Rachel Z. Ikins  (Photo Provided) Catch up with this multi-talented creative artist whose words and images have the power to captivate and intrigue.  Discover Rachael Ikins and go beyond her talent as she shares who she is and why with bill berry in aaduna's next featured "Conversation"     http://www.aaduna.org/conversations/  *   *   * aaduna - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!  Share with your friends,  "like" our Aaduna-Inc facebook page and follow us on twitter @ aadunaspeaks !  aaduna-Inc  Visit regularly for updates ! @aadunaspeaks

I guess we all like it better when bill goes underground and pursues his out of the public eye hibernation.  And yet, he has become somewhat of a "in the moment" media darling, and a willing and active participant we might add, in promoting the BLACKOUT racist memorabilia exhibition at ArtRage in Syracuse, NY.  Now, do you think his availability to the media is because it is his collection or is there a more profound objective such as trying to shift the public's thinking pertaining to matters of race and culture that he is pushing?  You decide.  All we know is that homeboy has another print interview that just came out and we may share that article in another posting...maybe!  Here is the link to a short radio interview and make sure you see the slideshow that is part of the reporter's narrative: http://waer.org/post/artrage-exhibit-features-artifacts-distorted-perceptions-african-americans ​ Now...Lisa Brennan prepared...

the woman behind the woman.  Catherine Poku explores her life with honesty and a willingness to explore all life facets that makes her who she is...writer, mother, poet.   Catherine Poku, aaduna featured author/poet, Spring 2015 issue Enjoy Catherine's Conversation with bill berry, jr.:   http://www.aaduna.org/conversations/  *   *   * aaduna - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!  Share with your friends,  "like" our Aaduna-Inc facebook page and follow us on twitter @ aadunaspeaks !  aaduna-Inc  Visit regularly for updates ! @aadunaspeaks

aaduna's publisher, bill berry, jr. will share his private collection of racist memorabilia (pertaining to African Americans) with the public starting tomorrow, Saturday, February 6th at ArtRage Gallery, 505 Hawley Avenue in Syracuse, NY.   The exhibition will run through March 19, 2016 and berry will give a 7 PM gallery talk on March 10th at Art Rage. Here is the link to the article in Auburn, NY's local paper, The Citizen : http://auburnpub.com/lifestyles/artrage-gallery-to-showcase-auburn-man-s-collection-of-racist/article_861a3076-5e83-5609-83cf-f8cf13e0bb93.html   *   *   * aaduna - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!  Share with your friends,...

Janet Mason (Photo Provided) Read the enticing conversation that bill berry had with Janet Mason earlier this month:  aaduna.org/conversations/   Enjoy Janet Mason’s fiction, “The Mother,” in aaduna’s summer/fall 2015 issue: http://aaduna.org/summerfall2015/fiction/janet-mason/      *   *   * aaduna - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse online literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!  Share with your friends,  "like" our Aaduna-Inc facebook page and follow us on twitter @ aadunaspeaks !  aaduna-Inc  Visit regularly for updates ! @aadunaspeaks  

"Intelligent, caring, kind" are words that easily describe Peter Nakhid. Get to know him! Peter Nakhid    (Photo provided) Read his Conversation now available on aaduna's website at http://www.aaduna.org/conversations/ View Peter Nakhid’s photography exhibit featured in aaduna’s Penalver Gallery in the spring 2015 issue : http://aaduna.org/spring2015/gallery/the-penalver-gallery/      *   *   * aaduna - a timeless exploration into words and images - is a globally read, multi-cultural, and diverse literary and visual arts journal established in 2010.  Visit us at www.aaduna.org  where we put measurable actions to our words. Help us build community!  Share with your friends,  "like" our Aaduna-Inc facebook page and follow us on twitter @ aadunaspeaks !  aaduna-Inc  Visit regularly for updates ! @aadunaspeaks  

I am willing to bet that if we were able to transition the coming “Conversations” to a televised program, our stories would be compelling, factual, and raw documentaries rather than screenplay contrived soap operas, reality series, or made for TV dramas.     Simply, aaduna provides the platform for real people to chat unscripted and unedited with no advanced knowledge of questions or comments.   And these conversationalists represent the life journeys that you and I and others go through or have gone through on any given day or night. It is always enriching and confirming to hear, bear witness to, and embrace the truth as articulated by other people that we may never meet.   The universality of experiences becomes the resting place where we can find solace, advice, or validation.   Think of “Conversations” as honest exchanges between two people.   You get the opportunity to witness and read a chat…an exchange…a sharing…a conversation, and the...