National Black Writers Biennial Symposium 2025
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Wild Seeds Retreat for Writers of Color
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Post 17th NBWC2024 Event
Percival Everett and E. Ethelbert Miller in Discussion & Award Ceremony
The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY presented NBWC 2024 Honoree Percival Everett in Conversation with E. Ethelbert Miller. The discussion focused on many topics including Everett’s novels, philosophical views, writing process, teaching methods and writing craft. Audience members expanded the conversations with their questions.
Writers on Writing with Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Writers on Writing Interview
with Dr. Yolanda Pierce
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Rev. Dr. Yolanda Pierce, the author of "In My Grandmother's House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Professor" (Broadleaf Press, 2021). She is also the Dean of the Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC. She is the first woman to be appointed as Dean in the Divinity School’s 150-year history. In 2016, Pierce served as the Founding Director of the Center for African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Previously, she served as the Founding Director of the Center for Black Church Studies and Associate Professor of Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. Pierce holds degrees from Cornell University and Princeton University.
Writers on Writing Interview
with Chester Higgins, Jr.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Dr. Brenda M. Greene interviews Chester Higgins Jr. , author of Sacred Nile, with Betsy Kissam (BCH, 2021). Dr. Greene and Higgins discuss how he began the work of documenting through photography, the African spiritual and historical influences related to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in Egypt and Ethiopia. Higgins recollects his personal pilgrimages to sacred sites and provides an overview of the visual representations of ancient African rituals and practices. He documents with photographs and text, inscriptions on tombs, 13th-century churches, religious festivals, and the landscape that includes pyramids and the Nile River. Higgins ends his stunning photograph book with the sentence, “In the dance of eternity, we are all spirits passing through form.” This sentence encapsulates the basis of his premise for telling the story of the sacred Nile.
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