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Award-Winning Author Harold Michael Harvey to Discuss Fantasy Five

Before the Middle Georgia Regional African American History Committee

Award-winning author Harold Michael Harvey will discuss his latest book, Fantasy Five: An Unimagable History, The Election of Macon’s First Black Councilmembers, on November 20, 2024, at the Washington Memorial Library in the Genealogical and Historical Room at 4:00 pm. read more

ATL METRO RBI Board Taps Harvey

The ATL METRO RBI Board of Directors tapped long-time youth league baseball coach Harold Michael Harvey to serve as a Director on its board. Harvey will begin a two year term on January 24, 2018.

According to John Hollins, Jr. CEO of the group, “The sole purpose of ATL METRO RBI is to bring an awareness of career opportunities in baseball to boys and girls in the Metro Atlanta community who are otherwise underserved when it comes to career opportunities in baseball on the collegiate and professional level.”

The organization has a 501-C-3 non-profit status. It was organized in 2014 and has forged a close working relationship with Major League Baseball and the Atlanta Braves Baseball Franchise through the MLB RBI summer program.

Hollins said that he expects the Atlanta Braves to play a robust part going forward in building the ATL METRO RBI into one of MLB’s top summer programs. The Board will meet at offices located at Sun Trust Park.

Harvey began his youth league coaching career when his wife registered their son Coley to play Little League at Adams Park in Southwest Atlanta. He took charge of a group of six and seven year-olds and vowed to stay with them until they went off to college or to professional baseball.

Ninety-eight percent of Harvey’s players earned either an athletic or academic scholarship. One played quarterback at both Auburn and Georgia Tech, one served as Chairman of the Atlanta Public Schools and one is currently playing professional baseball in The Netherlands.

Harvey, a former college baseball player at Tuskegee Institute is a member of the Pioneer Committee of the National College Baseball Hall of Fame. As a member of the Pioneer Committee he is tasked with identifying Black college baseball players from 1880 through 1975 who merit induction into the Hall of Fame.

Additionally, Harvey writes about baseball at Black College Nines, a website dedicated to preserving the history of Black college baseball.

“I am honored to receive this appointment,” Harvey said.

“The work of this board is an extension of what I tried to do with the Homestead Grays Baseball Academy we ran on limited funds and resources from 1992 through 2003. Now that we have the ears of Major League Baseball and the Atlanta Braves, I am again excited to pitch in and help kids gain the knowledge that could open up a career in the front office of some major league team, or in the broadcast booth, or at the shortstop position in Yankee Stadium,” Harvey said.

“I truly believe that engaging boys and girls in baseball as a career can slow the tide towards gang activity in the Black community,” he said, as he explained why he thinks youth league baseball is important.

The Editors

Harold Michael Harvey is an American novelist and essayist. He is a Contributor at The Hill, SCLC National Magazine, Southern Changes Magazine and Black College Nines. He can be contacted at [email protected]

Saturday Morning With Harold Michael Harvey

Why Saturday Morning and why with Harold Michael Harvey? Let me tell you why!

Saturday morning is that day of the week when the hectic pace of life slows down. It is a day to sleep in, arise late and reflect; on the week that was, the fun to be had over the weekend and the week coming up. It’s that time of the week to savor your cup of coffee, without having to rush off to work, to enjoy the aroma and the taste of the coffee beans on your tongue.

Saturday Morning with Harold Michael Harvey is for the person who seeks enlightenment on the issues which shaped the week they just lived, while they were too busy to grasp the nuances of the news week.

Award winning journalist Harold Michael Harvey, a former practicing lawyer will host a one hour show each Saturday morning that will cover political and social issues on the local, state and national level. Harvey will bring his years of journalism experience, legal education and practical experience gained as a former trial lawyer to bear on the major topics of discussion in our community.

