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Read more5 Complaints Academics Have About Their Editors
Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education By Rachel Toor OCTOBER 07, 2018 Publishing is midwifery — mostly unglamorous, with many hours spent hunched over manuscripts. While book and journal
Read moreI would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an organization that is doing something that they believe in, even if that organization has only five people, or ten people, or twenty people, or a hundred people. And to look at history and understand that when change takes place it takes place as a result of large, large numbers of people doing little things unbeknownst to one another. And that history is very important for people to not get discouraged. … History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place. -Howard Zinn, historian, playwright, and social activist (24 Aug 1922-2010)
Beautiful Fire on BBC’s Africa Today
Beautiful Fire, a poetry collection by acclaimed Poet and Professor, Joyce Ash enjoyed some airtime on BBC’s Africa Today on August 23, 2018 with Audrey Brown. Joyce Ash echoes the
Read moreHow to Write an Effective Author Bio
How to Write an Effective Author Bio by Debbie Young on August 10, 2018 in Book Promotion & Marketing Your author bio is an important hook to get your readers to engage with who you are as a writer
Read moreSummer and Fall Catalogue 2018
Spears Media Press is committed to increasing awareness on important socio-political, economic and creative developments on the African continent and to promoting alternative voices and positive social change. We aim to tell
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