Saturday, May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012: Catalog of Filipino Surnames
Good Morning,
While researching my family history, I discovered an intetestieng site that lists the Filipino surnames of families that were not coverted into Spanish names. The page also contains history that includes changes in pronounciation.
http://www.bibingka.com/names/
Monday, April 9, 2012
Pan-African News Wire: Detroit MLK Day Focuses on Women, Civil Rights & the Struggle Ahead
Catching up on where I've been! Check out the article about Detroit's MLK Day:
Pan-African News Wire: Detroit MLK Day Focuses on Women, Civil Rights & the Struggle Ahead
Mitzi's class paper on the Sept. 2011 Broadside Press reading at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History at http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=23&id=64675
Aurora
Pan-African News Wire: Detroit MLK Day Focuses on Women, Civil Rights & the Struggle Ahead
Mitzi's class paper on the Sept. 2011 Broadside Press reading at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History at http://www.authorsden.com/categories/article_top.asp?catid=23&id=64675
Aurora
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Book Review: Solitude of Five Black Moons
Happy Holiday's Everyone!
Frances Shani Parker submitted the following reveiw of my new poetry book.
Frances Shani Parker submitted the following reveiw of my new poetry book.
Book Review: Solitude of Five Black Moons
Author: Aurora Harris
Book Reviewer: Frances Shani Parker, Author of Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
Solitude of Five Black Moons by Aurora Harris takes readers on a poetic journey through four chapters of emotional highs and lows with stations of enlightenment along the way. Warming up with scenic routes, she explores lyrically pleasant memories in the first chapter titled We Speak the Same Language. Harris, a Black Filipina American, travels onward examining various societal injustices locally and globally. She honors her ancestors from Mississippi to the Philippines, particularly her mother, and ultimately women everywhere in Remember Their Stories, the second chapter.
The word ride progresses with Harris’ historical references portraying the universal as personal, stretching readers’ understanding and empathy for shared suffering and liberation, regardless of location or culture. The Checkpoints chapter speaks to racial discrimination in America, divided Israel and Palestine, and the importance of cohesive communities. When the Poets Became Jukeboxes laments younger so-called poets’ degrading and violent expressions embracing inhumane lifestyles. Harris explains how she changes them through her teachings. Finally, there is the jazz cooldown chapter where readers, well traveled now inside themselves and others, settle into sound satisfaction with A Circular Breathing of Sunrise.
Written with eloquence and sensitivity conveying the author’s profound passion and exemplary writing skills, Solitude of Five Black Moons inspires readers’ common survival on highest levels. Most of all, Aurora Harris’ poetry reminds readers that, no matter where life takes us, we all belong to one another. I highly recommend this literary gift.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Aurora Harris October 2011 Booksignings at Broadside Press and Source Books
Hello Everyone,
Thanks to everyone that attended the Broadside Press September 29th book signing at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. We had a wonderful presentation of Idlewild, MI photos, Dr. Gloria House read from "Home Sweet Sanctuary," the new oral history book of Idlewild, MI residents; and I read from my new book of poetry. Dr. House was accompanied by a cellist and I was accompanied by members of the In The Tradition band. We also had a Meet and Greet reception.
Our event was called: Celebrating 46 Years of Literature & Literacy with Detroit's Historic Broadside Press.
If you missed my opening book signing at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, I will be reading from my new book of poetry "Solitude of Five Black Moons" on Sunday, October 16, 2011at the Broadside Press Poets' Theater, 3:00 p.m. I will be the featured reader with a book signing and open mic to follow. The Broadside Press Poets' Theater will be held in the Grounds Coffee House which is located on the lower level of the Student Union, near the Livernois entrance to the campus.
On Thursday, October 20th, I will be having another book signing at Source Books at 6:00 p.m. The bookstore is located on the corner of Cass and Willis, inside the Spiral Collective bldg. (The former Cobbs Corner), same block as Avalon Bakery.
Hope to see you there.
Aurora
Thanks to everyone that attended the Broadside Press September 29th book signing at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. We had a wonderful presentation of Idlewild, MI photos, Dr. Gloria House read from "Home Sweet Sanctuary," the new oral history book of Idlewild, MI residents; and I read from my new book of poetry. Dr. House was accompanied by a cellist and I was accompanied by members of the In The Tradition band. We also had a Meet and Greet reception.
Our event was called: Celebrating 46 Years of Literature & Literacy with Detroit's Historic Broadside Press.
If you missed my opening book signing at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, I will be reading from my new book of poetry "Solitude of Five Black Moons" on Sunday, October 16, 2011at the Broadside Press Poets' Theater, 3:00 p.m. I will be the featured reader with a book signing and open mic to follow. The Broadside Press Poets' Theater will be held in the Grounds Coffee House which is located on the lower level of the Student Union, near the Livernois entrance to the campus.
On Thursday, October 20th, I will be having another book signing at Source Books at 6:00 p.m. The bookstore is located on the corner of Cass and Willis, inside the Spiral Collective bldg. (The former Cobbs Corner), same block as Avalon Bakery.
