Aberjhani (born Jeffery J. Lloyd July 8, 1957) is an American historian, columnist, novelist, poet, artist, and editor. Although well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, he is perhaps best known as co-author of '' Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance'' and author of ''The River of Winged Dreams''. The encyclopedia won a Choice Academic Title Award in 2004.

Early life and education

Aberjhani grew up in

Savannah, Georgia Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Brita ...

. Upon graduating from Savannah High School in 1975, he studied journalism, creative writing, and the American community at a variety of colleges: Savannah State College (now University);

Eckerd College Eckerd College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Founded in 1958, part of the campus is waterfront (area), waterfront and beach on Boca Ciega ...

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;

Macalester College Macalester College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate institution with an enrollment of 2,142 students in the fall of 2023. The college ha ...

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;

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

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; and the

New College of California New College of California was a college founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President John Leary. It ceased operations in early 2008. New College's main campus was housed in several buildings in the Mission ...

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

. He completed additional studies in journalism at the Fort Benjamin Harrison School of Journalism in

Indianapolis, Indiana Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion ...

Military service

He served a two-year tour of duty with the

U.S. Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 ...

Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a Municipal home rule, home rule city and the county seat, borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior Alaska, interior region of Alaska and the second la ...

; four years in

Suffolk, England Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ...

; and another two years with the USAF Reserves in

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the List of municipalities in South Carolina, most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atla ...

. He studied Equal Opportunity and Human Relations Counseling at the

Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI) is a U.S. Department of Defense joint services school and research laboratory located at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, offering both resident and off-site courses, and working in are ...

Tyndall AFB, Florida Tyndall Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located east of Panama City, Florida. The base was named in honor of World War I pilot 1st Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall. The base operating unit and host wing is the 325th Fighter Wing ( ...

Literary career

The author took the

name A name is a term used for identification by an external observer. They can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context. The entity identified by a name is called its referent. A person ...

Aberjhani as an adult: he says that it came to him in a dream. He continued writing while in the Air Force. He later served from 1994 until 2001 as co-editor of the ''Savannah Literary Journal''. During the same period, he served as a literary reviewer for the Georgia Council for the Arts and held various position with the Poetry Society of Georgia, the oldest such literary organization in the state, and became well known as both a spoken word poet and published author. His national debut came in 1997 with ''ESSENCE Magazine's'' publication of his cover story/essay "This Mother’s Son." The magazine at the time commanded a circulation of 7 million readers. From 1999 to 2005 his poems appeared regularly in ESSENCE, making him one of the most well-known poets in the United States.

Literary influences

Aberjhani has said in interviews that he has been influenced more by

literary movements Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by literary genre, genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide languag ...

than by individual writers. He co-edited an encyclopedia on the

Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the ti ...

, a major 20th-century movement. But others have included

Modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

in general,

Surrealism Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike s ...

, the Beats, the

Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African Americans, African-American-led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. The mov ...

, Postmodernism, and

Existentialism Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that explore the human individual's struggle to lead an authentic life despite the apparent absurdity or incomprehensibility of existence. In examining meaning, purpose, and valu ...

. He has also gone on record as being influenced at different periods by the following authors:

James Baldwin James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel '' Go Tell It on the Mountain'' has been ranked ...

Albert Camus Albert Camus ( ; ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the s ...

W.E.B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relativel ...

, Henry Dumas,

Ralph Ellison Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel '' Invisible Man'', which won the National Book Award in 1953. Ellison wrote '' Shadow and Act'' (1964), a co ...

William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for William Faulkner bibliography, his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in fo ...

Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. ...

Langston Hughes James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harl ...

Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo ...

Federico Garcia Lorca Federico (; ) is a given name and surname. It is a form of Frederick, most commonly found in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. People with the given name Federico Arts and language * Federico Ágreda, Venezuelan composer and DJ * Federico Aguil ...

Dambudzo Marechera Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright, and poet. His short career produced a book of stories, two novels (one published posthumously), a book of plays, prose, and poe ...

Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, so ...

, James Alan McPherson, with whom he shares the same hometown and was featured in the Literary Savannah anthology,

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically accl ...

, Anais Nin, Jalal al-Din Rumi,

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism, literary critic, considered a leading figure in 20th ...

Alice Walker Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awa ...

, and

Margaret Walker Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. ...

