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26/02/2024

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26/02/2024

26/02/2024

As the month ends please keep celebrating

12/02/2024

If We Must Die by Claude McKay. One of the greatest poems in literary history. Take a few minutes to read this powerful poem written during the Harlem Renaissance and influenced by the writings and scholarship of W.E.B. DuBois.

If We Must Die

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

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02/02/2024

Happy Black History Month

Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama was a college student at the age of 15 when she begin writing poetry. She received a BA from Northwestern University in 1935 and an MA from the University of Iowa in 1940. In 1936 she joined the Federal Writers’ Project in Chicago, where she became friends with Richard Wright and joined his South Side Writers Group.
In 1941 Walker became the first African American poet to receive the Yale Younger Poets Prize, for her debut collection For My People (Yale University Press, 1942). She was also the author of the poetry collections This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (University of Georgia Press, 1989), October Journey (Broadside Press, 1973), and Prophets for a New Day (Broadside Press, 1970).
Walker married Firnist Alexander in 1943, and together they had four children. In 1949 they moved to Mississippi, where she joined the faculty at Jackson State College. She returned to the University of Iowa for her doctoral studies and received a PhD in 1965. The following year, she published her dissertation as a novel, Jubilee (Houghton Mifflin, 1966).
In 1968 Walker founded the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People at Jackson State College. As director of the institute, which was later renamed the Margaret Walker Center, she organized the 1971 National Evaluative Conference on Black Studies and the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival.
After Walker retired from teaching in 1979, she published On Being Female, Black, and Free (University of Tennessee Press, 1997), a collection of personal essays, and Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius (Warner Books, 1988), a work of nonfiction informed by her friendship with Wright. Margaret Walker died of cancer on November 30, 1998, in Jackson, Mississippi.
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01/02/2024

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!

28/01/2024

Latrice gave me this idea for Thursday's hangout!! Thanks, ship!!

26/01/2024

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24/01/2024

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23/01/2024

American Fiction is a GREAT movie!!

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15/01/2024

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11/12/2023

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15/11/2023

Check out my latest blog

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11/11/2023

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02/11/2023

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28/10/2023

The Becoming a FEARless Author VIRTUAL conference is set to launch in February 2024! All Star Presentors to motivate writers to plan and publish their first novel!! Registration packet includes, textbooks and workbooks to get you started as a FEARLESS AUTHOR!!

27/10/2023

Conference for writers with author dreams and authors who want more!!

25/10/2023

Gotta get my authors on talk shows!!

Bestselling author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah shares the inspiration behind his first novel, “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” the reason he chose to have a Black woman ...

12/10/2023

My Pastor got a book!!!

October 20th Book Drops!!!

30/09/2023

God said write the vision and make it plain, and I did! It worked last time!!

29/09/2023

27/09/2023

OCTOBER Goals for DreamWriterInk! We're still accepting new authors until December 1st. Gotta plan our first virtual conference!!

20/09/2023

https://bookriot.com/bestselling-books-september-18-2023/

Publishers Weekly, USA Today, the NYT, Amazon, and Indie Bestsellers all have their own bestseller lists. Here are the combined results.