Pre-Harlem Book Fair Meet-N-Greet
July 15, 2016
Harlem Nights Bar
2316 7th Ave
Harlem, NYC
Contact Author David L. to rsvp to attend the event!!!
www.totalpackagepublication.com
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Friday, July 1, 2016
Pre-Harlem Book Fair Meet-N-Greet 2016
Pre-Harlem Book Fair Meet-N-Greet
July 15, 2016
Harlem Nights Bar
2316 7th Ave
Harlem, NYC
Contact Author David L. to rsvp to attend the event!!!
www.totalpackagepublication.com
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Literacy Across Harlem/Literacy Across the South Bronx- Monthly event
Literacy Across Harlem
Literacy Across the South Bronx
The new literacy initiative created by the brothers and sisters from Total Equity Now (TEN). Based in Harlem, and spreading out to the other boroughs, and hopefully beyond. Meant to encourage increased literacy in our communities, these monthly events help to bring the cool back to the love of literature. Lets do our part to help spread the word to #RockThoseReads!!!! Held on the first day of every month!!!
#RockThoseReads
www.totalequitynowharlem.org
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Harlem Adult Education Conference 2016
Brought to you by the brothers and sisters from Total Equity Now (TEN) Harlem! Mark your Calendars!!
Harlem Adult Education Conference
November 6, 2015
New York, NY
www.totalequitynowharlem.org
Friday, January 23, 2015
Tales From the Rhythmic-Zone: A Book Review
Tales From the Rhythmic-Zone
Onli Studios
Story, Pencils, & Ink by: Turtel Onli
Color by: Ashley Woods
Cover Art by: Christian St. Pierre
Tales From the Rhythmic-Zone is a graphic novel combining four stories created through Onli Studios: "NOG NU", "NOG is Back", "The Legend of the Azaniac", and "Wolfshead". The majority of the book is based on the character of NOG, a staple character in the Black Age of Comics Movement started and created by Turtel Onli in Chicago back in 1980s (1981 to be exact).
The main character is known as NOG: The Protector of the Pyramids, protecting the inhabitants of Planet Nubia; a spiritually and technologically advanced race of people from deep in the reaches of outer space. NOG is the result of the union between a Virgin Nubian woman, and "a comet set forth by the sun on the perfect day of peace", he has the power to change form at the speed of thought. To quote Tales From the Rhythmic-Zone:
"Becoming NOG is a process where the most gifted of all Nuba gives over his or her life to protect the Nubian Pyramides, and the planet Nuba."
NOG fights against the Technocratic Complex, and in this graphic novel specifically, against the character of Mag-Non. The Nubian spaceway has been attacked recently by the Technocratic Complex, plundering their outposts, having been destroyed and defaced. Upon this time of reckoning, they have found a new NOG; one that is adaptable for combat on sky, sea, and sand...and especially on dry land.
Mag-Non has arrived on Planet Nubia, using stealth and deceit, attacking the Nubian forces. Nog finally appears, traveling at the speed of thought, and engages Mag-Non in vicious combat.
I truly enjoyed this book, and the creativity behind it. I liked Mr. Onli's use of Kemetic/African spirituality, and cultural history, blending the two in a science fiction narrative form. The colors used were engaging, as well as the attempts at social commentary, without being heavy handed, and on the preachy side. Though preachiness can be very debatable, at least in my humble opinion, the messages in the story weren't over the top. They were quite creative, using some of the character's spiritual decisions and morphing them into a contemporary context.
We are not taught much about our history, or our cultural heritage; Mr. Onli's use of the graphic novel format helped to teach a bit of our history to those of us that are unaware. Graphic novels (and comic books overall, for that matter) are an under utilized tool as a way of reaching our community as an educational tool. They could and should be used as a way to open our children's minds to their history and culture that they might not be receiving at home, and are definitely not being taught in the mainstream school system.
I truly enjoyed this product, and would recommend it for anyone; child or adult. If you are interested in buying this product, and any other Black Age products (There are actually many), you can actually reach Bro. Turtel Onli at www.onlistudios.com. They have other Black Age materials that you would be interested in; not just for our young boys, but also for our young sisters as well.