Works as visual artist

The writer made his debut as a

visual artist The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

with a photographic documentation of the impact of

Hurricane Matthew Hurricane Matthew was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan ...

on the Historic District of Savannah in 2016. The series included a

black and white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey. It is also known as greyscale in technical settings. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, ...

image originally titled " Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge the Morning After Hurricane Matthew No. 2" and which was used to help promote efforts to change the bridge's name ''Savannah Tribune, "Renaming The Talmadge Bridge: A Free Public Discussion Moderated By The Honorable Dr. Otis S. Johnson" (Aug 16, 2017)''. In 2018 he created the compositional

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

technique and subsequent body of work named after it called "Silk-Featherbrush Artstyle." His art is featured extensively in the book ''Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah'' and on the cover of ''Greeting

Flannery O'Connor Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. O'Connor was a Southern writer who of ...

at the Back Door of My Mind.''

Accomplishments

*2006, Aberjhani won a Readers Poll: Savannah Poet and

Spoken Word Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an oral tradition, ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetic ...

Artist of the Year Award, conducted by ''Connect Savannah''. *2007, Accepted as member of The

Academy of American Poets The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outrea ...

*2009, he was inducted into the Red Room Hall of Fame; Red Room is an online writers community and marketing site based in San Francisco. *In 2011 he received a "

Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Michael Jackson, one of the most culturally significan ...

Tribute Portrait", or ''VIP DOT'' by the artist David Ilan. *2011, Listed as one of "The New Black" published in Best American Poetry, Diann Blakely author, June 13 online edition. *2012, Became a member of

PEN American Center PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922, and headquartered in New York City, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression in the United States and worldwide thr ...

, an affiliate of the worldwide

PEN International PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide professional association, association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. The association ...

organization. *2014, Received and accepted invitation from

LinkedIn LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented Social networking service, social network. It was launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman and Eric Ly. Since December 2016, LinkedIn has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. ...

administrators to join its selection of members and "influencers" publishing on the website. *2019,

Poem Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

“Suzannian Algorithm Finger-Painted on an Abstract Wall” published in 5-Decade Retrospective Catalog commemorating the life and career of Suzanne Jackson and in conjunction with exhibition at Telfair Museums Jepson Center for the Arts.

Humanitarian causes

Aberjhani founded the online ''Creative Thinkers International'' community in September 2007 to support creative nonviolent conflict resolutions in the face of escalating warfare and terrorism following 9/11. Consisting of more than 500 independent artists from around the globe, the community maintains forums on such issues as Human Liberties Around the World and the potential role of the cultural arts in helping to maintain international peace. In March 2013 he announced his support for the September 2013 Global March for Peace and Unity Event. In January 2014 he signed the international Charter for Compassion. He later as a member contributed articles on

Boko Haram Boko Haram, officially known as Jama'at Ahl al-Sunna li al-Da'wa wa al-Jihad (), is a self-proclaimed jihadist militant group based in northeastern Nigeria and also active in Chad, Niger, northern Cameroon, and Mali. In 2016, the group spli ...

, guerrilla contextualization, and social media ethics to the nonprofit organization's Voices Compassion Education Project. In 2016 he joined the ''Span the Gap Movement'' advocating that the name of the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge be changed to one less racially inflammatory. The author first addressed the issue the 2007

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autob ...

''The American Poet Who Went Home Again''.

Bibliography

History and memoir

* Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (nonfiction; 2003 and 2010, with Sandra L. West and Clement Alexander Price,

Facts on File Infobase is an American publishing company, publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets. Infobase operates a number of prominent ...

Infobase Publishing Infobase is an American publisher of databases, reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets. Infobase operates a number of prominent imprints, including ...

) *'' The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois'' (biography, quotations; 2003 and 2010,

Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New Yorkbased publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William''New York Times'' (MARCH 7, 2011). and Roberta Bender Grossman (1946–1992). Kensington is known as "Am ...

and Open Road Media

Philosophical Library Philosophical Library is a publisher, based in United States, specializing in psychology, philosophy, religion, and history. It was founded in 1941 by Dagobert D. Runes with the intention of publishing the works of European intellectuals fleeing ...

Series) *''The American Poet Who Went Home Again'' (memoir; 2007, Black Skylark Singing) *''Journey through the Power of the

Rainbow A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky. The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular ...

Quotations A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is intro ...

from a Life Made Out of Poetry'' (literary reference,

quotations A quotation or quote is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is intro ...

; 2014, Black Skylark Singing) and *''Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah'' (

/history; 2019, Cyberwit.net

Publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

) *''Greeting

at the Back Door of My Mind: Adventures and Misadventures in Literary

Savannah A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach th ...

