Empowerment
and self love have been the driving force for D. Anne Browne since she began her writing career in 1979. It was during that
year she began to spread the gospel of health and fitness to the African American community through a series of articles titled,
“For The Health of It.”
By the mid 1980’s D. Anne began to notice how the literature
of the time encouraged an analytical approach to the universality of human development. In response to the needs of the African
American community, D. Anne began to focus her thinking and her writing on the concepts of self actualization.
By the early 1990’s
her first literary attempt was to provide “self help” material which did not endorse a morbid fascination with
the suffering of others as a precursor to development. D. Anne had already realized her dreams of becoming a competitive bodybuilder,
free-lance writer, commercial artist, computer programmer, personal trainer and physical therapist assistant and web site
developer.
Her first book "You Can Get There From Here: Life Lessons On Growth & Self Discovery For The Black Woman", though
not autobiographical was based on many of her personal beliefs. Encouraged by the success of that book, D. Anne began to shift
her thinking to ways of addressing the crisis between African American men and women.
Through careful research and interviews,
D. Anne began to compile a body of work which attempted to address many social issues facing African Americans overall. She
has taken her work a step further by examining the Black male psyche and sexuality, the manifestation of cultural ignorance
in American society and the patterns of self destruction which have plagued African American communities. D. Anne Browne directs
and dedicates her work, That Old Black Magic: Essays, Images and Verse on the Joys of Loving Black Men to African American
men.
In addition to performing the day-to-day operations of the
web sites www.agoodblackman.org and www.agoodblackman.com, D. Anne also conducts empowerment workshops, provides computer
literacy training and web development instructions. The unlimited potential of cyberspace coupled with her continued concern
over the general misconceptions about African American males motivated her to start the not-for-profit male empowerment organization,
A Good Black Man, Inc. (AGBM). The ongoing mission of AGBM includes enhancing the life opportunities for African American
male youth.