Harvey’s editors at Allvoices, where he received two prizes for political punditry, said of his impact on the world of journalism: “Harvey brings a can-do-spirit to reporting and fresh, intriguing perspectives to his opinion and commentary. His background in law helps readers broaden their horizons and frame the news in ways that have the potential of promoting constructive solutions to contentious issues.”

An editor at the Pundit Project, Darren Richardson, said: “Harold Michael Harvey’s columns have a way of getting to the heart of the matter…”

“Marrying the journalistic style, political nuance and legal acumen of Harold Michael Harvey with Saturday Morning seems so natural, we at Kingdom Business Communication Network Media are surprised that some other media outlet had not thought of it earlier,” said James Green at KBCN.

Saturday Morning selects influencers whose perspectives shape and impact our community. The show airs in the 10:00 am eastern time slot, right about the time that many on the east coast are reaching for that second cup of Joe.

Saturday Morning uses a studio format where guests are interviewed to gain their perspective on the issues. However, quarterly, Saturday Morning takes the studio to local coffee shops, eateries, and pubs to host town hall meetings. The town hall meetings are all about the public; what they think about the issues, what they think the solutions are and what they would do if given the authority to resolve the issue.

Saturday Morning’s mission is to enlighten, inspire and instigate change. Please share your Saturday Morning with us wherever you are on the planet via internet by logging into kbcnmedia.com. If you are too busy to watch, not a problem, just plug in your earphones, listen to the dialogue and carry on with your day. Join us each Saturday Morning with Harold Michael Harvey at 10:00 am beginning January 13, 2018.

Harold Michael Harvey is an American novelist and essayist. He is a Contributor at The Hill, SCLC National Magazine, Southern Changes Magazine and Black College Nines. He can be contacted at [email protected]

Hitting Our Stride At Cascade Publishing House

It is hard to imagine it. The calendar says that Cascade Publishing House has been six years in the world of publishing. We are finally hitting our stride. The idea for Cascade Publishing House came about after I had a bad experience in the traditional world of book publishers.

In late 2009, I signed a publishing contract with a Baltimore Publishing House. It had the indicia of a real publishing house. After receiving a small advance, my manuscript, Paper Puzzle was on its way to becoming a published work of fiction.

I was excited when the galleries came in the mail. My lifelong dream to see a murder mystery that I had begun in the late 1970s was about to become reality.

What I did not realize is that no one at the the big time publishing house was willing to work as hard as I to produce a quality book that would not be a public embarrassment.

This publisher did not care about my ideas for marketing this work. They had their own scheme to get the money they had forked out for this book and were not willing to consider any input that I had on the subject. I had a vested interest in the book, as I stood to profit in proportion to how well it did.

Throughout much of 2010, I attempted to work with this publisher, but seemed to be hitting my head repeatedly upside a brick wall. In the spring of 2011, I decided to attend Book Expo America in New York and meet with my publisher. I came demanding answers.

When the representatives showed little interest in my concerns, I left them with a little piece of my mind. I walked out of the  Jacob Javits Center determined to establish a publishing house that would service writers like myself who could benefit from a small publishing house experience.

After researching the industry, I rolled up my sleeves, negotiated myself out of the agreement I had with the first publisher, set up the Cascade Publishing House and republished Paper Puzzle under its masthead.

Paper Puzzle did well. So well, that I put off writing another book for several years, then in 2015 we published Justice in the Round:Essays on the American Jury System. This book continues to bring a modest profit into Cascade Publishing House.

In 2016 we were ready to offer our publishing services to other writers and agreed to publish a book by Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., President and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference titled, Easier to Obtain than to Maintain: The Globalization of the Civil Rights Movement.

In 2017, we followed the publication of Dr. Steele’s book with a book on relationships by Rodney Battle titled, Old Habits-News Habits: Love and Relationships.

Also, this summer Cascade Publishing House will release two books. The first one is written by Ruby J. Simon about a little known black community in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It will bear the title, Big Bend: Where the Tide Rolls Around Tuscaloosa.

The other offering is a spiritual inspirational book by Valinda Johnson titled, Thus Far the Lord Has Been With Us.

