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Toure explores what it means to be African-American in the United States today. For his book the author spoke with over 100 African Americans from Cornel West and Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Ch…

Toure talked about his book Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness: What It Means to Be Black Now and responded to viewer calls and electronic communications. He was interviewed at the 28th Miami Bo…

A panel talked about the re-issue of the book The Black Book: 35th Anniversary (Random House; November 10, 2009). Originally published in 1974, The Black Book is a collection of over 500 doc…

Panelists discussed what makes a black book black and what the pros and cons are of such a label. Mr. Watkins is the author of Who Killed Tiffany Jones, published by Amistad Press. Mr. Toure…

Panelists talked about the influence of hip-hop music on literature as well as the spoken and written word. Among the topics they addressed were the amount of profanity and violence in the m…