Black Hair Media Forum : BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:59:57 +0000 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:51:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.15 360 Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=354409 <![CDATA[Black Hair Media Forum]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com//forum_images/BHM_Logo_v5_Forum.jpg http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/ <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : No Patti, I mean legally ]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127374.html#10127374 Author: Alias_Avi
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 11:51pm

No Patti, I mean legally LOLStern Smile]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:51:41 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127374.html#10127374 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : Alias_Avi wrote:Am I the...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127373.html#10127373 Author: pattigurlatl
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 11:50pm

Originally posted by Alias_Avi Alias_Avi wrote:

Am I the only one that can't see that pic?


Anyhow, what a multifaceted woman!

p.s. I always forget that Debbie Allen and Phylica Rashad are sisters... and then to come to find out that their mother is amazing in her own right... WOW! Amazing family!

I wish I could be apart of it *starts to stalk Debbie Allen's son* Stern Smile
You are a part of it.
]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:50:26 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127373.html#10127373 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : Am I the only one that can&#039;t...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127372.html#10127372 Author: Alias_Avi
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 11:49pm

Am I the only one that can't see that pic?


Anyhow, what a multifaceted woman!

p.s. I always forget that Debbie Allen and Phylica Rashad are sisters... and then to come to find out that their mother is amazing in her own right... WOW! Amazing family!

I wish I could be apart of it *starts to stalk Debbie Allen's son* Stern Smile
]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:49:37 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127372.html#10127372 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : It&#039;s nice to see the first...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127366.html#10127366 Author: ImThatDiva
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 11:44pm

It's nice to see the first page flooded with these informational posts. Such a beautiful and accomplished family.]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:44:26 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127366.html#10127366 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : EPITOME wrote:Oh! that is...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127357.html#10127357 Author: pattigurlatl
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 11:39pm

Originally posted by EPITOME EPITOME wrote:

Oh! that is just a family of excellence!



]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:39:53 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127357.html#10127357 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : Oh! that is just a family of excellence!...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127332.html#10127332 Author: EPITOME
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 11:19pm

Oh! that is just a family of excellence!]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:19:59 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127332.html#10127332 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : beyonce bump. maybe that will...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127213.html#10127213 Author: pattigurlatl
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 10:23pm

beyonce bump. maybe that will inspire folk to care about people who paved the way for her]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:23:23 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10127213.html#10127213 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : ]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10126803.html#10126803 Author: creole booty
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 7:06pm

]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:06:17 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10126803.html#10126803 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : My cousin-in-law Debbie and...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10126767.html#10126767 Author: Luv2Teach
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 6:47pm

Clap

My cousin-in-law Debbie and my big cousin Viv Nixon. Never met Mrs. Vivian, but their family is the sweetest.
]]> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:47:54 +0000 http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10126767.html#10126767 <![CDATA[BLACKOGRAPHY - Vivian Ayers Allen : Poet and activist probably didn&#039;t...]]> http://Forum.BlackHairMedia.com/blackography-vivian-ayers-allen_topic354409_post10126523.html#10126523 Author: pattigurlatl
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Posted: Feb 07 2013 at 4:53pm

Poet and activist probably didn't know she launched a legacy. Her daughters Phylicia Ayers Allen-Rashad and Debbie Allen-Nixon are successful in their own right.

But Vivian made some news splashes in her hey day.

CHESTER, SC, June 30, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Vivian Ayers-Allen, poet, cultural activist and Founding Director of the "Brainerd Institute Project," a subsidiary of The ADEPT Publications New American Folk Center, Inc., has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for dedication, leadership and excellence in all various aspects of her career.

As director of ADEPT and the Brainerd Institute Project, Ms. Ayers-Allen is responsible for the collection of Brainerd archives, the ongoing development of the Museum-Executive Offices of ADEPT, and Fund Raising and fiscal management in service to these operations. A Pulitzer Award nominee poet, playwright and publisher, she did also once serve as a librarian at Rice University, where she was trained and given faculty status in 1966. Her published works include a first book of poems, "Spice of Dawns" and an allegory of Freedom made analogous to love and to space flight, "HAWK'. The latter work has been honored by NASA in Clear Lake, Texas on numerous occasions. Much poetry has been dispersed through letters and formal presentations sponsored by museums, cultural centers and Universities.

Ms. Ayers-Allen is an alumna of Brainerd Institute. She completed course work in music and the standard curricula at Barber-Scotia College in Concord, NC, and course work in drama at Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, NC. She is the recipient of two Honorary Doctorates awarded by Wilberforce University in Ohio in the year 1995, and by her alma mater, Bennett College, in the year 2006. Her extended studies include fifteen consecutive years of Classical Greek training, and twenty years of independent Mayan research. She hopes to publish very soon a definitive work resulting from her independent research into Mesoamerican Math-Astronomy.

Brainerd Institute (1867 - 1939) was organized for newly liberated African slaves following the American Civil War by the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, USA. The historic estate was purchased by Tony Award winning Actress Phylicia Rashad in 1999 and immediately transferred to the 501 3 corporation, ADEPT, so as to proceed with its redevelopment and resurgence as a cultural and educational center, under the direction of Vivian Ayers-Allen in association with her daughters Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen and a Board of Directors. Debbie Allen and affable spouse, Norman Nixon, the former Laker "Great," have sponsored this move to our native Chester.

"It's a new world!" says the poet Vivian Ayers-Allen," And what is a 'new world'... but the self speaking up in the joy of Self-recognition and expression? Once all America was new."










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