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Black Classic Press is one of the oldest independently owned Black publishers in the United States. The company publishes about six to ten titles annually. Most are historical books dealing with all aspects of the African American, and African Diasporic experience and have been out-of-print for years. We take on as our special mission to bring those books back in to print and make them available to a new generations of readers.
The company began publishing in 1978. Its first books were small pamphlets, printed on a desktop offset printer that founder, W. Paul Coates, purchased for $300.00 and set up in his basement. In 1995, Coates established BCP Digital Printing as an affiliated company of Black Classic Press. BCP Digital prints all books for Black Classic Press and provides print services for other publishers, non-profit and for profit businesses and organizations. Twenty-four years after its founding, BCP Digital Printing is distinguished as the first and only full-service African American owned book printing company in the U.S.
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85 percent of books fail to earn back their advance. Let's fix that …
Re Jan 1 front page article: "Violence persists". To me it seemed a parade of pablumic cliches. Only Council person Ferguson suggested a "reset" and that leaders should "try something new." police union president says "the city faces a crossroads." Please. It always has!
States's Attorney Marilyn Mosby; s excuse- "not necessarily on our part" was inexcusable, and nothing fresh was stated in the Mayor's strategy; his promised committee to address root causes has yet to exist. Who besides him is handling his crime program?
Ancient nostrums about the carrot and the stick endure, hopeful and wistful nothing burgers from the latest PD Commissioner- when I would expect a full out attack on guns and gun traffickers at the very least.
We have some good street level efforts like Cease Fire and Safe Streets and ROCA- why not emphasize their work? They are at the level of the perpetrators.
Johns Hopkins studies gun violence and yet they seem MIA (or unreported on?)- not a peep.
For us who work on non violence on the national level at the Baltimore Non Violence Center- it is appalling to see the violence where we live. Our strategist are not consulted- nor, as far as I can tell, are gun control groups like Moms Demand Action or Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence- both groups who work at Annapolis. Help form, or wisdom from Annapolis also MIA'
Community outrage also seems tepid. If I lost some one to the violence, I'd be much more outspoken.
David Eberhardt, Baltimore Non Violence Center
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'Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries is Florence Tate's memoir and covers her political work and career, including early memories as one of the first Black reporters at the Dayton Daily News, to becoming communications director for political organizations including the ALDCC (African Liberation Day Coordinating Committee) and National Urban Coalition. Also covered are her years as Marion Barry’s communications director during his candidacy and first year as mayor of D.C., and her tenure as press secretary for Rev. Jesse Jackson during his historic 1984 presidential campaign.' -- Black Classic Press, Inc.
I am seeking permission to use the photo of IMHOTEP offered in Dr. Ben's Book Black man of the Nile and his family. In chapter 7 of my book entitled " Resurrecting the Black Mind". The image I refer to would fit perfectly in chapter 7 of my manuscript on its way to book design. I've reached out to Anthony Browder, and Rutgers University for permission to use Ivan Van Sertima's picture on the cover of his book Early America Revisited.
sorry i honestly thought the zoom today ( 11/14) was going to concern the struggle- i was removed -i did not mean to be insulting - i like Black Classic Press and would donate if personally contacted
removed from meeting- why- r u a bridge club? right wingers? or just fund raisers? what? david eberhardt arrested for civil rts
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Hitting shelves just in time for the holidays, check out this upcoming release from St Pete's own Jake-Ann Jones of The Weekly Challenger Newspaper 🤩
"Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: advocate, journalist, and press secretary Florence L. Tate's details her life as an living with clinical , and her work that led to surveillance. Out on Black Classic Press, Inc. Nov. 30."
Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries
At 43 years old, Black Classic Press, Inc. in Arbutus is the country's only Black-owned book company. This past year, social and economic shifts offered the company a big boost, said COO Damani Coates.
Guest host Walter Mosley is joined by W. Paul Coates on episode 149 of The Quarantine Tapes. Paul is a publisher and the founder of Black Classic Press, Inc.
Is it still possible to participate in the Webinar on the 16th. ?If so I have about six kids currently locked out of registering. They are reading “The Brother You Choose”; and are quite excited to see the Authors.The link however is dead. Hope you can make this happen. Thanks!!!