All four of them Steele, Battle, Simon and Johnson are new authors. Their works are important contributions to the history and culture of our nation and would have found their way into publication without the assistance of Cascade Publishing House, but I dare say, the journey would not have been as sweet and as stress free as the roadmap we laid out for them.

We are currently negotiating to write and publish Dr. Steele’s memories which are expected to be published in 2018.

Additionally, we have been approached to write a screenplay on a historic moment in the history of the National Football League, which because of the nature of the event, will never be matched.

After six years in the trenches we are hitting our stride  We are here to help you get that story out of your head, into your computer, into print and ultimately into the hands of your readers.

 

Harold Michael Harvey is an American novelist and essayist, the author of Paper puzzle and Justice in the Round, edited Easier to obtain Than to Maintain: The Globalization of Civil Rights by Charles Steele, Jr.; and the host of Beyond the Law with Harold Michael Harvey. He can be contacted at haroldmichaelharvey.com.

 

 

 

 

Harvey Going Beyond The Law

Finally, I’m going beyond the law. I’ve being trying to redefine myself since that morning in 2003 when I closed my law practice. The moment I locked an empty law office door behind me, I instantly felt different. I  felt the weight of other people’s problems literally fall from my shoulders. They crashed and sank into the carpet outside of Suite 710 at 230 Peachtree Street. It was liberating. read more

Harold Michael Harvey

Harold Michael Harvey is a writer and public speaker. He grew up in Macon, Georgia. In 1965, Harvey integrated one of the local Junior High Schools. Following high school he enrolled into Fort Valley State College where he majored in Political Science. He participated on the Debate Team and was an outfielder on the baseball team. Academically, Harvey was a member of the Dean’s List.

After completing his freshman year of college, Harvey transferred to Tuskegee Institute where he majored in Political Science and was a two year Letterman on the baseball team. He wrote a weekly column in the Campus Digest and graduated with a degree in Political Science. He was a few hours short of having a minor in Philosophy.

Upon graduation, Harvey returned to his hometown, where he worked as a school teacher and a journalist before enrolling into law school at the age of thirty. In law school he joined the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and became Vice President of the Student Government Association in his third year of law school. In his legal career, Harvey organized a successful personal injury law firm and later after meeting Johnnie Cochran, ventured into criminal defense work. In the mid-1990s Harvey represented over 180 college students arrested in the city of Atlanta during a Black College spring break festival known as Freaknic.

He offered this service at no cost to the students who were charged with violating minor city ordinances. In 1996, he was honored by the Gate City Bar Association with the R. E. Thomas, Civil Rights Award. In 1997, he was President of the Gate City Bar Association and instituted a Hall of Fame for Gate City Bar members.

In 2001, Harvey served as a legal commentator for WXIA-TV during the Ray Lewis murder trial. It is believed that it was his commentary that gave the State the impetus to reduce charges against Lewis in the middle of the trial. At the turn of the century, Harvey’s wife became ill and he could no longer maintain an active practice and take care of his family, so he had to close his legal practice.

After his wife’s health challenge stabilized, he got back to his passion for writing literature and in 2010 published his first book, Paper Puzzle, a legal thriller set in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. In 2015, he published a collection of essays on the American justice system titled, Justice in the Round: Essays on the American Jury System.

Also, in 2015. Harvey became a regular commentator on the Tracy Larkin Broadcast Network (http://www.tlbnetwork.com/). Each Saturday at noon in the eastern time zone, Harvey can be heard offering his opinions on the major political and legal issues of the day.

Harold Michael Harvey is an American novelist and essayist, the author of Paper puzzle and Justice in the Round. He can be contacted at haroldmichaelharvey.com

Harvey Amazon Bestselling Author

Amazon has a new bestselling author. Just added to the list of Amazon bestselling authors is Harold Michael Harvey.

