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Panelists talked about the State of Civil Rights. They talked about the "post-Civil Rights generation", or the people who were born after the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. They argued …

Live coverage from the 10th annual Harlem Book Fair included: Schedule of Coverage: 11:15 am - 12:30 pm ET - 40 Years of African American Publishing panel 12:45 pm - 2:0…

Eric Etheridge talked about his book Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders (Atlas, May 23, 2008). On May 4, 1961, civil rights activists later called Freedom Ride…

Howard Dodson moderated a panel discussion on the bicentennial of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade to the United States. David Eltis talked about the database he helped compile…

Telephone lines were open for comments on the state of Civil Rights in the U.S.

Keli Goff, political commentator and author (Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence), and author Edgar J. Ridley (The Golden Applie: Changing the Structur…

Telephone lines were open for comments on the Harlem Book Fair while various scenes of the vendor tents were shown.

Beverly Manley talked about her autobiography, The Manley Memoirs (Ian Randle Publishers) with Vinette Price. The book is also the story of her marriage to Michael Manley, former Jamaican P…

A panel discussion was held to recognize James Baldwin (1924-1987) and his place within the American literary canon. After the presentations, the panelists responded to questions from member…

Publishers talked about the history of African-American publishing. Topics included the longer than 40-year history of black publishing, the current preponderance of urban literature, the so…

Moderated by Professor Umeh, a panel of foreign-born authors talked about writing from an international perspective. As the American reading public becomes more diverse, more foreign-set boo…