Please spread the word!!! THE BLACK AGE FOREVER!!!!!
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
National Black United Front (NBUF) 35th Annual National Convention 2014
National Black United Front
35th Annual Convention
July 10-13, 2014
Washington, DC (HOWARD UNIVERSITY)
Symposiums, speakers, panel discussions, Youth market, and MUCH much more!
www.nbufdc.org
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Pre-Harlem Book Fair Meet-N-Greet
July 11, 2014
Beso Lounge
320 E. 204th Street
Bronx, NY
Tickets $20
purchase online at www.totalpackagepublications.com
Hosted By Author, David L.!!!!
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Writing from the Womb Workshop
Representing for mi hermana Alicia Anabel Santos, workshop coordinator!!!
"My most humbling and significant role is around supporting writers in doing the work... the task of tending to the work... the discipline of the writers craft... the process of giving birth to something you work so hard for. I realized recently that everything that I have done in my life, on my writers journey, discovering my voice, leading women spaces has led me to transforming the Writing from the Womb workshop and facilitating it in a much different way than I have in the past."
http://wp.me/p3qxYP-Ko
March 23, 2014
11am
DUB Center
563 West 183rd Street
New York, NY
Click on the link for more details!!!
"My most humbling and significant role is around supporting writers in doing the work... the task of tending to the work... the discipline of the writers craft... the process of giving birth to something you work so hard for. I realized recently that everything that I have done in my life, on my writers journey, discovering my voice, leading women spaces has led me to transforming the Writing from the Womb workshop and facilitating it in a much different way than I have in the past."
http://wp.me/p3qxYP-Ko
March 23, 2014
11am
DUB Center
563 West 183rd Street
New York, NY
Click on the link for more details!!!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Schedule of Events: Summer 2013
Latino Comics
Expo
June 1-2,
2013
San Francisco, CA
New York
Black Expo & Music
Heritage Festival
June 8-9,
2013
New York, NY
Odunde Festival
June 9,
2013
Philadelphia, PA
Afro/Latino
Magazine Parade &
Festival
June 15,
2013
Reading, PA
LatinoFest
June 22-23,
2013
Baltimore, MD
Afro Latino
Festival of New York
June 29,
2013
Brooklyn, NY
Bayou Soul
Writers & Readers
Conference
July 3,
2013
New Orleans, LA
International
African Arts Festival
July 4-7,
2013
Brooklyn, NY
African American
Festival
July 6-7,
2013
Baltimore, MD
Happy Nappy
Day
July 14, 2013
Gwynn Oak, MD
Annual Caribbean
Carnival/Festival
July 13-14, 2013
Baltimore, MD
Hurston/Wright
Writer's Week Workshop
July 14-19,
2013
Washington, DC
Harlem Book
Fair
July 19-20,
2013
New York, NY
Becoming a
Best Selling Author
Conference
July 26-28,
2013
Essington, PA
FestAfrica
August 10-11,
2013
Silver Spring, MD
OnyxCon
August 16-17,
2013
Atlanta, GA
African American
Author's Expo
August 17,
2013
Baltimore, MD
Saturday, February 23, 2013
PLM Afrikan Marketplace 2013
Representing for my activist people here in Baltimore. PLM (Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement) holds their monthly event the Afrikan Marketplace every third Saturday of the month. It's about showing support to our independent black businesses and entrepreneurs. This is their schedule for 2013. Please contact them if you would like to vend.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The Consortium of Afro Latino Communities 2013: "Our Stories, Our Voices"
Tubman-Toure Division #460 of the UNIA & ACL presents...
The Consortium of Afro Latino Communities
Panel Discussion and Book Signing
"Our Stories, Our Voices"
Featured panelists:
Christopher Rodriguez, "Latino Manifesto"
Kevin Alberto Sabio, "Raise Your Brown Black Fist"
Alicia Anabel Santos, "Finding Your Force"
Prof. Rebecca Hackett, moderator
Baltimore City Community College-Liberty Campus
2901 Liberty Heights Avenue
Baltimore, MD
FREE....and accessible by public transportation!!!