Hope to see you there.
Aurora
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Education, Ethnic Studies: Latinos in the U.S.: the assault on Chicana/o studies
Please see the article below regarding what is happening with Ethnic Studies in the U.S.
Latinos in the U.S.: the assault on Chicana/o studies
Latinos in the U.S.: the assault on Chicana/o studies
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Detroit Public Schools Special Olympics Update
I have just confirmed with a Special Olympics worker that the Detroit Public Schools will retain it's Special Olympics program.
The PDF information below concerns transition services for special needs adults age 20-26 in the State of Michigan and a link to a blog for developmentally disabled persons. Copy and paste links into a search engine to see or download the info:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/Spring_11_352310_7.pdf
https://www.oaisd.org/downloads/_acct_/00/00/01/59/maase_concept_paper_20110217_103950_8.pdf
http://theddnewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/michigan-special-education-for-students.html
The PDF information below concerns transition services for special needs adults age 20-26 in the State of Michigan and a link to a blog for developmentally disabled persons. Copy and paste links into a search engine to see or download the info:
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/lara/Spring_11_352310_7.pdf
https://www.oaisd.org/downloads/_acct_/00/00/01/59/maase_concept_paper_20110217_103950_8.pdf
http://theddnewsblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/michigan-special-education-for-students.html
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Press Release: Aurora Harris' New Poetry Book
PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Dr. Gloria House: gloriaaneb@aol.com
Aurora Harris: 313 673-6313 aurora917@gmail.com
Historic Broadside Press celebrated it's forty-sixth anniversary with the publication of a stellar book of poems by Aurora Harris, " Solitude of Five Black Moons."
Ms Harris is a popular award-winning poet, recording artist, former coach of several of Detroit's poetry slam poets, and community activist. She will debut her collection of poems that address the most critical issues if our time.
Her poems are drawn from a foundation of identity, history, and culture that includes family, women's lives, jazz, Detroit culture, and travel. Be sure to attend one of her readings and book signings at one of the following venues:
September 1: Southfield Public Library's Poetry, Pages & Scribes on 26300 Evergreen Southfield ,MI
Sept 9, Ms Harris will be hosting the reading for Ron Allen. 7-9 pm, Thistle Coffee House. 4445 Second Avenue, Detroit
Sept 29, Charles H. Wright Museum 6:00 pm, on 301 East Warren Ave off John R.,Detroit
Ms Harris holds an M.A in Social Foundations of Education from Eastern Michigan University and a B.A in Sociology from Wayne State University. "Solitude of Five Black Moons" is Ms Harris' first full length manuscript collaboratively published by Broadside Press and University of Detroit-Mercy Press. Her poems have appeared in Brooding The Heartlands: Poets of the Midwest; Drum Voices Review; Abandon Automobile; Poet In The House; Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing; New Working Class Studies; Educational Studies: a journal of the American Educational Studies Association; and Michigan Feminist Studies. The recorded version of "Yurugu" is found on the CD "The Tradition Continues" by In The Tradition Jazz Band (2009).
To schedule readings, contact Aurora Harris at 313 673-6313 aurora917@gmail.com
Contact: Dr. Gloria House: gloriaaneb@aol.com
Aurora Harris: 313 673-6313 aurora917@gmail.com
Historic Broadside Press celebrated it's forty-sixth anniversary with the publication of a stellar book of poems by Aurora Harris, " Solitude of Five Black Moons."
Ms Harris is a popular award-winning poet, recording artist, former coach of several of Detroit's poetry slam poets, and community activist. She will debut her collection of poems that address the most critical issues if our time.
Her poems are drawn from a foundation of identity, history, and culture that includes family, women's lives, jazz, Detroit culture, and travel. Be sure to attend one of her readings and book signings at one of the following venues:
September 1: Southfield Public Library's Poetry, Pages & Scribes on 26300 Evergreen Southfield ,MI
Sept 9, Ms Harris will be hosting the reading for Ron Allen. 7-9 pm, Thistle Coffee House. 4445 Second Avenue, Detroit
Sept 29, Charles H. Wright Museum 6:00 pm, on 301 East Warren Ave off John R.,Detroit
Ms Harris holds an M.A in Social Foundations of Education from Eastern Michigan University and a B.A in Sociology from Wayne State University. "Solitude of Five Black Moons" is Ms Harris' first full length manuscript collaboratively published by Broadside Press and University of Detroit-Mercy Press. Her poems have appeared in Brooding The Heartlands: Poets of the Midwest; Drum Voices Review; Abandon Automobile; Poet In The House; Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing; New Working Class Studies; Educational Studies: a journal of the American Educational Studies Association; and Michigan Feminist Studies. The recorded version of "Yurugu" is found on the CD "The Tradition Continues" by In The Tradition Jazz Band (2009).
To schedule readings, contact Aurora Harris at 313 673-6313 aurora917@gmail.com
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