June Vibes/ #AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind

 We are now in the month of JUNE!!!  The year of 2021 is officially half over!!  :-O!!!  Time sure is flying this year, ain't it....?

Okay...first up.  News about my latest novel "Knuckle Up" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021)....

Sales have been abysmal.  I had ONE purchase (a download) last month, and that was on some quid pro quo type shit.  I'm starting to get really irritated by the lack of support.  I continue to do the online promotion of this project...sending out my weekly e-blasts to my contacts list on my email Mailing List, but I get nothing in return.  I'm getting irritated that nobody is taking me or my writing career seriously, even my so-called 'friends' and 'followers' on social media.  Eleven years, and thirteen books later...you'd think people would finally start to get it.  But, then again....I'm not being mentioned by the white establishment, or have a big hype machine behind me.  Whatever...

ALSO....June marks the six-year publishing anniversary of my novel "Demure Nights" (CreateSpace, 2015).

I dropped this Street Lit/Erotica novel in June of 2015.  It was part of a three-book publishing binge that I was on.  It was in the middle of my trying to work on my writing career full time; from 2014-2017.  2015 was the banner year, as I dropped 3 books that year, and Demure Nights was number two on that list.  The book is still available in both paperback & eBook formats.  I'm quite proud of this novel, as it was a clear departure of my more politically tinged books that were available, at the time.  It's a really good story, but completely slept on, just like a lot of my other novels.  Hey...it's still out there, and available in the marketplace.  

Still currently writing Book III of The Black Fist novel series.  I'm at least 75% - 85% done writing the first draft.  The final chapter has actually already been written, so I just have to find a way to conclude the story, so that the ending makes sense.  The story is flowing really well, for the most part.  I'm hoping to be done with the draft by the end of the year.  Hopefully, I'll be able to publish the project in 2022.  We shall see...

For those of you who do not know....I've created an account on VIMEO!  I've added a few episodes of "The Rough Draft" on there, as well as my latest Author Book Trailer.  I'm hoping to get better results on Vimeo, than I do on YouTube.  So far, it's looking about the same.  Oh, well...I can only do so much to market & promote myself.  Check me out at www.vimeo.com/AuthorKevinSabio.

 

ALSO....I have finally updated my Author Page on Amazon.com.  I have included a picture of myself, as well as added a few photos, and the latest Author Book Trailer.  I'm hoping that this bit of marketing will help to make my books more visible to people on there, and any potential fans out there on Amazon.  Now, if I could just get a few more reviews on there for my books...

 

I'm back at work at my old day job.  They (finally) called me back to work.  I'm actually quite glad, as my savings were starting to run a lot lower than I like.  I kinda miss having the free time to work on my writing, and market my books, but still...I need the paycheck.  Plus, I was going outta my mind with boredom.  I need to have something to do with my life, other than just flip channels.  At least I have options, now.  I'm hoping to take advantage of the job, and transfer to another account in another state by the end of the year, if not next year.   I've mf had it with Delaware, and need a new place to try to grow my career.  Hopefully, I can move to a city/state where people actually read.  I was thinking DC, but it's still pretty expensive to live out there.  I don't know...I still have six more months to figure shit out...

I'm considering a conversion project.  I have this basketball movie that I wrote, basically 20 years ago.  It's about female basketball players called "Second Chance Points".  I loved writing that film, and really wish that I had the opportunity to produce it.  It would've been a big budget movie, so there was no way that I'd be able to fund it on my own.  I think that it would make a great novel, and I'm strongly considering converting it.  I'm just really hesitant to do that, considering the lack of support the majority of my books get.  Knuckle Up is about female boxer, and I can't get ANYBODY to really rock with that novel; not even the female fighters that I follow on social media (Twitter, specifically).  What's the fucking point, then?  I don't subscribe to that bullshit I-write-my-books-for-myself nonsense.  If that were true, yo ass wouldn't bother going through the process of publishing your book(s), and putting it/them out there in the marketplace.  I'm not trying to publish something that won't be supported.  Oh well...we'll see.  I'll let you know what I decide.

That's all for now.  Hoping to post another blog entry for you guys, soon.  It's kinda hard to be consistent, when you don't feel supported in your endeavors.  Until next time...

Keep the fist raised.