'' (

literary criticism A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's ...

; 2020, Black Skylark Singing with Lulu Press)

Novel

*''Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World'' (

novel A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...

; 2007, Black Skylark Singing) *''Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player'' (reissue; 2019, Amazon

Kindle Direct Publishing Kindle Direct Publishing is Amazon.com's e-book publishing platform launched in November 2007, concurrently with the first Amazon Kindle device. Originally called Digital Text Platform, the platform allows authors and publishers to publish their ...

)

Short fiction and poetry collections

He has self-published works about childhood experiences in Savannah in both prose and

poetry Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...

as well as being published by different small and university presses. *''I Made My Boy Out of Poetry'' (short fiction and

; 1997/2003, Washington Publications/ iUniverse Publishing) *''Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black'' (poetry; 2006, BSE-Publishing) (

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

and poetry; 2012, 1st U.S. Edition, Black Skylark Singing) *''The Bridge of Silver Wings'' (poetry; 2007, Black Skylark Singing) * Elemental the Power of Illuminated Love featuring paintngs by Luther E. Vann (

and poetry; 2008,

Telfair Museum of Art Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia Hi ...

and Soar Pub) *''The River of Winged Dreams'' (poetry; 2010, Bright Skylark Literary Productions)

Online columnist

The Digital Clarity Group's Examiner.com, under the umbrella of the Anschutz Company and AXS Entertainment, hosted Aberjhani's ''National African-American Art Examiner'' column from July 2009 until June 2016. His topics have included fine art and artists’ biographies, as well as reports on contemporary politics, social network trends, and popular culture. He is noted for a series of articles on the life and death of

, the controversial case of Georgia death-row prisoner Troy Anthony Davis, the presidency of

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. O ...

, and the United Nation's 2011 International Year for People of African Descent. His ''Notebook on Black History Month 2012'' series covered historical and contemporary subjects including included

Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, model, and philanthropist. Commonly referred to as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, the Voice", she is List of awards and no ...

Angela Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of ...

, and

Harry Belafonte Harry Belafonte ( ; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte ...

Articles and essays

* ''Authors Lee Harper’s and

’s New

Books A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mo ...

Likely to Influence

Millennials Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s a ...

’ Dialogues on Race'', Bright Skylark

Literary Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, ...

Essay An essay ( ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a Letter (message), letter, a term paper, paper, an article (publishing), article, a pamphlet, and a s ...

, Feb 2015 * ''A Writer's Journey to Selma

Alabama Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...

'',

Pulse

, Jan 2015 *''Let's Fix It: 7 Steps to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion'', LinkedIn

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

Government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...

Feature, Oct 2014 * Text and Meaning in Michael Jackson's

Xscape (album) ''Xscape'' is a posthumous album by the American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson. It was released on May 9, 2014, by Epic Records, MJJ Music and Sony Music Entertainment, four years after the release of ''Michael'' (2010). L.A. Reid, chairman ...

AXS Entertainment, 5-part Series, June 2014 * Gifts of the Poets: Eugene B. Redmond and

Coleman Barks Coleman Barks (born April 23, 1937) is an American poet and former literature faculty member at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other Engl ...

, Networked Articles, April 2014.
Text and Meaning in Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream Speech
Red Room Networked Articles, August 6, 2013.
World-class Musicians Honor Turkey’s Long Relationship with Jazz
Red Room Networked Articles, May 1, 2013.

Creative Spirit of the

, March 19, 2013. * 47 Percenters and Guerrilla Decontextualization: Dreams and Nightmares Red Room blog article, Oct 1, 2012
Guerrilla Decontextualization and the 2012 Presidential Election Campaign
Red Room Authors & PEN American Center, July 30, 2012
Poetics of Paradigm Dancing in the 2012 Presidential Election Campaign

, June 6, 2012
"Trayvon Martin, Robert Lee, and Millions of Tears Fallen"
editorial on the

killing of Trayvon Martin On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, United States, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, who was visiting his father while suspended from his Miami-area school. Zimmerman, a 28-yea ...

* ''Notebook on Black History Month 2012''
Part 6
: ''The Consecrated Soul of Whitney Houston'' (editorial with poem) Feb 17, 2012. * ''Notebook on Black History Month 2012''
Part 4
: ''The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975'', Author Blog, Feb 15, 2012.
Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis Article Series
Red Room Author Blog, July 2009 – 2011.
Looking at the World through Michael Jackson's Left Eye
''Michael Jackson Tribute Portrait'', Aug 29, 2011 *"President Barack Obama and the Message Beyond the Photograph," ''Examiner'', May 20, 2011 *"What Death of

Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden (10 March 19572 May 2011) was a militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan ''mujahideen'' against the Soviet Union, and support ...

