Pearls From The Sea

Published with the assistance of BePublished.Org in May 2013, PEARLS FROM THE SEA by David Ellison-Bey is a collection of original poetry and stories compiled over a 50-year period and shared alongside popular and public domain works penned by familiar writers. One who has enjoyed and pursued the truth, David Ellison-Bey of Chicago began record keeping in his 20s as his father and grandfather had done in the hopes of acquiring and sharing true knowledge. Through the messages shared in his debut book concerning the American socioeconomic experience, David seeks to leave each reader with a renewed sense of self-love and shared purpose by the time they finish reading PEARLS FROM THE SEA.

Brother David Ellison-Bey - born August 13, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois - founded the Moorish Cultural Workshop in 1976 in the Moorish Science Temple of America as an outreach organization teaching yoga, spirituality, recycling and gardening. A graduate of New York Vocational High School, he brought in the House of Knowledge and other organizations and individuals who were learning and teaching African history and exhibiting African artifacts. The minister became Assistant National Grand Shiek and continued to use his degree in accounting to further invest in helping the Moors from his internationally-known office called Minciu Sodas, a worldwide laboratory for independent thinkers working for world peace and understanding that the beloved 76-year-old continues to operate to date.