#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind

Celebrating Akoma Day 2017

It's that time of year again!  Looking forward to celebrating Akoma Day, which runs from February 14th through February 20th.  It is a CULTURAL alternative to Valentine's Day, without the commercialized stress of the holiday.  Akoma Day is more of a celebration of the union of two souls, and the joining of those two souls in a committed union, and building a family.  It's somewhat of a Rites of Passage in the realm of relationships, and love.  It's more about building a community through forging a healthy relationship between a man and a woman, and their roles in a relationship, and to one another.

As of yet, I don't have anyone to celebrate Akoma Day with, but hoping to change that in the near future.  Looking forward to eventually finding my queen/empress/goddess/Omega to my Alpha.  Instead of suffering through the commercialization of Valentine's Day, lets learn to culturally build our relationships, and forge a stronger union with our significant other.  Happy Akoma Day!!!

Ujamaa Effect: Putting "El Negro" in Viernes Negro [Holiday Hustle]

It's that time of year again for me, and other indie creative content creators....

The holidays are coming up, and it's time for all of us indies to fight for your dollars along side the big industry behemoths of the world that have all of the marketing power at their disposal.  In recent years, they've tried to expand it beyond the usual confines of just "Black Friday".  It is now Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and more recently added, Cyber Sunday.  My usual plan is to constantly promote my published works from November, all the way up to February, taking advantage of not only "Black Friday" after Thanksgiving, but also Christmas, Kwanzaa, MLK's Birthday, and Black History Month.

I think that people need to work harder at supporting our entrepreneurs and indie artists, and not just give our money away to these big conglomerates and box stores.  I know too many of my fellow content creators who are struggling to get supported by the consumer community, especially our own people.  Our people like to complain a lot, but don't really back up a lot of their complaints with any real concrete action.  There are too many of us that are promoting the heck out of our works online, and not getting any type of support.

Let's try to really support our Black/Brown entrepreneurs.  Speaking for myself, my works are all available online at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble [www.bn.com], and Books-A-Million [www.booksamillion.com].  You can also go to the publisher's site for each book, to purchase a copy during the holidays.

So...lets REALLY try to put the 'black' into Black Friday.  Let's talk with our dollars, and really show some financial 'black/brown power'.  If we really do have TRILLIONS in disposable income, then lets spend that money wisely, and with our own.

Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino
Publisher: Authorhouse
www.authorhouse.com

Raise Your Brown Black Fist 2: MORE Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino
Publisher: Outskirts Press
www.outskirtspress.com

In My Lifetime: funny Stories of Life Lessions
Publisher: Outskirts Press
www.outskirtspress.com

The Chronicles of The Black Fist
Publisher: Createspace
www.createspace.com

Demure Nights
Publisher; CreateSpace
www.createspace.com

AFTERMATH: Big Literary Weekend

It too me a while ot get around to writing this.  This is actually quite a positive post.

I had a really good weekend, this past weekend that just passed from the 18th to the 20th.  I was able to hook up with some literary contacts that I had, and involve myself in some activities that were going on around here.  Considering the string of bad luck and misery that I'd been going through lately, I would say that this good fortune was much deserved.

I was able to hook up (at the last minute) with my peoples at the Caribbean Cultural Theatre, an organization that focuses primarily on Caribbean-American and Caribbean authors/poets based in the United States.  I know the founder/organizer personally, and we have been in contact with each other for a few years now (primarily through the internet).  When I finally moved back home, was when we finally got the chance to meet each other in person.  Anyway....I knew ahead of time that they were supposed to be having a "bookend" event on Friday, the 18th; a literary event leading up top the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, the 20th.  I wasn't even sure if I was going to be able to attend either event due to my serious lack of funds.  That's when the brother offered me the opportunity to work as a volunteer at his event.  (It helped that he offered to compensate me for my services).

Of course...I jumped at the chance to help.

I basically worked as a "gofer" for his event on Friday (go for this...go for that, lol, lol).  I actually had a lot of fun, when I wasn't running around like a mad man.  I got to enjoy the program, and not have to pay to attend.  it reminded me of back when I used to volunteer for some Black film festivals in NYC in my younger days.  It also helped that i knew a few of the authors that were there participating in the event.

