Truth
Beyond
Illusion
uncovers
rarely
seen
photographs
of
African
American
women
from
the
1860
s
to
the
1950
s,
revealing
their
beauty,
grace,
and
style.
This
book
is
a
collector’s
item
which
confronts
the
Hollywood
images
of
Prissy,
Beulah,
and
Aunt
Jemima,
disclosing
a
reality
where
African
American
women
of
the
late
19
th
century
and
the
early
20
th
century
are
poised,
sophisticated,
and
glamorous.
Glenda
R.Taylor,
a
brilliant
cultural
historian
and
prolific
writer
and
Mary
J.
Taylor,
a
retired
college
administrator,
use
few
words
and
many
images
to
unveil
truth beyond illusion.
Blind
Light
is
an
extraordinary
volume
of
poetry
which
interprets
and
transcribes
metaphysical
reality.
What
happens
when
one
loses
her
vision,
her
eyesight
in
the
midst
of
a
successful
and
challenging
career?
What
does
the
mind
experience?
How
does
the
mind
translate
reality?
Is
survival
possible?
Does
one
gain
access
to
the
sixth
sense?
Blind
Light
answers
all
of
these
questions
and
more.
It
gives
insight
into
that
world
beyond
the
physical.
It
is
an
amazing
flight
into territories rarely explored by the written word.
The
Secrets
of
Success:
The
Black
Man’s
Perspective
is
a
twentieth
century
classic
which
explores
the
hearts,
souls,
and
minds
of
African-American
men.
In
this
rich
and
diverse
collection
of
quotations
and
essays,
Paul
Robeson,
Muhammad
Ali,
Sean
Combs,
Malcom
X,
Bishop
T.
D.
Jakes,
Chris
Rock,
Michael
Jackson,
General
Colin
Powell,
Reverend
Al
Sharpton,
Laurence Fishburne , and many others reveal the secrets of success.
The
Secrets
of
Success
is
a
motivational
masterpiece
that
uses
the
power
of
the
word
and
art
to
inspire
and
uplift.
It
includes
special
essays
by
publisher
Ed
Lewis
and
the
late
Secretary
of
Commerce, Ron Brown.
The
Secrets
of
Success:
Quotations
by
African
American
Achievers
is
a
diverse
collection
of
quotations
by
Muhammad
Ali,
Berry
Gordy,
Oprah
Winfrey,
Michael
Jackson,
Reverend
Jessie
Jackson,
Dennis
Rodman,
LL
Cool
J,
Sinbad,
Colin
Powell,
and
Susan
Taylor.
This
motivational
book tells how they ripped off the chains which bound them and beat the odds.
November
4,2008,
when
Senator
Barack
Obama
was
elected
President
of
the
United
States
of
America,
Black
America
cried.
That
historic
moment
not
only
brought
tears
to
the
eyes
of
Americans
of
African
descent,
but
people
all
over
the
world
cheered,
cried,
and
celebrated.
Everyone
was
shocked
when
they
found
out
that
the
first
African
American
was
elected
to
the
highest
and
most
respected
office
in
the
land.
This
historic
moment
became
a
powerful
symbol
of
Americans
and
the
world's
long
standing
(but
momentarily
weakened
belief)
that
in
America
one
can
beat
the
odds
and
achieve
the
impossible.
It
reestablished
America's
image
as
the
land
of opportunity where anyone, regardless of race, could achieve the American dream.
Click here for excerpt from Black America Cried
Michael
Joseph
Jackson
was
indisputably
a
creative
genius,
an
American
master
who
spent
over
four
decades
producing
a
massive
amount
of
innovative
work
which
not
just
entertained
and
amazed
his
international
audience,
but
played
a
role
in
elevating
public
consciousness.
Broadcast
journalists
and
media
outlets
engage
in
heralding
the
bravura
of
Jackson’s
artistry
while
ridiculing
his
seemingly
idiosyncratic
nature.
Twice
embroiled
in
scandal
by
those
who
sought
profit
from
his
naiveté,
he
was
exonerated
by
the
American
justice
system.
However,
the
growing
tabloid
nature
of
the
media
continues
to
place
more
light
on
his
lifestyle
rather
than
take
a
critical
and
analytical
look
at
what
one
can
learn
from
his
artistic
ability
and
the
impact
that
he
has
had
on
what
is
now
four
generations.
When
Jackson
took
control
of
his
career
and
his
artistry,
he
consciously
used
his
talent,
his
voice
to
make
political
and
social
statements.
Cultural
historian
and
scholar
Glenda
R.
Taylor
challenges
academics
to
look
beyond
the
illusory
walls
of
mass
media
and
critically
analyze
the
artistic
works
of
Michael
Joseph
Jackson.
Jackson
is
acknowledged
as
an
icon
whose
creativity
and
groundbreaking
artistry
appeal
to
an
international
audience,
and
Taylor
believes
that
time
has
come
for
scholars
to
start
a
discourse
beyond
that
of
peer-reviewed
journal
articles.
The
artistry
and
creative
process
of
Jackson,
and
American
master,
are
worthy
of
extensive
academic
research.
Taylor
declares,
I
write
this
book
because in the words of Michael Jackson, I
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
.
The
Jalimusos
Drum
is
a
ground
breaking
work
in
which
eminent
scholar
and
historian,
Glenda
R.
Taylor
argues
that
African
American
female
entertainers
use
autobiographies
to
act
as
cultural
historian/griottes
and
record
American
history.
