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Authors Emily Bernard, Brittany Cooper, and Nicole Dennis-Benn spoke about gender, sexuality, and feminism in Black literature. The National Black Writers Conference sponsored this event at …

Authors Emily Bernard (Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine), Carolyn Forche, (What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance), …

Journalist Dani McClain talked about her book, We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, in which she shared her thoughts on the political power of black women.

Professor Emily Bernard talked about her book, Black Is the Body: Stories of My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine, in which she reflected on her experiences growing up black in …

Emily Bernard talked about the book she edited, Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964, published by Knopf. The book describes the nearly forty…

In a session of the Langston Hughes Centennial Symposium, panelists described the Harlem Renaissance writers, primarily Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. They focused on the political …

Authors at the 2001 Harlem Book Fair spoke about their works. Former California Congressman Ron Dellums talked about his memoir Lying Down with the Lions. Emily Bernard spoke about her new b…