Cascade Publishing House (CPH) is pleased to announce that Justice in the Round: Essays on the American Jury System is the number one bestseller on Amazon in the category of books on discrimination and racism. Additionally, it is the number one bestseller in the categories of law, procedure, litigation and juries.

Also, it is the number two bestselling book on law, rules and procedures as they relate to juries. Justice in the Round is in Amazon’s top 100 selling books on the topic of law, constitutional law and human rights, coming in as the number 27 bestseller.

Justice in the Round is written by Harold Michael Harvey. This Amazon bestseller places into historical and political perspective justice in America following the George Zimmerman and Michael Dunn jury trials and the grand jury proceedings in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri and the Eric Garner case in Staten Island, New York.

“One salient fact shapes my frame of reference in these essays: All jurors bring to the jury room their genetics and their sundry environments. By virtue of this fact, we are all subconsciously race-conscious. No one can divorce themselves from their genetic makeup, but we can, if we choose, overcome the environmental conditions that will enable us to be fair to people with different genetics and social standing,” Harvey writes.

The former lawyer draws upon his experience as a trial lawyer in this prophetic summation on race and justice in America.

Harold Michael Harvey, an American novelist and essayist is the author of the legal thriller Paper Puzzle. He writes on legal and political issues at haroldmichaelharvey.com. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in political science from Tuskegee University and a Juris Doctorate from Atlanta Law School. He is the winner of the “Outstanding Work in Newspaper Journalism Award” from the National Newspaper Publishers Association and has won semi-monthly Political Pundits Prizes from Allvoices.com. A former practicing lawyer, Harvey now spends his days reading and writing. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and vegetable garden. He writes wherever the muse takes him.

SOURCES:

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003WV3HZO

Editor’s Note:

This release was written by Cyn Harvey

 

Harvey On Presidential Politics

Harold Michael Harvey, novelist and essayist has agreed to provide political commentary on the 2016 presidential election for the Tracy Larkin Broadcast Network (http://www.tlbnetwork.com/). The internet radio station is based in Montgomery, Alabama. It is the brainchild of Montgomery native, Tracy Larkin. The station is noted for the soulful music it plays and for intellectual conversations  on current issues.

Larkin is known as “The Velvet Hammer,” by Montgomerians. He has provided them with his smooth delivery since the late 1960s. He is renowned for his interview skills. The program will feature Larkin and other members of the “Tan Town Coffee Club” interviewing Harvey.

The interviews will be broadcasted live each Saturday during the 11:00 a. m. – noon (cst) time slot. They will cover the key issues of the week involving the race for the White House.

Harvey is the author of the legal thriller Paper Puzzle and Justice in the Round: Essays on the American Jury System. He earned a political science degree from the legendary Tuskegee Institute and a juris doctorate degree from Atlanta Law School. He is a former civil rights and criminal defense lawyer.

In 2011, Harvey joined several political pundits at allvoices.com to provide commentary on the 2012 presidential election. Also, in 2012, he covered the Democratic National Convention for Allvoices. He won two American Pundit Prizes for his commentary. Additionally, Harvey has provided political and legal commentary for the Financial Breezy Show on the Kingdom Builders Communication Network (www.kbcnetwork.net).

“We are pleased to have Harold Michael Harvey join us on the Tan Town Coffee Club on Saturday mornings,” Larkin said in making the announcement. “His fresh perspective and keen insight into the political and legal issues of our times is enlightening.”

“I am excited about this opportunity,” Harvey said. “I promise to do my research during the week and provide the listeners with a frame of reference that will help them to make sense out of political sound bites from daily news programs.

“We believe he will enlarge our audience. People throughout the country, indeed throughout the world, can tune into TLBN,” Larkin said.

Harold Michael Harvey is an American novelist and essayist, the author of Paper puzzle and Justice in the Round. He can be contacted at haroldmichaelharvey.com.

SOURCES:

Press Release from the Cascade Publishing House for Immediate Release.

Contact Cyn Harvey at haroldmichaelharvey.com