The bus leaves The
Khalifah Health Ranch Retreat on the afternoon
of January 17, 2008
&
We will tour the
Nat Turner Trail as part of our celebration of the
Inauguration of Barack Obama and the Survival of
Black people. We then travel 150 miles
to Washington, D. C. for the two day Conference.
January 18 & 19 at
THE THURGOODMARSHALLCENTER
1816 12th Street
N.W.
call 704-509-6773
or 704-277-1462
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS FOR WEEKEND:
Friday, January 16,
2009 at The Khalifah Health Ranch Retreat:
Southampton County, Virginia, .....Roundtable
Discussion about the opportunities to "TO DO FOR
SELF" with a Black President of the U. S. A.
Is a Independent disposition needed more than ever?
Saturday, January
17, 2009 – Tour of The Nat Turner Trail on the trip
to Washington, D.C. Leave at 12 Noon – tour the
Trail, arrive in Washington, D. C. at
The schedule
for the Sunday, January 18 "mini" writers workshops
(15 minutes to discuss you and your product or
ideas) and the Independent dignitaries who will
make full presentations during the day, will be
announced....Monday, January 19, The "round-table"
Summit of Independent Black Leaders" will also be
announced...
Anyone who'd
like to submit a "Black Experience Story" - yours or
someone else, please send in your information. If we
get enough submissions by December 15, we will print
the National Black Survivors Commemorative Journal
in time for January Inauguration weekend.
Anyone who
would like to exhibit a (1) product or brochure of
your service to Black people, should send your
information to KHALIFAH:
P. O. Box
9
- Drewryville,
VA.
23844 by January
1. Otherwise bring it to Washington.
If your product is approved, it will be exhibited
free of charge. But if you want to sell or make a
presentation, there will be a fee.
The
Black Writers Alliance will be holding a INDEPENDENT
BLACK WRITERS DIALOGUE with Independent Black
Booksellers, Publishers, Printers, Publists,
Literary Agents & Their Readers
August
12th and 13th, 2005 in Harlem, New York 11:00am
to 9:00pm
If
You Can Make It In New York YOu Can Make It
Any were...
Events
& Locations:
August
12th - Carlos A. Cooks Hall 134th Street and Adam Clayton Powell
Jr. Blvd. 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm August 13 - Harlem State Office Building
Rooms 8A, 8B &8C
125th Street and Adman Clayton Powell Jr.
Blvd. 12 noon to 8 p.m.
Guests:
CONFIRMED BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS:
Civilized Publications
United Brothers Communications Systems
INVITED
BOOKSELLERS
Lushena
Books: Mr. Luther Warner
Afrikan World Books, Brother Nati
A & B Books
Lushena Books
Cultural Plus Books
Red
Sea Press
Just Us Books - Wade & Cheryl Hudson
Confirmed
Writers:
Sharazad Ali-"Blackman's
Guide to Understanding the Black Woman"
- 1991 Book of the Year H. Khalif Khalifah- "Melanin:
Conscious Attunment" Judy Carter Khalifah- "The
Jesus Chronicles" - Best
New Writer 1999 Omar G. Reid-
"Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder"
-Winner of 2005 "Carter
G. Woodson Award Omar Tyree-
"The Underground"-1996 Black Book Award
Scott Whitaker- "MediSin"
-2005 Book of the Year Monica Hanchett- "Expressions:
A Book of Poems"
-2005 Black Book Award Nana Butweiku I- "Afrika:
It's World and Our People"-2005
Best Non-Fiction
Ruby Shribers- "Quarters"
-Black Book Award Kamau Kambom- "The Last
Book" -Black Book Award Kimberly Jones- "A Preachers
Secret" -2005 Best New
Writer Yahya Abdul Karim- "Afrikan
Names" -1993 Black Book
Award Minister Neal Jackson-
"The Blue-Eyed Beast"
-2005 Nat Turner Freedom Award
(Others will be listed as they are confirmed)
Presented
by: United Black Booksellers Trade Association,
KHABoooks.com & Conquering Books, LLC Sponsored by: Civilized Publishers
& United Black Writers Alliance.
BLACK
BOOOK ECONOMIC AWARDS will be presented to the
black booksellers, black distributors, black
publishers, black printers, black graphic designers
and black internet designers A registration fee is required to Present
(speak) at this conference. It is the second
conference presented by the UNITED BLACK BOOKSELLERS
TRADE ASSOCIATION. It is presented in the effort
to celebrate and validate the leaders in the
Independent Black Book Publishing Industry.
And is a promotional opportunity for independent
Black Writers. All who pay the registration
fee will have the opportunity to speak on Friday
and Saturday for 10 minutes, display sign and
sell books retail & wholesale and retain
all proceeds. For more information call Khalifah
@ (704)509-222. you may also register
now through our simple on-line
application.
UNITED
BLACK BOOKSELLERS TRADE ASSOCIATION® was
founded in 1993 by H. Khalif Khalifah and Yahya
Abdul Karim as a trade organization to celebrate,
protect, validate, promote Excellent Black Artist
and Literature.
lDECEMBER FAST
DECLARED BY
THE HONORABLE
ELIJAH MUHAMMAD
by H. Khalif Khalifah
-----------------------
12/1/07
This
is to say to all within my reach that I still observe the fast that was declared
by The Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I have observed the month of December to
varying degrees of success for 33 years. I always attempt to participate in it
100% through my every word, act and deed. And though this is an impossibility,
the striving have help keep me as close to the straight and narrow path that I
am. I have been abundantly blessed by Allah when I forget, go into error or make
a mistake. And I have concluded that the grea-test blessing of all is that I
turn to The Creator, Sustainer and Cherisher of all persons, places and things
for help. So after 33 years of striv-ing, I believe I am in the position in life
that I have the best chance of being 100% dutiful dur-ing this month I pray for
success for everyone who is participating, ob-serving or sensitive to Black
Muslims during this time. Ultimately, I fast for the power to be a better
servant to African people, as we continue to struggle for “Freedom, Justice and
Equality”………..Peace, Khalifah, December 1, 2007
I
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world. It is the first Book that is written about N'COBRA by one of it's leaders
during the peak of its growth in the 1990's.
Khalifah served on
the National Board of Directors for six years, was Co-Chair of the Human
Services Commission for five years, Facilitated a Media Workshop that
conceptionalized and formulated the N'Cobra listserv, served with Dr. Obadele
and Cicero Love on the first Economic Development Commission (a workshop
/committee, at the time) and was the co-ordinator for the 9th Annual Reparations
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His book is
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"what to do with the Negroes?" the newly freed Africans cried out immediately
for restitution - payback for centuries of stolen labor, cultural degradation
and dehumanizations. Indeed, Africans held as slaves have been struggling for a
restored sense of wholeness since being brought to this country as chattel.
Other
organizations and individuals have carried the demand for reparations farther
into the twentieth century. Many of them have become a part of today's
Reparations Campaign which is being spearheaded by N'COBRA.
