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Author: W. Eric C.
More from Author: W. Eric Croomes is Editor in Chief of TheVillageReport.Net, a quarterly blog-mag that focuses on African American empowerment and host of The Village Report with W. Eric Croomes, a weekly issues and answers talk-show version of the web site on BlogTalk Radio. A writer and playwright based in Irving, Texas, Croomes’ work has been nominated for literary awards in poetry and self-help. Eric is a graduate of Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas, earning a Bachelor of Arts in religion and sociology and is founder and executive director of Millennium Men of Color, a non-profit black male advocacy group. He has written for Man UP, M.U.D.D., Black Men in America.com, and NtheKnow.com. In 2002, Eric self-published Dance in the Dark, Poetic Reflections on Love and Culture, a collection of his original poems and essays on love and relationship in the African-American tradition. Three to Eight, a play examining the hours when most teens become pregnant and most juvenile crime is committed, was Eric’s first theatrical release and debuted at the 2004 Black N Blues one act play festival at the African-American museum in Dallas. Brotha2Brotha, Becoming Healthy Men from the Inside Out, a spiritual primer for men of color, was released in September, 2006. Eric’s next book, Thoughts in Black and Male, is slated for release in fall 2009.
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