Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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BLACK CROSS

BLACK CROSS

Stage Play by Nicole Hammett

Cover Illustrated by Nicole Hammett



A tie-in with the SETAPHIRE SERIES!

BLACK CROSS

The New Negro Movement. Back to Africa Movement. Harlem 1921. Home of the Black family. Black Cross tells the story of the becoming of Alice-Paul Black. Wife of Rufus Black, mother of Willie and Junior Black, daughter of Mamie Johnson.

Born a dark-skinned Negro woman. 

Disallowed the right to dream.

Black Cross tells the story of Alice-Paul Black’s willingness to no longer accept who her husband allows her to be. Who her mother tells her she needs to be. Who the world says that she is. It took a long time for Alice-Paul Black to find her voice. She’s going to tell you who she ain’t.



                

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Commemorating and Celebrating the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey!

SetaPhire: Mandela

What is the purpose of your life? 

What are you supposed to Setaphire to?

Mandela’s journey begins




More than Setaphire’s best friend. Born Francesca Xnonymous in Kingston, Jamaica. On Francesca's 11th birthday, she’s given the truth as a gift. Her name is not Francesca Xnonymous, it’s Mandela Xnonymous. Mandela will leave her bittersweet paradise behind and move to a foreign land to attend a prestigious elite academy.

Modeled on a Black History curriculum and Marcus Garvey's philosophies. The Academy provides support and guidance as the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence!

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SetaPhire

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Commemorating and Celebrating the life of Marcus Mosiah Garvey!

SetaPhire

The First Book In The SetaPhire Series

Quirky, Historical, Educational, and Entertaining!

SetaPhire is a coming-of-age story of an awkward African American adolescent who’s gifted an unusual present on her 11th birthday. The Truth! What is this truth? Her name is not Sapphire. It’s SetaPhire! What is SetaPhire supposed to SET A FIRE to?

The chosen journey begins on their 11th birthday, whisked away to an unfamiliar town and an unknown academy modeled on a Black History curriculum and Marcus Garvey’s philosophies. The academy provides support and guidance. As the instructors wade the chosen through the tempestuous of self-doubt and to the realization that they are Black Beauty and Black Excellence.

    

  

     

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

April Is National Poetry Month!  


 THE LOVE AMIE

(Dedicated to Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey)


MARCUS GARVEY


I wandered far in life's stern way
To seek the good of every day;
But fell among the thieves of Thane,
Who tried to rob my honest name.

I found no brotherhood in man;
But here and there a vicious clan;
No truth, no love, no justice find
Their way into these groups unkind.

But you have been a light to me,
A fond and dear, and true Amie;
So what care I for falsest friend,
When on your love I can depend.

To steal one's wealth is always trash,
O'er which some men are ne'er abash;
But then to steal and blot a name,
It takes the courage of a Thane,

But all they do is only nought,
Because the battle has been fought,
And I have won your love, Amie,
The greatest treasure I can see.

October 31 1927 

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

April Is National Poetry Month!   


 MUSIC IN MY SOUL


MARCUS GARVEY 


There's music in my soul today,
A joy of heart not there before:
This state of conscience I relay
To rich and proud and meek and poor.

There's music in my happy Soul:
From Heaven's realm doth truly flow
This music in my happy Soul,
My conscience tells me rightly so.

My song of joy I sing to you:
Let peace and love forever be
Among ye men of every hue,
Of every land and charted sea.

I crave no other fortune great,
But joy to live in peace with God;
My hopes are fixed on His Estate,
In faith so true as prophets had.

This music in my soul today
I spread in truth with love unfurled;
On waves of cheer it goes, I pray,
To reach around the belted world.

August 23, 1927  

Monday, April 28, 2025

April Is National Poetry Month! 


  OUR DAY!


MARCUS GARVEY 


The Bread of life is gift of God to man,
The blood of Christ is solace grand:
To eat the food of Love Divine,
Brings hope that leads to glory's land.

The glorious Sacrament of Christ
Is tonic to the soul each day:
A ransom in the Blood of love,
Is gain for those who humbly pray.

As sons of Ham we eat the Bread,
And drink the Holy Christian Blood:
Our hope is in the Grace of God,
For sufferings thus understood.

Our day will come with showers true,
For God on evil things will frown:
Almighty love is all we claim,
Though man destroys and keeps us down.

1934  

Sunday, April 27, 2025

April Is National Poetry Month!   

THE BRAVEST SOUL

MARCUS GARVEY


The toil of life is never ending;
It passes from one stage to others;
We live beneath its sombre bending,
And ape the customs of our fathers.

We glory in its radiant joys,
And smile with the everlasting sun;
This eternal change that man employs,
Has been so from Adam's day begun.

The bravest soul truly conquers all,
In seeing God in our fellow man,
This planet is just a spinning ball
Of God's wondrous spiritual plan.

In this life we may know no better;
But in death we pass to Spirit Land,
Where the Soul is free from all fetter,
To join God in His creative hand.

August 22, 1927