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Books by
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
My Deepest Affections Are Yours /
Journey to the Motherland
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History
To Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry /
Loving
Black Women
History
to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry
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Overview
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, born 1952 in
San Francisco, graduated from Balboa High School in 1970 and
entered University of San Francisco and received a B.A. in 1974
in Political Science and Ethnic Studies (African American). His
quest for education continued at Golden Gate university in San
Francisco where he received a Masters in Public Administration (MPA)
in 1976.
During his early university days he me Chinwe,
a Nigerian woman who was also a student, whom he eventually
married. After being disillusioned by the racism
encountered while seeking a career in corporate America, he
decided to seek alternatives. In 1977 he and his Chinwe moved to
Nigeria where he took a four-year appointment as a lecturer of
Government at a boy's high school in Benin City.
While in Nigeria he appeared on Nigeria
Television on many occasions, wrote poetry, and in his leisure
time worked on his 1982 novel The Black Expatriate in Africa.
In 1981 Larry and his wife Chinwe returned to
the US. His wife subsequently developed health problems in 1984
and passed away in may 1985. Since then he has mourned his wife,
worked as a community services executive in the OMI community of
San Francisco (twelve years), and an elementary and secondary
teacher. He is currently a high school site leader in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Ukali completed
Journey To The Motherland, from San Francisco To
Benin City and it was published in 2002. Between
2002 and 2004 Larry completed History To Destiny
Through Afrocentric Poetry and a Master’s of Arts in
Educational Administration at San Francisco State
University.
Ukali has completed
a DVD/CD Black Love Spoken Word and Loving
Black Women a book of praise poetry for Black Women
released June-06 and available for purchase at
www.lovingblackwomen.com . In 2007 Ukali
produced The Second Annual African-American Spoken Word
festival in the Main Branch of the San Francisco Pubic
Library in San Francisco, California (2/3/07).
ljredd52@aol.com
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http://www.geocities.com/journeytothemotherland/index.html * * *
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Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
on Facebook /
Larry Ukali
Johnson-Redd om YouTube
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Four Kings of Poetry Program
San
Francisco Public Library Main Koret Theater
100
Larkin Street San Francisco Lower Level
Saturday April 10, 2010 2 PM to 4:30PM
For
more information call 415-425-6711!!!
Terry Moore / Andrea Harris / Larry Ware / Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
http://sanfrancisco.going.com/event-737425;San_Francisco_Kings_of_Poetry#
http://www.youtube.com/user/ukalitheafrican
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Larry
Ukali Johnson-Redd—Listen
to Conversations
of Africa
by
following this link:
conversationsofafrica.asmnetwork.net.
You are invited to
listen to this and join in
the conversation
and make it
a discussion by calling in
and participating at
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Remember
this segment will begin at 8
PM Pacific Standard Time!
Conversations
of Africa
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Charles Chapman,
Executive Director of the Los Angeles Black Books
Expo, poet and author of two books; Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd,
poet and author
of Loving Black Women; Pearl JR author of
Black Women Need Love Too and Arthur Joseph
Graham Ph.D., author of many books. Pictured in Los
Angeles, CA 7/15/07 after their successful "He Said
She Said" Seminar and Book Signing Event at L. A's KRST Unity Center for African Spirituality, sponsored
by The LA Black Book Expo Committee, KRST Center and
Elbow Grease Productions. These authors and others
will appear at the August 10, 2007 LA Black Book
Expo to be held at the Intergenerational Center 3980 Manlo in Los Angeles from 10 AM. To 6 PM. Larry
Ukali Johnson-Redd and Pearl Jr. will appear at the
Lucy Florence Coffeehouse and Cultural Center 3351
W.43 Street Los Angeles, CA as part of a What Black
Men Think Program organized by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
beginning at 7PM to 9PM Thursday 7/19/07.
www.labbx.com
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www.blackwomenneedlovetoo.com /
www.lovingblackwomen.com |
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There is a need for
Jobs, Jobs and more Jobs!
We need JOB Training,
JOB Creation and JOB Placement
programs--a Stimulus II
I
advise President Obama to collect the
one Trillion Dollars and any interest
back as soon as possible from those
recipients who owe before 1 mega bonus
is given out.
. . . I advise President
Obama to implement Stimulus II and claim
his spot in history stimulating the
recovery of the US Economy and relieve
the heavy economic pressure on the Obama
supporters in many cases who are the
most in need of a hand up in this time
of suffering by the lower levels of
American Society. Nation building like
charity begins locally—at home. Stimulus
ll could help turn things around and be
the difference in second term prospects
and winning in 2010 by mobilizing the
base! Momentum for Stimulus ll could
also receive a boost and be the next
priority or second step to winning the
health care overhaul legislation with a
robust public option! If not $400
Billion or $1 trillion President Obama
then propose some significant figure and
go to work on it!—
Larry Johnson-Redd
ljredd52@aol.com |
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Ukali on YouTube
Ukali Flowing at the Second Annual African-American
Spoken Word
Loving Black Women, Part 1
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Live In Nigeria
2005
Larry Ukali Johnson Redd on Lovin Black
Woman
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posted 5 April 2008
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