Category: Books
Kiss the Sky: A Novel by Farai Chideya
Sophie Maria Clare Lee doesn’t have the résumé of a rock star. She grew up a book-smart black girl in blue-collar Baltimore, then remade herself at Harvard into a hipster with an appetite for self-destructive men. One of them is the mesmerizing Ari Klein, a charismatic and handsome black-biracial trust-fund baby. Ari is her Harvard [...]
Tavis Smiley Discusses His New Book Accountable: Making America as Good as It’s Promise, Barack Obama and the Traveling Exhibit America I Am: The African American Imprint
Tavis Smiley’s Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise provides real-life examples of how crucial issues — including health care, education, the economy, unequal justice, and the environment — manifest themselves in our communities. The book demonstrates the urgent need to hold politicians and ourselves responsible, because the stakes have never been higher. Accountable [...]
National Black Writer’s Conference Celebrates the Life & Work of Octavia Butler
The National Black Writers Conference Bi-Annual Symposium celebrates the life and work of renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler in a daylong symposium to be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Medgar Evers College- 1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225. “Octavia Butler was the first black woman [...]
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Comes to Harlem
The Friends of Barbara Lee, a group of local women and members of local non-profit organizations invite members of the Harlem and NYC community, as well as local politicians, to a book signing for Congresswoman Barbara Lee where she will discuss and sign her new book, Renegade for Peace and Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks [...]
Book Signings, Poetry and Crafts at Cemi Underground
Thursday, February 19, at 6:30pm Book Signing Ivan Sanchez author of Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-style in the Bronx Admission: Free!
Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx
Beyond the safety of New York City’s news headlines, Next Stop is a train ride into the heart of the Bronx during the late eighties and early nineties at the height of the crack epidemic, a tumultuous time when hip-hop was born and money-hungry slumlords were burning down apartment buildings with tenants still inside. From [...]
Confessions of a Rogue Teacher
There have been many movies and TV shows that attempt to highlight, through drama or comedy, the issues that exist in America’s inner-city schools. But what is it like, really? “Confessions of a Rogue Teacher” by novelist and retired teacher George Colon, employs plot as a vehicle to communicate the realities of life for an [...]
Children of Children Keep Coming — Booking Signing and Performance at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Children of Children Keep Coming is an awe-inspiring contribution to literature. A breathtaking form of poetic expression, this unique work presents a riveting chronicle of the African American experience in the United States. The dramatic odyssey opens with two anonymous slaves running to catch the Freedom Train, where at journey’s end they hope to [...]
Depression in the African American Community: Healing Starts With Us — The Open Book
“The Open Book†explores the mental health epidemic of depression in the African American community: what it looks like, sounds like and feels like. Their aim is to alert, educate and transform individuals suffering from this illness who may be unaware. The evening opens with a screening of the Healing Starts With Us “Open Book†campaign [...]
Wynton Marsalis at Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore
“In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America’s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life-from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business [...]
Schomburg Reading Room Presents Terry McMillan and Edgar Wideman
The Schomburg Center launches a new literary series, The Schomburg Reading Room: Writers on the Cutting Edge, curated by acclaimed author, poet, and journalist, Quincy Troupe which will run from September 2008 through May 2009. The first reading and conversation features authors Terry McMillan and John Edgar Wideman and moderator by Dr. Clyde Taylor. Date: [...]
Joe the Plumber to Write Book
Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher speaks at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. at a Town Square Stop in Washington Park in Sandusky, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) *********** Like all good celebrities, Joe the Plumber has hired a publicity team. The Press Office in Nashville, where clients [...]
Ifill on Race and Rightwing Attacks: “I Find it Curious”
PBS correspondent Gwen Ifill is shown at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, Don Perdue) PBS journalist Gwen Ifill, moderator of the upcoming vice presidential debate, dismissed conservative questions about her impartiality because she is writing a book that includes material on Barack Obama. Ifill [...]
Controversy Surrounds VP Debate Moderator
Gwen Ifill is set to host the VP debate Thursday. Controversy swirled over VP debate moderator Gwen Ifill one day before the vice presidential face-off between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, after new scrutiny was drawn to her upcoming book about Barack Obama. In stories published Wednesday, conservative commentators noted that “Breakthrough: Politics and Race [...]
Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore’s First Voices Series Panel – August 30, 2008
The latest First Voices Series Panel at Hue-Man Bookstore was held on a much more humid day then the previous one. Instead of hurriedly purchasing a cup of hot chocolate to warm myself I ordered chilled water and took a seat in the back. The First Voices Series Panel––held quarterly––is an event that managing owner [...]
My Trip to Ghana — The Pan African Literary Forum
When informing friends, relatives, and co-workers that I was headed to Ghana I received mixed reactions and saw some raised eyebrows. The exclamation of “Wow, that sounds amazing!†was often followed by the question, “What’s in Ghana?†For me this trip was a few years in the making. I had the pleasure of studying with [...]
Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta — Photo Exhibition and Book
The Exhibit To correspond with the recent release of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, The powerHouse Arena is pleased to present an exhibition of work by the photographer Ed Kashi. In the form of “film strips,” ranging in sizes of up to 24 inches wide by 168 [...]
