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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Black' (4)

From the Slush Pile to Publication. Do purple ravens exist?

Randomness can be defined as events that happen outside predictability, prior knowledge and beliefs. I’ll start with an example. What has Paris Hilton done for the fine arts? The answer: NOTHING. And yet, she became the next big thing.



Now let’s take this concept to the world of publishing with the idea that a writer’s manuscript, deep within the bowels of the slush pile, is discovered at random – regardless of whether you are Hemingway resurrected or just another…

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Added by Jennifer Swan on June 9, 2010 at 2:35pm — No Comments

Canada's Black Settlements & The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was neither Underground, nor was it a Railroad. It was in essence a series of conductors, safe houses, trails along rivers, secret routes, sometimes walking, and other times hiding in wagons. Before Europeans arrived, North and South America was comprised of thousands of Native American Tribes. Native Cultures date back at least ten thousand years, having traveled over the Bering Strait into North…

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Added by Anita Wills on February 23, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Simon Drock and Lot Little 1790 census New Hampshire

While doing some research for the 1790 Census: Slave Holders, Other Free Persons and Slaves website I found a couple of wonderful sites containing great information for a Simon Drock and Lot Little of New Hampshire.



Simon Drock was living in Newport, Cheshire County, NH in the 1790 census. Simon Drock, born about 1760 was the son of a Negro slave by the name of Guy Drock. Guy was the slave of… Continue

Added by Toni Feeney on August 16, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Famous Black Cemetary in Chicago - Desecrated!

The following link is in regards to a statement made today about Burr Oaks Cemetary in Chicago, Ill - famous resting place to several famous african-americans, including Emmett Louis Till. Apparently, for four years now, the cemetary workers have been digging up graves, cutting up the bodies, and dumping the parts into a massive open grave in the deepest backends of the cemetary land. How could anyone desecrate a grave that… Continue

Added by Porsha A. Williams on July 9, 2009 at 4:42pm — 3 Comments

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