Welcome to the DEMRI web site. Our goal is to support the growth, development, and advancement of Black Communities through the provision of knowledge, information, news and open access to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources.

"All things enduring move through different progressive stages in a process. This process has four (4) phases: Development, Establishment, Maintenance and Refinement.

Maximum Cultural Development warrants that: We must be producers of culture, not passive consumers of it. Cultural development must be intentional and proactive, focused on clear and valid goals with a concrete vision of how to attain them. We are inundated by language, symbols, ideas, and technology, none of which is neutral. We must therefore as a people define where we stand with regard to them and adopt appropriate intellectual and behavioral responses, if we are to be champions and not victims." Marcus W. Tremble

Music can affect our emotions, our intellect, our body and our psychology; lyrics can assuage our loneliness or incite our passions. As such, music is a powerful art form with an aesthetic appeal that is highly dependent upon the culture in which its practiced...