Worth More than Rubies Celebrates 10 Years with Rawsistaz

They use to say, "If you want to keep something from them put it in a book." Thank God that now we're writing the books! That we is the African American literary community.

Groups like Rawsistaz are what our community is all about. For the last 1o years this literary giant has uplifted, encouraged, and promoted African American Literacy.

The Reading and Writing SISTAZ (R.A.W. SISTAZ) A Literary Group was founded by Tee C. Royal in September 2000 and focuses on reading, writing, and discussing books primarily by African American Authors.

The group was initially to be a small branch off of the SISTAZ (www.sistaz.org) email loop, but because of the overwhelming interest from women outside the organization, they decided on a separate entity to accommodate the incoming requests for membership. They now have the main group and RAW4ALL, their literary hang-out.

Online, Rawsistaz offers more than the normal meeting once a month to discuss books. They have active email dialogue about books they’ve read, upcoming books, literary events, and they even cross over into the writing arena. Some of the members are published authors while some are aspiring to be authors and are encouraged to share their writing tips and works for critique,

Their vision is to “Keep You In the Know” by providing information to the African-American Literary Community regarding books, authors, and other publishing industry news.

We at Worth More than Rubies Salute Tee C Royal and the members of Rawsistaz for a job well done.

To learn more about Rawsistaz click here

Brother to Brother Literary Symposium

Ladies and Gentleman,

I am happy to announce that the Brother 2 Brother Literary Symposium (B2BLS) will be held this year at TSU University . The event is November 21-22, 2008 . We are excited with this great opportunity and are moving forward with great purpose and direction to help the youth of the City of Houston . With your help we can make this event spectacular. We already have the commitment of four major publishing houses to put a book in every person's hand that attends our event. Remember the event is free and open to the public.



That's why we need your assistance. Your tax deductible contribution in the amount of $40.00 will sponsor 4 children. It costs $11.00 per day for our two day event for a child to attend. It costs $52.00 a day to incarcerate a person. Please make your donation by 11-10-2008 . Save a youth from Dropping out of school. The drop-Out rate in Houston is 50% for young men and 37% for young women. Please go to www.b2bls.com and make your donation on the Paypal button or you can send it in to:

B2BLS

PO BOX 752481

Houston , TX 77275



You will get no return on your tax dollars from a person incarcerated. The 2400 youth attending our event, just working part-time at $7.00 per hour can bring into the Houston economy over $16 million dollars.



You can inspire faith, hope, education, and dreams by lending your support. Please give and show you care about our youth and Houston. I am here and dedicated to the Houston Community and to TSU University to shed a positive educational light that beacons our youth to opportunities and possibilities of a great future and productive life.



Don't just talk about it, be about it! Help us help our youth. Help us help Texas . Together we can make a positive difference and spread learning and literacy across this great state. Please feel free to forward to friend and other business owners that can help make this a remarkable event. Please help Houston youth. We are a 501C-3 Organization.



Thanks and I can be reached at 816-914-1560.



Vincent Alexandria

Chairman B2BLS