The big one was on Sunday, the Brooklyn Book Festival.  I helped to man the booth for the Caribbean Cultural Theatre, which was shared by two other organizations representing Caribbean authors; Read Jamaica (obviously based out of Jamaica), and Caribbean Reads (based in St. Kitts/Nevis).  I had a lot of fun, and really enjoyed interacting with the attendees in the crowd.  We signed up a good number of people to the CCT Mailing List, as well as selling a number of books by the associated authors.  I even snuck a few of my own titles in there, and sold a copy.  ;)

So, the weekend ended very well for me.  My spirits have been renewed, and being that the Autumnal Equinox has just passed, a renewed sense of purpose has filled my being.  I hope that this bodes well for my future plans at relocation as well.  I am now refocused, and charging ahead.   

Until next time...

Literacy Across Harlem March, Book Drive, & Community Celebration!!!

I'm hoping to make it out to this event up in Harlem.  It's on this coming Saturday, September 19th.  I've already been sharing it on FB and Twitter.  It's being organized by a great organization called Total Equity Now, based in Harlem.  To find out more about the organization and their upcoming event, please go to their website for more information.

www.totalequitynowharlem.org

Literacy Across Harlem March, Book Drive, & Community Celebration
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Harlem, NY
12pm to 3pm

Please come out and support, and help to spread the word!!!!

Currently Progressing.....

So, I've written SIX books in FIVE years time.  Not bad at all, wouldn't you say?  I'm currently working on books #7, 8, and 9.  I'm also conceptualizing books #10, 11, and 12 (really, I'm considering writing literary adaptations to some screenplays that I've written).  If I continue on the pace that I'm on, I might have #7 published by the end of this year.  Don't know if it's worth it to do that, or wait until early next year to publish it....

Still trying to relocate out of state. I've been doing a lot of online research on my relocation, finding out more about the new city that I want to move to.  I've been looking into jobs, and organizations that are out there, and options to focus on my Universal Africana Literary Arts Movement project;  I think that it would be a better outlet to explore, than focusing on The Consortium of Afro Latino Communities.  I never seem to garner the support that I feel that I deserve pushing that particular project, so I'm putting it on the back burner for now....

I'm hoping to do some traveling this fall, but that's kinda sketchy.  I would need money to travel, which I don't have right now.  I don't currently have a day job, which I really don't want to get one, but I need to have some sort of income.  The book sales aren't going the way I want them too AT ALL, so I need an alternative means to subsist.  I hate being in "starving artist" mode; people know that your shit exists, but don't really want to financially support you.  I know that freedom ain't free, but come the fuck on, people!  I'm sick and tired of wasting my time, talent, and intelligence for someone else's benefit at a regular day job.  But, without that support, I can't survive.

I'm definitely trying to focus my attention more OUTSIDE of New York.  Shit hasn't worked out for me here, so it's time for me to say adios carajo.  This year+ has been a bit of a waste of time, so it's time to search out new horizons.  I'm still working on promoting my literary works via email and social media, whatever the hell that's been worth.  I get "likes" and "favorites", but everyday when I log onto my publishers' website to check my sales, I haven't move not one damn unit; paperback OR ebook.  I need to find a way to target potential readers overseas, cause apparently, niggas here in America DON'T read (and some are even PROUD that they don't read).  Not much of a way to make a living, is it?

I'll keep you all updated on my progress.  I'm hoping to make it out to this Latino cultural event in a few weeks.  At least it will get me the hell out of NYC for a few hours.  Here's to hoping that my books will get me to travel.

Uhuru sase, y paz

Wilmington Hispanic Parade & Festival

Hoping to make it out to this.  It's not an Afro Latino event, but something that I want to attend nonetheless.  I won't be vending here, but I still want to be able to check it out.

Wilmington Hispanic Parade & Festival
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Wilmington, DE
www.facebook.com/nuestrasraicesdelaware

Loiza Festival of El Barrio 2015

Loiza Festival of El Barrio
July 24-26, 2015
E. 105th Street Between Park Ave & Lexington Ave
East Harlem (El Barrio)
www.cccadi.org

Mark your calendars!!!

BE THERE!!!!

International African Arts Festival 2015

Not able to particiapte in the festival this year, but I'll still do what I can to help promote it.  One of my most favorite events of the year, or all time!  Please pass the word, and come out and support!!

I mean...REALLY support!  Not just coming out there...taking pictures...posting them on social media...and then going home.  SUPPORT THE VENDORS!!!

