Novel and Poetry Research and Ghostwriting Assistant Job Listing at The Charles Lampkin Foundation in Compton, CA

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In 1957 Charles Lampkin, an African-American composer and scholar, recorded an album of poetry for the National Association of English Teachers. The album was distributed to high schools across the United States.

Your task is to reintroduce this album to the education community, use it to teach English as a foreign language or as an introduction to African-American poetry.

www.CharlesLampkin.org

We are also offering a ghost writing internship. Your task will be to write the rough draft of a novel loosely based on James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man.

Our poetry writing internship requires familiarity with Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and the Rhyming Dictionary.

Ready to start now? You dont need to wait for further confirmation. Go to this link:

http://huffingtonpostunionofbloggers.org/2012/02/28/black-history-month-amy-goodman-interviews-writer-walter-mosley/

and get started researching and writing at your own pace. Send weekly reports to charleslampkin.internship@gmail.com

Both of these full time, 90 day internships pay $1200 upon completion*

The Charles Lampkin Foundation is a non-profit corporation that aims to promote literacy and cultural identity, with an emphasis on outreach to impressionable young people. The foundation believes that a liberal arts education is essential to achieve peace and harmony worldwide and a solid grounding in classical, jazz and rhythm and blues is essential to a well rounded liberal arts education.

The Charles Lampkin Memorial Foundation and Award Site http://www.charleslampkin.org for the promotion of visual and performing arts, in particular Jazz and Spoken Word; cultural literacy, the education of the young, the promotion of real music and a return to academic excellence.

Herein lies the remarkable story of Charles Lampkin (1913-1989), an African-American pioneer of Spoken Word, radio broadcasting and multi-cultural education in California. Starred in the first Atomic doomsday movie, 5IVE, produced by Arch Oboler in 1951. Nominated for an Academy Award and membership in the Smithsonian Institution. Composed a piano concerto before 1955. An inspiring biography suitable for film adaptation and documentary

These are 180 day internships that offer professional job references by email and by phone and university credit ( all forms and requirements must be provided by you)

* Restrictions apply. Prior arrangement is necessary. $500 is payable upon successful completion of the full time, 90 day internship for ghost writers.