Elizabeth Nunez on Black Writers and Literature
Elizabeth Nunez, English professor at Hunter College (CUNY), discusses black writers and the state of literature from the 18th annual Harlem Book Fair in New York City.
416 viewsElizabeth Nunez, English professor at Hunter College (CUNY), discusses black writers and the state of literature from the 18th annual Harlem Book Fair in New York City.
416 viewsPanelists talked about diversity in book publishing. Panelists included Sandra Michele Echols, president of the New York Black Librarians' Caucus; Stacy Whitman, publisher of Tu Books; child…
594 viewsPanelists talked about author Zora Neale Hurston. Panelists included Cheryl Wall, English professor, Rutgers University; Rich Blint, contributing editor, The James Baldwin Review; Farah Jasm…
1,016 viewsEddie Glaude talked about his book Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, in which he looks at the state of black America. He spoke at the 18th annual Harlem Book …
1,450 viewsMax Rodriguez delivered opening remarks at the 18th annual Harlem Book Fair in New York City.
343 viewsPanelists at the Harlem Book Fair talked about race and politics. Samuel Roberts is the author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation, Nell Irvin Painte…
1,590 viewsPanelists at the Harlem Book Fair talked about economics. Dalton Conley is the author of Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, and Social Policy in America, William Tabb is the autho…
2,066 viewsPanelists at the Harlem Book Fair talked about African-American identity. Nell Irvin Painter is the author of The History of White People, Noliwe Rooks is the author of Hair Raising: Beauty,…
2,810 viewsTroy Lewis talked about his book Gas Money. In this memoir Troy Lewis tells stories of the tiny town of Saluda, Virginia, (population now 769) where he was born and raised and his service in…
1,069 viewsPamela Newkirk discusses her book, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. “Pride and Pr…
1,428 viewsBook TV aired live coverage of the 17th annual Harlem Book Fair from the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
669 viewsTracey Syphax, an ex-offender turned businessperson, talked about ending mass incarceration through educating the community on proper re-entry tools and entrepreneurship for former prisoners…
834 viewsPanelists talked about contemporary moral and political questions, as well as James Baldwin’s statement that, “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, th…
2,443 viewsPanelists talked about alternative approaches, including library acquisitions, alternative book distribution, book festivals, and developing the educational book market, to increase public a…
889 viewsPanelists talked about the influence of the Black Arts Movement on contemporary literature. “The New Urban Aesthetics: The Black Arts Movement, Revised” was a panel at the 2014 Harlem Bo…
1,109 viewsMalaika Adero talked about the state of African-American literature, as well as its history, significance, and traditions. “The State of African American Literature” was a talk at the 201…
1,518 viewsMax Rodriguez and Khalil Muhammad made opening and welcoming remarks at the beginning of session of the 2014 Harlem Book Fair at the Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library…
360 viewsAuthors Mary Frances Berry, Barbara Ransby, and Jeanne Theoharis talked about their books and about civil rights figures Rosa Parks and Eslanda Robeson. “Conversations in Black Freedom: Cele…
2,043 viewsDr. Carl Hart, author of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society; and E.R. Shipp, author of Outrage: The Story Be…
644 viewsPanelists talked about the political and economic progress made by African Americans since the March On Washington fifty years prior. They spoke about historical and contemporary factors tha…
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