International African Arts Festival
July 2-5, 2015
Brooklyn, NY
www.iaafestival.org

BE THERE!!!!

Towson Black Comic Book Mini-Fest

Was hoping to be able to make it back to the DMV area for this, and (hopefully) vend my book.  Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it down there for this.  Hope that you'll all come out and support this!!!

Towson Black Comic Book Mini-Fest
March 28, 2015
Towson, MD (campus of Towson University)
www.ecbacc.com

Marketplace, cosplay, workshops, panels, and more!!!

FREE ADMISSION!!!!

Autumnal Aspirations

This is the first week of September. 

Summer has come to a close, and the Autumnal Equinox is right around the corner.  September is also the beginning of Latino Heritage Month, and many independence day celebrations throughout Latin America (specifically Central America).  This also marks four months that I've been back in New York.

The Summer has been bittersweet.  I've been lucky enough to experience a good number of the cultural events and institutions that we have in NY since my return.  At the same time, I've vended at a number of cultural and literary events, and haven't done well financially at all.  I've also faced some adversity in trying to organize some of my own literary events.

The one good thing that I can say is that I've been able to network with a number of people that I've met this summer.  Hopefully, that networking will pay off for me, and lead to bookings for some events.  I've been trying to team up with some other authors that I know, and work on creating a joint book signing tour.  I'll let you know how that works out...

At least I'm still writing and networking.  I've been talking to several establishments about getting my works stocked  on their shelves.  Unfortunately, they're either completely unresponsive, or they're taking their sweet time to review my books, and get back to me with a response.

Seriously...do I really need to harass you just to get a simple 'yes' or 'no' answer out of you?!?!  How long does it take you to look at your fucking calendar to see if the date that I requested to hold a book signing event at your store is open or not?!?!  Really, people?!?!?

I can't really say that the majority of the resistance is because I'm 'unknown'; everyone has to start from scratch.   I also can't really blame it on arrogance or egotism on the part of the business owner (or, employee; though I've met a few asswipes).  I know that a lot of this is based on personal relationships, and I'm still getting to know people.  Most of my contacts that were originally here, have either moved on to other things, or have left the state.  At the same time, people should be open to networking with newer talent.

I'm still keeping my head up.  Hopefully, I can get this book singing tour off the ground.  If not, I might have to work on some solo literary events.  I need to gain some sort of traction going.  I'm not trying to go back to the regular corporate workforce.  I just really need to get my foot in the door....

The saga continues....

Musings: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and other deadly encounters with the Boyz in Blue

So I've been a bit quiet about this as of late.  I wanted to have enough time to be able to coherently gather my thoughts, and to properly express what I'm feeling inside.  Let me echo one of my favorite rap artists, 2Pac:

"They claim that I'm violent, just cause I refuse to be silient,
These hypocrites are having fits, cause we're not buying it,
defying it..."

Or, better yet, how about Michael Jackson:

"All I really wanna say...they don't really care about us!"

We've seen this time and time again.  We see the same response by so-called Civil Rights activist/leaders calling for calm and peace.  They make calls to "act accordingly", and not be confrontational, to practice nonviolence as a solution.

FUCK THAT!!!!

We DON'T need calm.  Calm has never brought us any results.  Hell...nonviolence has never been proved to be an effective tactic against the oppressive powers.  If any of you had actually bothered to study history, instead of listening to the bullshit rhetoric of these old ass talking heads on these Sunday morning news shows, you would know that even during the Civil Rights struggle, you had MANY that questioned the tactic of nonviolence after several deadly encounters with police forces in the American Deep South.  That's one of the main reasons for the little splits that happened during the movement.

We don't need more damned discussions.  What we need is organization and mobilization to counteract this oppressive treatment by an ever-increasingly militarized police force.  We've been asleep at the wheel for the last 13 years (and lost our backbone <not to mention our minds> for the last 6 years); it's time to wake up, and face reality.

We need to defend ourselves.  If we learned nothing from the BPP-SD, it was that we needed to protect ourselves from external forces that were detrimental to our community.  Those who focused solely on their community programs and NOT on their self defense program and doctrine have shown that they know NOTHING about that organization, and truly have NO idea what they were about.

