CULTURAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT BOOK - OFFICIALLY RELEASED!

Greetings Everyone,

Today is the day that my new book, "The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans" is released!! Early today, I received my complementary copies of the book and I am estactic, overjoyed and relieved!! This day is finally here and now it's hard to comprehend that it's really here.

Interestingly, I kind of knew that I was going to receive my books earlier than originally stated by publisher because I started to see more activity at different bookstore sites on the internet about my book. In fact, some bookstore internet sites said that they had already have the books and were selling them. Quite naturally, I thought to myself -- "how is this possible?" My publisher -- Praeger Publishers (www.greenwood.com) -- showed that the book was still not available. I therefore started to speculate and get a bit more excited.

Then I did a websearch on my book and found that it has already been quoted in a OPed column in a law and government newspaper article!! Wow... someone has already quoted a part of my book and I didn't even have my books yet!!

Overall, that felt very good and I have to say that I hope that this book causes ALL OF US TO THINK AND ASK ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT NOT ONLY WHO WE ARE, BUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT & THE POLICIES THA T AFFECT OUR LIVES EVERYDAY!!

Quite frankly, I don't know how the general public and particularly the African American community will react to this book. I have given my heart and soul to this book and tried to present the facts that best way that I could! That's all I have to say for now.

I'm just glad that my books have arrived! I have not opened up the box yet with the books and may not for the entire weekend! Don't be afraid to SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT!

Examples of Cultural Rights Movement Organizations

The Cultural Rights Movement has three major objectives:

1. To embrace, value and respect African American culture and how it can be integrated into the totality of American culture.
2. To embrace, value and respect everyone's cultural traditions, values and history.
3. To start a regional, national and global movement among all cultures of the world that want to assert our rights as human beings and to change government policies that does not include our cultural rights.

Here are some of the Organizations, Movements and Sites that share our Cultural Rights Movement mission and objectives:

• Freedom House
• One Race Global Film Foundation
• Feminist Organization
• Global Fund for Women
• Rainbow Push
• William J. Clinton Foundation
• Care
• Multiracial Families

Check out their websites and support the organization and movement of your choice!

Take a STAND, SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT each and everyday!

It's Time to Speak Up and Speak Out for Cultural Rights!

Happy New Year Everyone,

It's finally here -- 2010! This will definitely be a very pivotal year in America and the world! For some reason during the past year, our country has not moved forward with regards to appreciating and better understanding the rights of people particularly among all the various ethnic populations in the United States.

At some point in time in all of our professional careers, we will have to SPEAK UP AND SPEAK OUT on issues or organizations that deny the rights of the average citizen. Yet also as professionals, we cannot take a stand and protest on everything simply because we have to make a living.

Yet a few years ago in 2004, I decided to join a protest in South Los Angeles when I worked for Charles Drew University of Science & Medicine. The protest and march was in support for NOT CLOSING DREW HOSPITAL AND TRAUMA CLINIC. At the time, there was much social, medical, cultural and political debate in the community and the city (L.A. and South Central) as to the whether the hospital should stay open or close because of all the problems they were experiencing at the hospital. I joined the march along with so many others simply because it would be wrong to let this very important clinic to close in this part of the city which desperately needed trauma care and a hospital. This community is a predominately African American and Latino. Therefore, shutting down this hospital and trauma center would make it more difficult for local citizens to receive medical care.

So here are a few pictures from that 2004 protest and march. Politicians such as the Maxine Waters and former mayor Hahn along with Jesse Jackson Sr. participated in this event. Ironically, although the hospital closed a few years later and it is now scheduled to reopen in 2011 with the support from the University of California!

I can't tell you how rewarding it felt and still feels that I participated in this CULTURAL RIGHTS EVENT! You never know what may happen until you decide to participate. That's what I learned from this event!!

That's another reason why I wrote my latest book, "The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans."

My book is scheduled to launch in February and if you want to read my daily TWEETS, check out my twitter site at: www.twitter.com/culturalrights.