Phoebe Beasley completed a collaboration with Dr. Maya Angelou in which she created several serigraphs from poems by Langston Hughes for a limited edition book. Dr. Angelou selected the poems and titled the masterful compilation, "Sunrise is Coming After While", and then wrote the forwards on Hughes and Beasley. Phoebe Beasley is an accomplished artist who's in many important collections including Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Maya Angelou and Samuel L. and LaTanya…

Wonderfully engaging, informative, and down to earth, the author Mr. Emmanuel Barbee recounts his life in the book “The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, And Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America” Second Edition is an auto-biography about his personal experience growing up in the inner city of Chicago ghettos.  He provides a road map  about how his organization will end gun violence, poverty, and structural inequality in Urban America.  He wrote…

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For a number of years I’ve been working with architectural practices heavily involved in the delivery of public buildings. Equally, I’ve worked alongside visual artists working on community projects. Although I’ve witnessed a few collaborations between the professions, I do wonder why there hasn’t been more importance placed on developing such partnerships, particularly in designing schools and hospitals. One obvious answer is the need to reduce building costs. Limiting or completely…

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Our Challenge:  SEEING BEAUTY IN DIFFERENCE!

Hampton University Museum’s journal, the International Review of African American Art (IRAAA), is a semi-finalist for the Business Unusual National Challenge  sponsored by EMC Arts. 

Our Challenge project will support the art of seeing beauty in difference.   The “different” beauty that the project will encourage people to see is beauty that deviates…

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The Charles Crossley book project is completed

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The late Fr. Jim Hasse's painting of the Emmaus story from Luke's Gospel was featured in a recent article on Catholic Beat. The painting hangs in St. Leo Church in Cincinnati, and all the people in the paiting are parishioners. Here is the direct link:

Hasse Emmaus Painting Article

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Daphne & I want to wish everyone we know to those we do not know a Happy Mothers Day. Daphne lost her mother shortly after I met her 8 years ago and I lost my mother 2 weeks after we were married in December 2010. We both have friends and love ones who have lost their mothers and know how sad this day can be sometimes. So we're sending everyone a symbolic Rose for all of our mothers, those who are still with us and for those who have made that transition. I've…

Hey BAIA Friends,  I have seen so many wonderful works here and marvel at how…

Denise Turney of Write Money Inc. is one of the business bloggers I interviewed in Secrets of the Black Bloggers.



The purpose of Write Money Inc. is to help you grow your creative business and generate wealth. She states that her purpose is "to provide informational, educational and networking support to business owners, particularly business owners operating in creative…