Let's cut the crap here.  Michael Brown wasn't some young thug making trouble in the community.  Eric Garner wasn't some local petty criminal making problems for the community.  Neither deserved to be murdered by the police for no other reason than being a Black man on the street.  When Eric Garner was murdered, he was accused of selling 'loosies' on the street, yet NONE were found on him at the crime scene, and WITNESSES were on hand to say that he was breaking up a fight, and had nothing to do with any criminality going on.

We are asleep and spineless.  We are completely apathetic and complacent.  Yeah..you'll have a few people go on social media...pop off at the mouth...and then go back to their bullshit lives, worrying about Scandal, Real Housewives, R&B Divas, and other stupid-ass nonsensical shit.  We NEED TO FIGHT BACK!!!!!!  

We need our own fighting formations.  If you're too much of a pussy to want to stand up and fight, and talk that I-hate-violence bullshit, take your ass somewhere, sit your ass down, and SHUT THE FUCK UP.  We do too much talking, and not enough action.  To echo 2Pac again:

"They claim I'm violent, then violent's what I gotta be"

Or, maybe I should be echoing my peoples Public Enemy:

"Shut 'em down".

I'll even through my own voice into the mix:

"No respect to the Boyz In Blue,
And it's not because I hate ya, it's just the shit I see you do,
Givin' beat downs, buck downs...goin' insane,
Ya runnin' shit, can't even roll through my own domain..."

If they want to militarize the police force, then we need to create OUR OWN community defense force.  There are a number of grassroots organizations in our community that are doing just that, but we choose to dismiss them as if they are crazy, and show them no support.  Don't wait until it is too late, for another incident to hit our community.  Stand up, and FIGHT BACK!!  There is NOTHING wrong with fighting back.  If we can cheer an uprising in a foreign country, then why not cheer and support an (well deserved) uprising on the home front?

Strategize....organize....MOBILIZE!!!!!

Uhuru sase, y paz

Reflections: Musings of a Prodigal Son

So...I've moved back to my hometown of Brooklyn.  I've been back for almost two months now.  I've seen a lot of the changes that have been happening here since I've been gone for the last 7-8 years...

And I DON'T like what I see.

None of these changes were made to benefit the people who were originally here; they were made to benefit the Manhattanites who can no longer afford to live in Manhattan, and the newly arrived transplants who disrespectfully carry themselves as if they are originally FROM here.

You're NOT!!!  Stop fakin' the funk!!!!

A lot of this is what I was fighting against before I moved out of the state.  I saw the handwriting on the wall, so to speak, and saw that people just weren't prepared for what was coming, nor were they interested or inclined in trying to fend it off.  It frustrated me beyond belief, and totally burned me out, among other personal issues that I was dealing with at the time.  It got worse almost immediately after I left.

I've only been gone a short time.  I would understand if I'd been gone a good 10+ years; progress and change is inevitable.  BUT...I've only been gone a short amount of time.  I walk around the neighborhood I grew up in, and don't even recognize it.  The borough that I love has lost it's flavor; it's become so stagnant.  All you see around the way are these mainstream big box stores. The local mom-and-pop shops are falling/have fallen to the wayside. You have interloping transplants boguarding and regulating as if they're actually from here, and putting a kibosh on any and all cultural activities that have been going on in our communities for decades before their arrival.

I DO see people keeping up the fight.  Brothers and sisters are out there trying to maintain our cultural and artistic spaces, or are trying to create new ones for us.  The supreme need is the support of the community so that these traditions and institutions can never be lost to us ever again.  They can try to push us out; I think that it's about time that we started to push back.

When our neighborhoods were defunct and crime ridden, they didn't want to have anything to do with us.  Now that we've brought our communities back, they want to leech onto our space, claim them for their own, and push us out.  They abandoned us with 'white flight' back in the day, and left us to our own recourse, suffering with our lack of capital and resources.  Once we brought our communities back, through grit and determination, investing in our own ethnic arts and businesses, now they want a piece of the action, and take over by pricing us out.  I've recently been to Downtown Brooklyn; it looks like a little Manhattan.  That disgusted me beyond belief.  Brooklyn has IT'S OWN identity; we DON'T NEED nor WANT to be another Manhattan.  Take that bullshit back where you came from!

Now that I'm back, I must help to do my part to keep that original part of us alive.  This cookie cutter persona that permeates throughout this city of great originality must be discarded!  WE are the trendsetters.  WE are the originators.  WE are the ones that set the standards for others to follow across the country, and the world.  WE are the innovators of fashion, music, arts, and style.  We were NEVER followers; we are leaders!

