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Favorite Links

www.hushharbors.com

www.reformhealthcare.org

www.DTVoutreach.org

www.judijones.com

Dr. Maurice Henderson has appeared on over 25 talk shows and news programs, including the Ricki Lake Show, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher (formerly on the ABC Network and NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He is an outstanding media personality whose award winning books, critically acclaimed and Off-Broadway produced plays, nationally syndicated columns, popular appearances on the lecture and media circuit has attracted an audience reach that continues to surpass the demographic regularity of ten million viewers, listeners, readers, theatergoers and live event attendees. Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post Philadelphia Inquirer as well as 50 other publications, Henderson has been acknowledged and honored for his transformational stakeholder position in Urban America 's return on Investment through financing the emergence of underground culture into the mass media marketability throughout the mainstream.

Recipient of the Promoter of the Year Award at the Harlem Literary and Arts Conference, he has been recognized by the American Poetry Center, the American Booksellers Association, the Library of Congress' Center for the Book, Your Black Books Guide, the American Biographical Institute, which recently bestowed upon him the Researcher of the Year" Award by Time-Life Books, which has chronicled his cultural studies research as a feature for the Leadership Volume of the Encyclopedia series "African Americans: Voices of Triumph." He has been booked for presentations and speaking engagements at Black Writers Week sponsored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation of the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Hip Hop Generation Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, the Detroit Writers Guild and the Black Business Students Association Conference in Michigan, the African Students Association Conference on Theater as a Political Expression held at Smith College in Massachusetts, the International Black Writers Conference in Chicago, Illinois, the International Black Writers and Artists Association in Oakland and Los Angeles, California, the Newark Writers Collective in New Jersey, Black Writers Institute convenings in Maryland, the Medgar Evers College Black Writers Conference in Brooklyn and the African Poetry theatre Writers Workshop in Queens, New York and the Philadelphia Convenings of the International Children Theater Festival, Annual Celebration of Black Writing, the Charles Blockson Literary Society and Temple University's Pan-African Studies Department, where he received a Faculty Award for the development of a course on Spoken Word and Performance Artistry.

Founder and Organizational Information

National Black Arts Spoken Word Tour (founded 1998)
National Black Authors Tour (founded in 1986),
Hip Hop School for the Business of the Arts & Humanities
Christian Artists Business School
R.E.A.L. ((Research in Exemplary African Literature - founded 1999)

These collaborative ventures represent the pioneer remark of Dr. Henderson,
Angela Kinamore (Essence Magazine Poetry Editor), Reggie Gibson (Writer/actor
for the movie "Love Jones") and Ozzie Jones, Kimmika Wiiliams and Lois Moses, three critically acclaimed writers for the stage, books and records who are acknowledged in the dust jacket of Jill Scott's premier album.
The National Black Authors Tour and The National Black Arts Spoken Word Tour holds dual responsibility for coordinating the print and publish framing of many top writers, and the major of appearances on stage, records, film and television for America's most prominent and emerging artists and outstanding media personalities currently recognized for achieving high standards through performances in the United States, Canada, Europe and Africa.
As the Executive Director of the National Black Authors Tour and Producing Artistic Director of the National Black Arts Spoken Word Tour, I invite you to communicate with me through telephone: (215) 463-4832 or by emails: nationalblackauthorstour@yahoo.com
nationalblackartsspokenwordtour@yahoo.com

A Note from Dr. Henderson
I hope to hear from you soon, until then - don't forget to catch our touring artists in places such as Missouri, South Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Ohio, New York, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Pennsylvania, Florida, California, Washington, D.C., Louisiana, Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey and the other places of domestic and abroad.
Maurice Henderson

MY SILENCES HAVE NOT PROTECTED ME
(from The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action, Sister Outsider)
by AUDRE LORDE
"I have come to believe over and over again, that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.... My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you...and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken."..Audre Lorde