Indicates about Barack Obama’s Leadership," ''Examiner'', May 2, 2011.
Black History Month: What Would Du Bois Do Today?
''AOL Black Voices'', Feb 23, 2011. *"As Egypt Howls and History Tweets," ''Examiner'', Jan 29, 2011. *"Black History Month Enhanced by 2011 International Year for People of African Descent," ''Examiner'', Jan 25, 2011. *"Haiti and Humanity’s Fierce Urgency of Now," ''Examiner'', Jan 22, 2010. *"Work and Soul in

's This Is It," ''Examiner'', Nov 14, 2009. *"The

Way Down South," ''Amazon Short'', May 2007. *"How to Spitfire in the South, ''THE SOUTH'' Magazine," August 2006. *"A Legacy Less Traveled, Dr. Deborah Mack Shines a Light on Early African-American History in Savannah," ''CONNECT SAVANNAH'' News Magazine, May 10, 2006. *"Not Fading Away," on WWII Veteran John Morrison, ''CONNECT SAVANNAH'' News Magazine, Feb 8, 2006. *"Woman to Woman," ''CONNECT SAVANNAH'' News Magazine, Oct 12, 2005. *"The Keepers of Their People's Spirit," ''REDBRIDGE Review Journal'', Oct 10, 2005. *"The Artist Known as Pleasant," ''CONNECT SAVANNAH'' News Magazine, Aug 17, 2005. *"This Mother’s Son," ''ESSENCE Magazine'' cover story, Nov 1997.

Selected titles as editor

* ''Savannah Literary Journal'' (1994–2001, Savannah Writers Workshop) ISSN 1070-6194 * ''What Leaders Believe'' (Polk and White; 2010, Mountain State Univ Press) * ''Savannah, Immortal City, Vol. 1 Civil War Savannah Series'' (Sheehy, Wallace, and Goode-Walker; 2011, Emerald Book Co.) * ''Savannah: Brokers, Bankers, and Bay Lane, Vol. 2 Civil War Savannah Series'' (Sheehy, Wallace, and Goode-Walker; 2012, Emerald Book Co.)

Notable Anthology Inclusions

*''Discover Savannah CD-ROM'' (digital travel guide edited by Angela Lain and Laura Lawton, Crisfield

Multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

, 1996). *''Literary Savannah'' (travel anthology edited by Patrick Allen,

Trinity University Press Trinity University Press is a university press affiliated with Trinity University, which is located in San Antonio, Texas. Trinity University Press was officially founded in 1967 after the university acquired the Illinois-based Principia Press. T ...

; August 2011) Hamilton, Lynn. ''After Midnight''.

Creative Loafing Creative Loafing is an Atlanta-based publisher of an arts and culture news and events newspaper/magazine. The company historically published a weekly publication that once had a 160,000 weekly circulation. While Creative Loafing is no longer p ...

. (Dec 29, 1998): Vol 5, No. 40, cover story *''Black Gold: An Anthology of Black Poetry'' (edited by Ja A. Jahannes, Turner Mayfield Publishing, 2014)

Notes

References

* Allen, Patrick (2011). ''Literary Savannah''. Trinity University Press. July. . p. 277-279, p. 281. * Scott, Dee (2010). "Interview with Aberjhani." ''Authors on the Rise'', February.
Staff. "Savannah Author Inducted Into Red Room Hall of Fame"
''The Savannah Tribune'', 4 November 2009, p. 3. * Nhojj (2008). "Singer Nhojj Interviews Aberjhani." ''MySpace Entertainment Profile.'' 13 October 2008. *Harris, Marlive (2008). "Grits.com Interview with Aberjhani and Luther E. Vann," ''Grits.com'', September 2008. * Sickler, Linda (2008)."ELEMENTAL, At Last" review of ''ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.''CONNECT SAVANNAH'', 4 June cover story. * Weickgenant, Joel (2008). "Words and Paint," ''Savannah News Press,'' 12 Jan. ''Arts Magazine'' cover story. * Barfield, Randall (2007). "Interview with Aberjhani." ''POETRY LIFE AND TIMES'' eZine, July. * Gusby, Kim (2003). "Interview with Aberjhani." ''Coastal Morning Sunrise'' on WTOC, Savannah, GA. October 2003.

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