Spring Season 2013
Here is the latest Schedule of Events listing that we've come up with:
Black Expo Charleston
Louisiana Black Heritage Festival
March 8-10, 2013
Lake Charles, LA
Black Expo Charleston
March 9, 2013
Charleston, SC
Hurston/Wright 2-Day Writers
Workshop
March 23-24, 2013
Washington, DC
National Black Herstory Conference &
Awards Banquet
March 28-31, 2013
Atlanta, GA
National Black Writers' Conference
Biennial Symposium
March 30, 2013
Brooklyn, NY
Write On! Workshop
March 30, 2013
Dayton, OH
Africa in April Cultural Awareness
Festival
April 17-21, 2013
Memphis, TN
Dayton Book Expo
April 27, 2013
Dayton, OH
Que Pasa Festival
May 4, 2013
Richmond, VA
Kids Comic Con
May 11, 2013
New York, NY
East Coast Black Age of Comics
Convention (ECBACC)
May 18, 2013
Philadelphia, PA
Black Expo Columbia
May 18, 2013
Columbia, SC
The list is updated periodically whenever we get new information. Please check in on a periodic basis to see any new events and dates.
Back/Fresh on the scene in 2013!!!
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Black Age of Comics Movement
Having started exactly TWENTY years ago this month, and STILL going strong, Bro. Turtel Onli created a movement of comic book art created BY Black people FOR Black people. Based in Chicago, and representing worldwide, spawning FOUR comic book conventions, please help us to celebrate and support the movement.
LONG LIVE THE BLACK AGE!!!!
LONG LIVE THE BLACK AGE!!!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
New Years greetings to one and all! May we all be blessed with prosperity and heightened achievements! To all of our members, and our supports and followers, here's to progress and achievement. We are not just a one-time event.....WE ARE A MOVEMENT!!!!
Back/Fresh on the Scene for 2013!!!!
Back/Fresh on the Scene for 2013!!!!
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
State of the Black World Conference III
State of the Black World Conference
"State of Emergency in Black America: Time to Heal Black Families and Communities"
November 14-18, 2012
Washington, DC
Black Power Hip Hop Conference
Presented by National Black United Front (NBUF)
November 2-4, 2012
Washington, DC
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Thursday, November 3, 2011
PLM Afrikan Marketplace
Since my time here in Baltimore, I have been lucky enough to be able to network and politic with a number of like-minded brothers and sisters out here. One of those groups of brothers and sisters dedicated to the uplift of our people/community is called Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement, or PLM for short. These dedicated young brothers and sisters have created many programs to help engage the community in; one of such is their monthly Afrikan Marketplace.
Their monthly Afrikan Marketplace brings together the local community and Black business owners, gaining support and exposure for these Black-owned businesses, and also instilling the local residents with a sense of Ujamaa and Umoja (cooperative economics, and unity). They are circulating Black dollars within the Black community, trying to keep our money in our own community.
PLM's Afrikan Marketplace is held every 3rd Saturday of the month from 1pm-7pm. As of this posting, the next Afrikan marketplace will be held on Saturday, November 19th. The Marketplace is held at the Maggie Quile Druid Heights Community Center, located at 2140 McCulloh Street here in Baltimore, MD. For those of you interested in participating, PLM can be contacted at 443-257-2470, or you may email them at acefund04@gmail.com.
As I like to say when promoting their Afrikan Marketplace on other cyber locales....SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY!!!! SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESSES!!!!!!!!
Their monthly Afrikan Marketplace brings together the local community and Black business owners, gaining support and exposure for these Black-owned businesses, and also instilling the local residents with a sense of Ujamaa and Umoja (cooperative economics, and unity). They are circulating Black dollars within the Black community, trying to keep our money in our own community.
PLM's Afrikan Marketplace is held every 3rd Saturday of the month from 1pm-7pm. As of this posting, the next Afrikan marketplace will be held on Saturday, November 19th. The Marketplace is held at the Maggie Quile Druid Heights Community Center, located at 2140 McCulloh Street here in Baltimore, MD. For those of you interested in participating, PLM can be contacted at 443-257-2470, or you may email them at acefund04@gmail.com.
As I like to say when promoting their Afrikan Marketplace on other cyber locales....SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY!!!! SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESSES!!!!!!!!
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