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C-SPAN'S BOOK TVSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Langston Hughes Auditorium
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
MY FAVORITE BOOK STORY: BRING YOUR STORY!
In Partnership with QBR The Black Book Review
LOCATION: Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium
TIME: 11:00a – 12:15p
HOSTS: Max Rodriguez, Founder – QBR The Black Book Review; The Harlem Book Fair; Roland Barksdale-Hall, Managing Editor - QBR The Black Book Review
There comes a moment in every reader’s life where they recognize themselves as booklover! It’s usually after the fact – after we have devoured many, many books and realize our hunger for the next. It’s an addiction of another sort...
Join Max Rodriguez, Founder and Publisher of QBR The Black Book Review and the Harlem Book Fair, and Managing Editor Roland Barksdale-Hall (booklovers both, of course!), and tell your favorite book story (or your favorite library story) just for fun…just because we love books! We will be giving away books that you would have loved, if they had only been given a chance! What a perfect way to start your book fair day!
C-SPAN'S BOOK TVSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Langston Hughes Auditorium
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
MY FAVORITE BOOK STORY: BRING YOUR STORY!
In Partnership with QBR The Black Book Review
LOCATION: Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium
TIME: 11:00a – 12:15p
HOSTS: Max Rodriguez, Founder – QBR The Black Book Review; The Harlem Book Fair; Roland Barksdale-Hall, Managing Editor - QBR The Black Book Review
There comes a moment in every reader’s life where they recognize themselves as booklover! It’s usually after the fact – after we have devoured many, many books and realize our hunger for the next. It’s an addiction of another sort...
Join Max Rodriguez, Founder and Publisher of QBR The Black Book Review and the Harlem Book Fair, and Managing Editor Roland Barksdale-Hall (booklovers both, of course!), and tell your favorite book story (or your favorite library story) just for fun…just because we love books! We will be giving away books that you would have loved, if they had only been given a chance! What a perfect way to start your book fair day!
AUTHOR TO AUTHOR: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN READER AND NEXT GENERATION PUBLISHING with ZANE, CHARMAINE R. PARKER, and CAROL MACKEY LOCATION: Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium
TIME: 12:30p – 1:45p
Carol Mackey, author and Editor-in-Chief of Black Expressions Book Club, (Sister Girl Devotion: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job) and Zane, author and Publisher, Strebor Books (Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava III), and Charmaine R. Parker, Publishing Director, Strebor Books (The Next Phase of Life)
New York Times bestselling author Zane has become the most successful selling author in contemporary African American publishing, arguably outdistancing stalwarts like Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan. Recognized as a marketing visionary, Zane consistently breaks new ground in multi-platform audience development.
In 2009, 76% of all books released were self-published, while publishing houses reduced the number of books they produced. At a time when fewer books by African American authors are being published by traditional houses, what models can be emulated to ensure the viability of successful African American publishing? Black Expressions Book Club Editor-in-Chief and author Carol Mackey and Charmaine R. Parker, Publishing Director, Strebor Books, and author (The Next Phase of Life) explore the future of black publishing.
TIME: 12:30p – 1:45p
Carol Mackey, author and Editor-in-Chief of Black Expressions Book Club, (Sister Girl Devotion: Keeping Jesus in the Mix on the Job) and Zane, author and Publisher, Strebor Books (Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava III), and Charmaine R. Parker, Publishing Director, Strebor Books (The Next Phase of Life)
New York Times bestselling author Zane has become the most successful selling author in contemporary African American publishing, arguably outdistancing stalwarts like Toni Morrison and Terry McMillan. Recognized as a marketing visionary, Zane consistently breaks new ground in multi-platform audience development.
In 2009, 76% of all books released were self-published, while publishing houses reduced the number of books they produced. At a time when fewer books by African American authors are being published by traditional houses, what models can be emulated to ensure the viability of successful African American publishing? Black Expressions Book Club Editor-in-Chief and author Carol Mackey and Charmaine R. Parker, Publishing Director, Strebor Books, and author (The Next Phase of Life) explore the future of black publishing.
WHO IS FAILING WHOM? BLACK MALES and THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMLOCATION: Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium
TIME: 2:00p – 3:15p
Moderator: Dr. Carlton E. Brown, President, Clark Atlanta University
Panelists: Dr. Akil Khalfani (The Hidden Debate); Baruti Kafele (Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life); Dr. John Michael Lee, Jr. (The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color); Dr. Shaun Harper (Student Engagement in Higher Education)
A disproportionate number of failing schools, across grade levels, are predominantly comprised of poor, racial, and ethnic minority students. These segregated schools tend to have fewer financial, human, and material resources than schools in more affluent areas. By the time students who attend these schools reach high school, the academic challenges they face have been compounded by years of substandard education and low expectations.
