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right is carol mackey, the editor-in-chief of the black expressions book club and the author of [inaudible] my goodness. to her right is the one and only zane. zane we know her work. i liked zane's work because i would have this book here and behind the book i would be reading zane. [laughter] she is what we call a brown dab author. we all know about zane's success. her work has been translated in many languages across the world, and for me that explains the recent growth in population across the world. to her right is charmaine parker, the publishing director of strebor books and au...

>> [inaudible conversations] - max rodriguez founder of the harlem book fair. this is our 14th year. thank you so much for joining us. our theme this year is enlightenment through literacy and with that simply means is that as we get access to information, we can use that information to increase, to enhance the quality of our lives. our family lives, our children's lives and the lives of our communities. the life of america frankly because don't we contribute every day in the things that we do and in this basis that we hold and the work that we hold and the families that we take care...

i urge you to make sure this does not happen. i would say at least half a dozen people, including the former treasurer and other officers, have been saying for some time that we need to find out about grants in the past. was it $100,000? was it $300,000? where did it all go? all that we know is that the treasurer discovered there were secret bank accounts the treasurer knew nothing about. they passed it on to somebody else. there is no accountability. i'm really concerned that this is something being proposed for our district to an organization that is essentially a small group of an...

way punish an institution. >> reporter: now, the fbi is still investigating exactly who might be responsible for these letters. we also don't know if it was a single sender, or if they're completely unrelated incidents. we're also trying to figure out exactly what's inside of these letters. the f biconfirms there is some kind of written message but we still don't know exactly what it says. live outside the commerce building, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> kristin, thank you. now to another story. wrong place, wrong time. a 31-year-old mother driving on a road she travels every day i...

good evening and happy thanksgiving. and if you're watching this broadcast, and we're thankful for that, here's another reason to give thanks tonight. you're obviously not one of the hundreds of thousands of americans already in line tonight to start their holiday shopping. many stores opening this evening, the earliest start ever to black friday. up to 152 million people plan to shop over black friday weekend, expected to spend an estimated $465 billion. the good news? that's up nearly 3% over last year. so much is on the line, with retail making up one-fifth of the american economy...