She
keeps
the
reader
captivated
as
the
autobiographies
of
luminaries
such
as
Aretha
Franklin,
Diana
Ross,
Diahann
Carroll,
Cissy
Houston,
Etta
James,
Ruth
Brown,
and
Whoopi
Goldberg
are
explored.
This
seminal
work
shows
how
many
celebrities
including
Lena
Horne,
Marion
Anderson,
Nina
Simone,
Eartha
Kitt,
and
Josephine
Baker
played
a
significant
role
in
the
Civil
and
Human
Rights
Movements.
Their
unique
and
diverse
perspectives
are
engaging
and
The
Jalimuso’s
Drum
is
an
educational,
yet,
entertaining journey through early twentieth century America.
My
eyes
were
set
on
fire.
I
was
in
in
a
state
of
disbelief.
Gone.
Just
like
that.
I
was
looking
at
the
world
through
a
cloud.
I
was
being
initiated
into
the
society
of
the
walking
dead.
My
optical
nerves
were
inflamed
and
…from
that
that
reality
The
Sojourner
Truth
Method
was
born.
I
had
spent
most
of
my
career
writing.
But,
I
never
thought
of
my
self
as
a
writer.
As
a
nonprofit
executive,
I
wrote
proposals,
procedures
manuals,
strategic
plans,
operational
manuals,
and
everything
that
was
necessary
for
the
successful
development
and
management
of
a
nonprofit
organization.
When
the
lights
went
out
and
my
eyesight
was
consumed
by
a
fog
which
keeps
the
mind
in
a
constant
state
of
acute
awareness,
I
was
tossed
into
a
foreign
realm;
it
was
a
realm
in
which
one
is
conscious
of
her
existence
in
two
worlds:
the
world
of
the
physical
and
the
world
of
the
metaphysical.
The
intangible
begins
speaking
in
tongues
that
I was forced to interpret in order to survive…..
The
purpose
of
The
Sojourner
Truth
Method
is
to
give
writers
a
tool
which
can
be
used
to
replicate
the
inner
monologue
of
the
psyche
and
paint
a
portrait
of
the
invisible
dimensions
of
the
human
experience.
The
human
experience
is
multifaceted.
It
includes
the
dream
state,
the
spirit
world
and/
or
the
world
of
the
invisible;
these
“worlds”
are
too
often
ignored
or
denied…..
This
This
world
of
the
invisible,
the
incorporeal,
the
intangible
is
the
world
of
energy,
that
place
where
quantum
physicists
investigate
source.
It
is
through
The
Sojourner
Truth
Method
that
an
artist
can
give
a
reader
access
to
realms
that
exist
whether
one
accepts
or
denies
this
reality…..
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Books
Glenda
R.
Taylor’s
finely
crafted
volume
of
poetry
aptly
portrays
the
world
of
Jackson,
the
ultimate
showbiz
grandmaster.
As
Taylor,
the
objective
historian,
steps
aside,
Taylor,
the
poet,
enters
a
bevy
of
Jackson’s
emotions
and
dramatizes
the
life
and
loves
of
Jackson,
mirroring
a
life
that
was
glittering
as
it
was
poignant.
Her
use
of
Joseph
Jackson’s
voice
in
the
powerful,
“I
Didn’t
Want
An
Emmett
Till,”
brilliantly
opens
the
door
to
an
alternative
perspective
of
the
mindset
of
Michael’s
father,
a
“Negro”
man,
born
in
a
society
laden
with
Jim
Crow
Consciousness.
It
artfully
challenges
the
current
public
narrative
which
paints
Joseph
Jackson
as
a
cruel
and
abusive
father.
Taylor’s
keen
sensibility
gives
voice
to
the
intangible,
uprooting
normative
modes
of
thought
while
offering
new seeds of perception.
Michael
Jackson
was
a
variegated
individual
whose
public
image,
many
times
contrived,
was
a
mirage
interpreted
through
a
prism
based
upon
normative
behavior
modalities
and
that
of
celebrities
with
a
public
profile.
After
mining
through
the
memoirs,
the
public
records,
and
the
scholarship
and
exiting
the
cave
of
the
normative,
one
comes
to
understand
the
cultivated
mind
of
this
man
who
was
first
and
foremost
a
well-educated
socially
conscious
artist.
Should
the
intellectually
elite
repeatedly
mock
Jackson’s
face,
sarcastically
suggesting
he
looked
like
a
deformed
alien,
an
inhuman
being
or
an
animal,
knowing
the
once
beautiful
boy
turned
man
had
to
face
a
painful
mirror
with
colorless,
spotted
skin
and
a
bald
head;
all
may
be
fair
game
in
a
discourse
on
a
megastar;
yet
is
there
not
educative
value
in
understanding
the
consciousness,
creative
process,
and
artistry
of
this
seemingly
conflicted
man
who
was
able
to
use
his
talents
to,
as
in
an
Horatio
Alger
story,
rise
from
the
dungeons
of
economic
despair
to
unimaginable
heights,
using
his
music
and
dance
performances
to
destroy
the
boundaries
which
segregate
while
skillfully
communicating
messages
which
challenge
complacency
with
oppressive
hegemonic
power
structures?
It
is
my
preference
to
research
and
delineate
his
creative process, a process for which there is no formal disquisition.
Click here for excerpt from Corridors of Genius
Corridors Of Genius
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Michael “Little Joe” Jackson
Waves Of Consciousness
Black America Cried
The Jalimusos Drum
Truth Beyond Illusion
Blind Light
The Secrets of Success
The Secrets of Success