To our youth...step it up, and think outside the box!!  To our elders...provide that proper guidance that our youth need.  This mockery of who we are cannot stand for much longer.  Let's be the trendsetters and innovators that we truly are.  Fuck chasing the almighty dollar; your due compensation will surly come in due time.  Besides, having a lot of money doesn't make you right, nor make you the best.

Reclaim that Brooklyn steelo.

Holla at ya boy!!!!

43rd Annual International African Arts Festival

Brooklyn's prodigal son will be participating in this year's 43rd annual International African Arts Festival, located at Commodore Barry Park in BROOKLYN, NYC!!  I will have a table in their Sankofa section, selling copies of all three of my book titles, along with a fellow comrade and author, Robert Oriyama'at selling copies of his book "Heaven O Hell: Black Omen".

This will be my first MAJOR event to vend at, and I am very excited.  I've always attended the IAAF, and always loved it every time I went.  I would always meet so many different people and entrepreneurs there.  Their products were always well worth the purchase, and have always valued everything I've ever bought from there.  It will now be my greatest honor to be a part of this festival as a vendor.

International African Arts Festival will be held from July 3-6, 2014, located at Commodore Barry Park on Navy Street.  The festival will run from 10am to 9pm all four days.  For more information, please go to their website at www.iaafestival.org, or email the organizers at info@iaafestival.org.

Hope to see you all there!  SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!

Abdias Nascimento Series: Political Resistance, Art, and the Sacred

Continuing the series on the influence of Abdias Nascimento, brought to you by the Afrolatin@ Project/Proyecto Afrolatin@ and the Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute (CCCDAI), this latest discussion will be held:

June 13, 2104
Aaron Davis Hall/ City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue
6:30pm to 8:30pm

FREE and open to the public

Celebration of Arturo Alfonso Schomberg & Afro-Puerto Rican Pride

Representing for my peoples as the Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), and the Afrolatin@ Project!!!  Please come out and support!!!!

Celebration of Arturo Alfonso Schomberg & Afro-Puerto Rican Pride
June 7, 2014,   12pm to 6pm

Schomber Center for Research and Learning
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY

Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Radio Interview II

For all my followers out there,  I will be interviewed on internet radio station "Harambee Radio" on Thursday, May 15th at 8pm.  I will be interviewed by my good friend, author Rom Wills.  I will be talking about my book(s), my activism, the Afro Latino experience, and the African Diaspora in general.  Hope that you all tune in and support!!!

www.harambeeradio.com

Harambee Radio
May 15, 2014
8pm air time.

Garifuna In Peril: Available soon on DVD!!!

The feature-length film "Garifuna In Peril" will be available on DVD in April!!!

"A Garifuna language teacher from a coastal village in Honduras, Central America struggles to preserve his indigenous culture and communal lands in the face of tourism's encroachment and personal betrayal."

Purchase film and more info at www.garifunainperil.com/edu

SPREAD THE WORD AND PLEASE SUPPORT!!!!!!

The Afrolatin@ Project/El Proyecto Afrolatin@ Black History Month events!!!

Representing for my peoples at The Afrolatin@ Project!!!  Mark your calendars!!!

Tuesday February 18, 2014
6pm-8pm (reception from 8-8:30pm)

FREE!!!

The Consortium of Afro Latino Communities: Black History Month 2014

The Universal Negro Improvement Association, in association with the Baltimore City Community College History Club,

Presents....

The Consortium of Afro Latino Communities
Lecture, Panel Discussion, & Book Signing

An educational and politically cultural event, The Consortium aims to highlight, promote, and expose the African roots and heritage of Latino people and culture.  The event will comprise of a Powerpoint lecture, brief panel discussion, and a book signing by participating authors.  Part of the UNIA's Centennial celebrations (1914-2014), this event is meant to help bridge the gap between the two communities, and get us to work and interact with our diasporic brothers and sisters.

The event will be held on Friday, February 7th, from 6pm to 8pm.  It is FREE and OPEN to the public, and is accessible by public transportation.

Baltimore City Community College-Liberty Campus
Gaare Auditorium, Nursing Building
2901 Liberty Heights Avenue