Benjamin Franklin Short Story Winner
2006 Short Story Bio Is A Winner!
THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN "AUTOBIOGRAPHY PROJECT" WAS A CHALLENGING 300 WORD CONTEST.
ONI'S STORY ABOUT GROWING UP GOING TO THE UPTOWN THEATER WAS ONE OF THE 20 WINNERS.
HER STORY POSTER WAS POSTED AT THE BUS STOP SHELTER AT 20TH & WALNUT ST.
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
Hear Oni in this Award Winning Book!
LISTEN TO ONI SOLO RAP DUNBAR'S "WE WEAR THE MASK" ON PAGE 56,
ALSO FEATURED WITH NIKKI & VAL GRAY WARD ON PAGE. 54, GWENDOLYN BROOKS, "WE REAL COOL" & MARTIN LUTHER KINGS SPEECH ON PAGE 64.
Invite Oni to present a hip hop storytelling session with your students!
Nikki Giovanni introduces Oni to rap Dunbar!
PANTENE TOTAL YOU TOUR
ONI RAPS DUNBAR'S "WE WEAR THE MASK" FOR MC LYTE & AUDIENCE AT CONVENTION CENTER IN PHILADELPHIA, PA
The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia
Philly Scam or Paying It Forward? Is a biographical short story on the joys and dreads of a visit back to Oni's hometown, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly affection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hindsight 2020
Baptized By The Blues, a short story on how Oni's dream to play her bass guitar and present "Love Must Fall" at Morgan Freeman's Juke Joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi....came true!
I Dreamt, MLK Jr. Inside Story & Poem
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An acrostic poem
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Ladies Lunch & Soiree
SISTER WINGS & 'LIAS' MOTHER PERFORMANCE
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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BIG TRIGGER'S SOUND OF JAZZ & POETRY SHOW, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oni's Diary ~ Muse : considering something thoughtfully
Free service is not FREEDOM.
I have a issue with the only national holiday in honor of a AFRICAN man in America, is held up to be a day of FREE services in some communities. We should be doing good in all communities, EVERYDAY.
Yes, it is clear, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is quoted on the benefits of being of service to others. But should it only be on the ONLY African American NATIONAL HOLIDAY?
Why do I say this? Let us consider the fact, Africans who were brought to American, more than any other race of people. Africans in America were forced, gave and suffered FREELY in the bondage's of human slavery.
You would think, if we are to celebrate anything in America it would be to get hired, equal pay, respect and compensation for our work.
Many storyteller/griots in America all know peak employment is from Kwanzaa till the end of February (Black Storyteller's Employment month). This idea of service or in kind donation being taught to school children and sometimes expected for our work, no matter your profession, just doesn't sit well with me.
Why not make Valentine's Day the special day to show LOVE and donate time and energy in service to community?
Africans in America fought for a holiday for MLK JR. and somebody comes up with the dumb idea to make it a day of service to others...oh I get it. African folks are sho' nuff in service folks to eve'rbody sir, OR is it for Caucasians to volunteer in black communities?
Let's not forget, Dr. King went to Memphis to protect the RIGHTS and secure equal pay for the sanitation workers...he did not give his life for them to be in service or volunteer! He was present for them to GET PAID!
Haven't Africans in America worked for free long enough in this country?
In the building of national monuments, WORKED the blood stained plantations, FREE..in the homes of Caucasians!
FREE AIN'T even FREE. So lets not recognize FREE SERVICE on MLK, JR. day.
Let any day WE choose to be a day of service to whomever we please, to give of our talents, to build up our communities, our country, our homes, our neighborhoods, ourselves any day!
FREELY.
What say you?
(C) 1995 Free Service is not Freedom by Oni Lasana
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