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Lone Star Legacy, a new biannual periodical, will be launching the Premiere 2011 Issue by Writers from Texas and Writers with Connections to Texas.

 

Lone Star Legacy details the struggles, existence, and triumphs of trailblazing African Americans (current and past) throughout Texas, including various periods from their arrival to the present.

 

Several memorable incidents have taken place in Texas ranging from 1960 sit-ins led by Texas Southern University students in Houston to the triumphant victory of 

The Premiere 2009 Debate Team at Wiley College in Marshall.

 

Do you own a successful business in Texas? Share your story with us!

We welcome current/historical entries about Educators/Artists/Dentists/Lawyers

Hairstylists etc..

We also welcome current/historical information about academic institutions/exquisite restaurants/ etc...

 

Preserve your Texan Legacy. Interview your parents/grandparents etc.. and tell us

about their sacrifices.

 

Creative Entries about Texas are welcome as well. Submit an impressive poetic piece.

 

The Premiere 2011 Issue includes entries from:

 

Jericho Brown, PhD

Recipient of the Whiting Writers Award

and the Bunting Fellowship from the 

Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University

 

Horace Maxile, Jr.

Associate Director of Research

Center for Black Music Research

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

 

Edna Garte, PhD

Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Humanities

Oakland Community College

Auburn Hills, Michigan

 

Jeremy Paden, PhD

Assistant Professor of Spanish

Transylvania University

Lexington, Kentucky

 

Maya Therese-Washington

Arts Educator, Actor, Writer

and Filmmaker

Her full length play South of Adams,

West of Figueroa was selected as a 

participant in Congo Square Theatre's

August Wilson Playwriting Initiative 

 

 

Delicia Daniels, M.F.A

Editor in Chief

English Instructor

Wiley College

Marshall, Texas 

 

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