 6pm
Feb. 28th - Changing Same by Mike Wiley @ 7pm
- https://mailchi.mp/hayti/feb2025-haytiheritagecenter-11036880

02/04/2025

SUPER Fyi!!!!

Spread the word, and PLEASE participate!!! Let's show what our brother Baba Turtel Onli meant to us!!!

It began in 2013 as an art installation. It became a celebration and a space where true diversity exists in this industry. It is a living historical document and the gold standard of independent works from creators of color. It is the longest-running anthology of its kind. But all good things must come to an end and, we’re going out with a bang.

The doors are open now until Mar. 15. We’re looking for creators to enter the Cypher one last time to celebrate the life and work of Turtel Onli, the Father of the Black Age of comics. You got bars? Join us for the final posse cut and remind the world that Comics are Hip Hop. The link for submissions is in the comments!

02/02/2025

By Dr. Chancellor Williams,Chancellor Williams was an African-American sociologist, historian, and writer. He is recognized for his work on African civilizations before their encounters with the Europeans; his major noted work is The Destruction of Black Civilization.

02/02/2025

01/30/2025

Fyi!!!

Mark your calendars, and please spread the word!! :-)

01/30/2025

Truth!!!!!

We must socialize and educate a new generation with with a scholar-warrior mentality.

01/30/2025

Fyi!!!

Mark your calendars, and spread the word!!!

Join us virtually on Saturday, February 22nd for our first UHURU Healing Space of 2025, titled “Presence in Absence: Navigating Transitions and Grief in Community”.

Presented by CCCADI CROSSROADS, UHURU Healing and Empowering Space is a virtual safe space designed to create a nurturing and supportive environment for artists and cultural advocates.

This workshop explores grief as a transformative process that invites individuals to reflect on their growth and future learning. It acknowledges the challenges of loss and seeks to guide participants toward understanding and integrating new realities, fostering individual and communal growth.

The facilitator Wilka Roig will lead discussions, group dynamics, and reflective exercises to foster a space of respect, curiosity, and compassion. Participants will examine cultural scripts, myths, and misconceptions about grief while identifying alternative responses and strategies.

Saturday February 22, 2025
9AM - 12PM AST
Virtual via Zoom
Free Registration | Link on Bio

01/30/2025

Fyi!!!!

Call for submissions!!! Spread the word!!!

Through January 31, Epistemic Literary is accepting submissions for WhirligigLit, its new publication for a young audience. Writers of all ages are welcome to submit poetry, fiction, and visual art on the theme “Take a Stand.” Learn more: https://www.clmp.org/members/open-submission/whirligiglit-take-a-stand/

01/29/2025

MESSAGE!!!!

Especially your African history. Let them know the truth!❤️🖤😍

01/29/2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/96906-bookshop-org-debuts-its-e-book-platform.html?oly_enc_id=4246I7899612D3Y
Fyi.....

Might be something that my fellow indie sesh should look into....?

The online bookseller, which offers a profit-sharing model to independent bookstore partners, launched its long-anticipated e-book platform on January 28, allowing indies to sell e-books directly to customers.

01/27/2025

01/27/2025

MESSAGE!!!!

If we stand tall, it is because we stand on the shoulders of our ancestors.

01/27/2025

This is fu**ed up.... :-( :'-(

This Friday, the Trump administration moved to support the proliferation of book bans across the United States. Late last week, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights not-so-qu…

01/27/2025

Oh, WOW!!! :-O

I was NOT aware of this!!! This is great information to know!! :-)

The Ga Dangme people have their own set of symbols just like the Akan have the Adinkra symbols. These are some of the SAMAI SYMBOLS of the Ga people.

01/27/2025

While we were planning Q1 for 2025, we could never have guessed that things would have turned out the way they did in all its unprecedented twists and turns. Just as much we couldn’t have predicted the near divine alignment of the themes of these two novels being launched in February.

During Black History Month no less. In the dawning moments of what feels like a dismantling.

Casualties of Truth and A House for Miss Pauline are urgent reminders of how you can never run away from the past. History’s crimes will always find you out one day. Set in the United States and Jamaica respectively, both narratives are conjoined by the connective thematic tissue that the past and the present are inextricably linked and how the occupied future one desires requires accountability.

If that’s not an urgent message for this season, then what is? But as usual, we turn to the remarkable power of story to save, to elucidate, to do the talking for us. We turn inwardly to community. The truth. To strategise. To persevere. To grow stronger.

We couldn’t have known. But there’s a divine power who does. And we’re grateful.

In that vein, you’re invited to flood the house this February for the Caribbean Takeover during Black History Month. We doing it big. With joy. For the tomorrow we want to see.

Tickets are available at our link in bio.

Love,

Marsha & Mellany

01/26/2025

REPOST• Jambalaya Soul Slam founder and curator Dasan Ahanu is excited to present a special poetry writing workshop to Charlotte and Durham. and will be facilitating these workshops. This is a part of Dasan’s work as Cultural Organizing Director for the NC Climate Justice Collective. The session will introduce participants to Live Alkaline Water NC. The workshop is FREE. Email Dasan at [email protected] to reserve your spot!

This workshop examines how to put your thoughts and ideas down on paper and how to make them come alive. Participants will engage in writing prompts, peer review, and sharing activities that will bring out the power inside them.

This workshop is based on the Re-imagine aspect of NCCJC Four R’s framework. In order to generate a just world, we must be able to imagine and communicate what a society based on partnership, inclusion, and interdependence looks like. In this workshop, participants will use the artwork to re-imagine our world as we consider all that we face and must navigate through.

Participants will receive FREE Live Alkaline Water from Heavy Energy University.

Live Alkaline Water is a Black-Owned, All-Natural, 100 percent chemical-free, H320 sourced from an aquifer with springs that sit above a mineral rock bed. The best part is that no artificial processes were used to alter this water; it comes fresh from the source by Vision Bottling Company Winston Salem, NC. Alkaline spring water restores health to the body by cleansing the cells.

Monday January 27, 2025
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Hayti Heritage Center
804 Old Fayetteville St
Durham, NC 27701