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  African American Museum in Hempstead NY offers lecture on the African American Experience in Early New York

  April 11, 2013 / African American, Authors and Speakers, Business World Index, DiverseCity, National, Spotlight

  On April 13, Dr. Sherrill D. Wilson who  earned a Ph.D. in Urban Anthropology from the New School for Social Research and is  the former Director of the African Burial Ground Archaeological Project in New York City, will deliver a presentation on “The African American Experience in Early New York” at the African American Museum in Hempstead, New York. Dr. Wilson lectures and writes on the subject of the African presence in northern colonial era cities. She has lectured at [...]

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  Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons – A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders

  October 24, 2012 / Authors and Speakers, National

  Amber Communications Group, Inc.’s imprint the award winning Amber Books has published Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons – A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders by Gregory Reed, Esq., CEO and Founder of Keeper of the Word Foundation, with a foreword and epilogue by William Alexander Haley, CEO, Alex Haley Foundation. Obama Talks Back: “provides a rare glimpse into the private letters sent to the President and his accompanied remarks to our young people.” – Carmel Middle School, Charlotte, NC. President [...]

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  Colin L. Powell delivers keynote address at7th Annual Conference for African-American Financial Professionals

  August 27, 2012 / Authors and Speakers, National

  General Colin L. Powell, the 65th U.S. Secretary of State, was the featured keynote speaker at The American College’s 7th Annual Conference for African American Financial Services Professionals which included more than 400 African American financial professionals, at all stages of their careers, representing financial companies from across the United States. General Powell shared his perspectives on leadership and excerpts from his recently published memoir, “It Worked for Me”: In Life and Leadership. Included in the memoir are Powell’s honest [...]

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  Children’s Book Helps Answer Questions on Skin Color and Tolerance

  July 7, 2012 / Authors and Speakers, EDUstation, U News

  “Unexpected” writer and publisher Mayma Raphael hopes her debut children’s book, I Love The Skin I’m In!, will help many other parents answer the questions that young children have about skin color and difference, after her own daughter’s questions inspired her to write the book. The journey to writing the book started for Raphael, 38, when her then 3-year old daughter developed a curiosity about color and began asking questions about why her skin color was different from her friends. [...]

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  “BY LOVE POSSESSED” by Lorna Goodison

  May 27, 2012 / Authors and Speakers, EDUstation

  One of literature’s best kept secrets, internationally renowned and award-winning poet Lorna Goodison, author of the critically-acclaimed memoir From Harvey River, charms once again in BY LOVE POSSESSED (Publication Date: May 29, 2012; $14.99) with prose and characters as vibrant as the country she describes-her homeland Jamaica. ELLE calls BY LOVE POSSESSED “[a] matchless mosaic portrait of a rapidly vanishing postcolonial time and place,” where Goodison “taps deeply into universal experience and offers up these lives with brutal honesty and [...]

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