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With Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. He...

Look at our schools and education at our communities, at environment. So our talk will focus on that. I will ask a series of questions and then each speaker will after answering the questions youll have an opportunity to ask questions of them. But first, let me begin by introducing our speakers. Begin with with emily rapp of whos here on my left Emily Raboteau. All right, at the intersection, social and Environmental Justice, Climate Change and her most recent work is lessons for survival. Mother against the apocalypse a memoir on race, climate and Environmental Justice. Her previous books are...

Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Mar...

Infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity in communities big and small. Charter is connecting us. Charter communications, along with these Television Companies , supports cspan2 as a public service. Writers conference. My name is erica boddington and as youve heard on the ceo and founder of langston, a consulting curriculum firm specializes in culturally affirming instruction materials and writing for late night segment called how do we get here on the amber ruffin show . Speaking of how we got, were all here for roundtable entitled the souls of black folk telling our storie...

The African Diaspora through fiction, drama and essay each featured here today will illustrate the ways in which his or her work speak to the complex experiences of black people in literature and i know were at the 16th National Black writers conference, but the speakers youre about to listen to are not living by the pen. Youll witnessing the unraveling of whitewashed history through the eyes of historians like dolan valdez, whose work plants its palms into american soil and pulls out narratives that are imagined and true all at once. Youll be looking at executive producers like jelani cobb, w...