Darryl ml Crosby is a visual designer/musician/writer living in Akron, Ohio. A 21st century renaissance man, Darryl takes a holistic approach to the art of creative communication by working in a number of different areas including print, multimedia, photography, and audio. He combines his formal education in visual communications, with his skill in musical performance and composition to create audio/visual experiences. Using today’s communication technologies such as ActionScript, MySql, CSS, and PHP, he seeks to educate, instigate, and infiltrate. His goals are to create fine and professional media with a community focus. His current work includes: Book design and composition, book cover and poster design, songwriting (jingles) and audio production, Flash development, and database driven web development.

By collaborating with experienced professionals in several creative fields Crosby is able to present media in many different areas through the vehicle of Quadratix.org. With over 15 years as a visual designer, 30 years in music, and 45 years as student of human nature, Crosby is now presenting his unique viewpoints to the world.

Crosby holds a MA from Kent State University’s Visual Communication Design Program and is employed by The Kent State University Press.

False was under privileged as a child. . . He grew up in the suburbs. Having no black playmates or even old heads on the corner to keep him real, he never learned to dance or play basketball. Nor did he ever develop a taste for grits or pigs feet. A reality that haunts him to this day. He did, however, learn the 13 approved variations of the word “n**ger”, including but not limited to: porch monkey, jigaboo, coon, burrhead, spearchucker, spook and jungle bunny. At the tender age of 30, false was cast out onto the mean suburban streets with nothing more than the clothes on his back, a baccalaureate degree from a podunk university, and a sizable savings account from mooching off his folks for years. Thus began his lifelong quest to find the enigmatic and elusive African American (Negras Fuktupis) that he had read about as a youth.

False did eventually make contact with these creatures. He even lived with them in the wild for a number of years. After learning their language and customs he was welcomed into their community. He gained honor and respect for speaking a truth so deep that it seemed false to the uninitiated and was eventually bestowed by them with the name “False One”.

Today False1 spends his time ranting about “the man” in a vainglorious attempt to overcome the physical and psychological wounds of his childhood. Don’t let his peccadillos fool you though. His truth is quite deep.

Kofi Khemet is an educator, reporter and founder of the social network blakfacts.

Mwatabu S. Okantah holds the BA degree in English and African Studies from Kent State University (1976) and the MA in Creative Writing from the City College of New York (1982).  Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University.  He also serves as Director of the Center of Pan-African Culture.  As a poet and motivational speaker, Mr. Okantah has appeared in various locations throughout the US and West Africa.As a performer, he has worked in a variety of musical situations, including time as Griot for the Iroko African Drum & Dance Society and in an ongoing collaboration with the Cavani String Quartet  entitled, “Collage: Poetry and Music.”  He has been the leader of his own performance group, the Muntu Kuntu Energy Ensemble, since 1989.  Honors include Selection to the 5th Edition of Who’s Who Among Teachers in America, a 1999 Kent State University Teaching Council Outstanding Teaching Award, inclusion in the International Who’s Who in Poetry and selection in Outstanding Writers of the 20th Century by the International Biographical Centre.  In 1994, Okantah served as a “Special Guest” guide for Sankofa Tours in Senegal and Ghana.  In 1988, he was named a Rotary International Group Study Exchange Fellow in Nigeria.  Mr. Okantah has also taught at Union College, The Livingston College of Rutgers University, Cleveland State University and Lakeland Community College.