Only 55 percent of all black students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma. On average, African American twelfth-grade students read at approximately the same level as white eighth graders. The twelfth-grade reading scores of African American males were significantly lower than those for men and women across every other racial and ethnic group. Public education has failed black America.
The story doesn’t end after high school. For those fortunate enough to be able to go on to college, black male students perform significantly less well than all other students including black female students. Retention and graduation rates also remain much lower. Who holds the accountability? Where are the answers?
DECISION 2012: RACE, DEMOCRACY and THE NEW JIM CROWLOCATION: Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium
TIME: 3:30p – 4:45p
Moderator: Peniel Joseph (Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama)
Panelists: Khalil Gibran Muhammad (The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America); Cornel West (Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism); Fredrick C. Harris (The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics); Sonia Sanchez, author and activist (Shake Loose My Skin)
The wealth gap between white and African American families has more than quadrupled over the course of a generation; the median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households; and at least 35% of African Americans have no assets, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. A recent Brandeis University study found "the wealth gap between white and African Americans has more than quadrupled over the course of a generation" and the Pew study found "nearly half of African Americans born to middle-income parents in the late 1960s plunged into poverty or near-poverty as adults."
In 1994, journalist Ellis Cose surveyed successful, middle-class African-Americans and uncovered an often unspoken rage. Seventeen years later, Cose discovered a major change among middle-class blacks: They have become one of the most optimistic groups in America. The election of Baraka Obama has heightened the optimism. But what happens when a community loses that core of ‘righteous indignation’ that successfully carried it through the Civil Rights era? In ‘paying the price’ for having more, do African Americans – a once-cohesive community – now look to each other less?
How important to African Americans is the re-election of President Barack Obama, and can we truly expect his impact to shift the corrosive cultural and economic tensions that underlie the American fabric?
WHAT PASSES FOR FREEDOM: THE 150TH YEAR CELEBRATION OF THE EMANICIPATION PROCLAMATIONLOCATION: Schomburg/Hughes Auditorium
TIME: 5:00p – 6:15p
MODERATOR: Christopher Paul Moore (Fighting for America: Black Soldiers – The Unsung Heroes of World War II; The Black New Yorkers: 400 Years of African American History)
PANELISTS: Nell Irvin Painter (The History of White People), Obrey Hendricks, Jr. (The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic); Farah Jasmine Griffin (Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative);
African Americans have long-been ambivalent about the idea of ‘freedom’. It sometimes occurs as elusive and a benefit of the privileged. But is privilege and freedom the same? Is the elusiveness of ‘freedom’ an exclusively African American experience? What is the distinction between emancipation and freedom?
This is an exploration of three basic freedoms – freedom of movement (migration); freedom of religion; and the freedom of expression, within the historical price African Americans have paid for freedom – a conversation of returns against perceived investment. To what freedoms are we entitled? What freedoms do we feel have been earned? What ‘freedom’, if any, has yet to be delivered? Should the idea of freedom be re-defined to 21st century realities?
TIME: 5:00p – 6:15p
MODERATOR: Christopher Paul Moore (Fighting for America: Black Soldiers – The Unsung Heroes of World War II; The Black New Yorkers: 400 Years of African American History)
PANELISTS: Nell Irvin Painter (The History of White People), Obrey Hendricks, Jr. (The Universe Bends Toward Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church, and the Body Politic); Farah Jasmine Griffin (Who Set You Flowin'?: The African-American Migration Narrative);
African Americans have long-been ambivalent about the idea of ‘freedom’. It sometimes occurs as elusive and a benefit of the privileged. But is privilege and freedom the same? Is the elusiveness of ‘freedom’ an exclusively African American experience? What is the distinction between emancipation and freedom?
This is an exploration of three basic freedoms – freedom of movement (migration); freedom of religion; and the freedom of expression, within the historical price African Americans have paid for freedom – a conversation of returns against perceived investment. To what freedoms are we entitled? What freedoms do we feel have been earned? What ‘freedom’, if any, has yet to be delivered? Should the idea of freedom be re-defined to 21st century realities?
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