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I’m the Chicago African American issues examiner. I just recently wrote an article where a I speak about the historical influence black people had on skating and bike riding. And why I’m surprised that more of us don’t get involved in these sports. Yes skating is a sport!!!(i wholeheartedly agree with you)
I featured your blog in my article. It’s in a link towards the bottom of the article. I hope you enjoy it. Leave some feed back and tell me what you think.
Peace.
Also do you live in Chicago? You mentioned Harold Washington Library. I love going up there when I get some time. 🙂
Thanks for stopping through. I am actually conducting in-depth research on this topic and I will have a site up by the 2nd week of August for people to share their stories. Just a little history for you. Black people in Chicago could not skate indoors in Chicago until the late 1930s and they did not skate indoors in Gary, IN until the 1950s.
Hello Marcie – I own a roller skating facility in the Chicago area, and have lots of information on the chicago rinks that are gone on our website. The fastest growing segment of our sport besides roller derby is the African American community that not only patronizes their home rinks but travel on the weekends to huge skate parties around the country, most notably Midwest and East Coast. We host an event each July for 1,000 skaters that skate all night long. If you need more information, you can visit our website at http://www.orbitskate.net – click links, Old Chicago rinks and that will get you to the area with the info on rinks like White City, deplorably named appropriately and other rinks that were much more diversified. Feel free to drop me an email if you want to chat. – Sandra
I just found your blog and very excited about it. I listened to your interview with “Matthews” and was very impressed. Thanks for that invitation relating to your Blogging Q&A that is coming up on Saturday March 17, 2012, sounds good to me. I look forward to it!
I’m an amateur book critic and I’ve been blogging since February 2011. In August of that year, I self-published a book of poetry on Lulu.com, and held a reading for it at my local library. I ended up selling about 25 or so copies. It was an interesting experience, and it taught me about promotion and getting your name out there as a writer. In addition to continuing with my book blog, I’m currently writing book reviews for an independent local newspaper. I’d like to think I’m working my way up. If interested, just email me. I don’t have Skype, but I do have MSN messenger, if that helps, or I’m up to doing a phone interview as well.
Hello Marcie
I’m the Chicago African American issues examiner. I just recently wrote an article where a I speak about the historical influence black people had on skating and bike riding. And why I’m surprised that more of us don’t get involved in these sports. Yes skating is a sport!!!(i wholeheartedly agree with you)
Here—>http://www.examiner.com/african-american-issues-in-chicago/blacks-outside-the-box-skates-and-bikes
I featured your blog in my article. It’s in a link towards the bottom of the article. I hope you enjoy it. Leave some feed back and tell me what you think.
Peace.
Also do you live in Chicago? You mentioned Harold Washington Library. I love going up there when I get some time. 🙂
Thanks for stopping through. I am actually conducting in-depth research on this topic and I will have a site up by the 2nd week of August for people to share their stories. Just a little history for you. Black people in Chicago could not skate indoors in Chicago until the late 1930s and they did not skate indoors in Gary, IN until the 1950s.
Hello Marcie – I own a roller skating facility in the Chicago area, and have lots of information on the chicago rinks that are gone on our website. The fastest growing segment of our sport besides roller derby is the African American community that not only patronizes their home rinks but travel on the weekends to huge skate parties around the country, most notably Midwest and East Coast. We host an event each July for 1,000 skaters that skate all night long. If you need more information, you can visit our website at http://www.orbitskate.net – click links, Old Chicago rinks and that will get you to the area with the info on rinks like White City, deplorably named appropriately and other rinks that were much more diversified. Feel free to drop me an email if you want to chat. – Sandra
Hi Sandra,
Thank you for stopping through. I’m going to contact you so we can schedule a time to speak. Talk soon. Marcie
Hello Marcie,
I just found your blog and very excited about it. I listened to your interview with “Matthews” and was very impressed. Thanks for that invitation relating to your Blogging Q&A that is coming up on Saturday March 17, 2012, sounds good to me. I look forward to it!
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I’m an amateur book critic and I’ve been blogging since February 2011. In August of that year, I self-published a book of poetry on Lulu.com, and held a reading for it at my local library. I ended up selling about 25 or so copies. It was an interesting experience, and it taught me about promotion and getting your name out there as a writer. In addition to continuing with my book blog, I’m currently writing book reviews for an independent local newspaper. I’d like to think I’m working my way up. If interested, just email me. I don’t have Skype, but I do have MSN messenger, if that helps, or I’m up to doing a phone interview as well.
Whoops, the link didn’t work. Just go here –> http://zeitgeistreviews.com/
Got it. I’m going to check it out.
Hi there, I’ll be a-mailing you for more details. Thanks for responding.