Minister Fred Whitlow, II is Black History. Celebrating A Black Hero
Author: Dr. Ramona L. Hyman
Dr. Ramona L. Hyman, writer, speaker, professor, serves as an English Faculty professor at Oakwood University. She earned her PhD from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is the founder of the African American Healers Conference. African American critic Dr. Joyce Joyce says, Hyman [ is a writer who] “challenges readers to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African-American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a Euro- American poetic vernacular. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong . . .intellectual poetic voice.”
Her research and speaking interests are the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, African American poetry, and the Healing Poetic in African American Thought.
Dr. Hyman's literary work has been included in journals and anthologies such as Message, African American Review, African American Pulpit, College Language Association Journal, Obsidian, and Callaloo. She has been anthologized in Amiri and Amini Baraka's An Anthology of African American Women Writers (Marrow Press). She is the author of the collections of poetry, In the Sanctuary of a South and I Am Black America.
Dr. William Ferris, former director of the National Endowment for the Humanities, says“Hyman’s skills as an actor and writer are rare.”
Contact: Ramona L. Hyman, PhD ramona.hyman@yahoo.com
Spectrum’s Adventist Voices–Dr. Hyman
–She grew the American I wanted to be.
African American Healers–A Must Read
The book you are about to read brings together facets of a narrative of epic proportions. It tells about the experience of black Seventh-day Adventists amid the painful history of racial and social discrimination; it chronicles their struggles and showcases their love for their church and fellow human beings and the profound influence of their…
To Him: Thankyou
Beginning a somber day She stares through a stained glass library window–listening for a voice of no expectations He, as anointed grace, answers the spirit She receives his exhale: “How are you?”
Camp Smart Creative Writing Camp in Pictures
Children must have an opportunity to experience safe places to write creatively–Dr. Hyman
“Let America Be America Again: Resisting Silencing and Erasure”
In “Let America Be America Again, #LangstonHughes implores to “[l]et it be the dream it used to be.
Emmett Till
The boy: Till: the child-
“FU_K”: A Lesson Inspired by “No Mam; No Profanity”
. . . .is the word “fu_k” without the weight lodged against it profanity.
Amiri Baraka: A Prayer
He . . . taught us to cherish Blackness . . . .
DuBois/ West: Lessons for Higher Education Institutions
Lessons often rest in the words of historical fore-parents like DuBois. Revisit the “why” of higher education–the “why.” Cornel West is a reminder of “what” needs to be revisited.
Amazing: A Day
12 hours with beautiful people–
Soul angels who invite her . . .
Sanctuary of kindness on the bus
A Prayer for the Dumb
. . . What they do know is they will be with us, always. . . Their Jesus told them (so).
Dr. Hyman's African American Culture Review 