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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. See Highlights from the Interview.
Writers on Writing with Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Writers on Writing Interview
with Maura Cheeks
Originally Aired: Sunday, September 22 and
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Dr. Brenda Greene interviews journalist and writer Maura Cheeks. She has published writing in The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Tin House among others. Acts of Forgiveness, her first novel, explores reparations and the issues and dilemmas that could arise as the country develops the processes and solutions for addressing reparations. Greene and Cheeks discuss these themes, her writing process, and bookselling.
Writers on Writing Interview
with Kadiatou Diallo,
Mother of Amadou Diallo
On February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo was fired upon with 41 rounds. The four officers who shot him were found not guilty. Dr. Greene interviews Kadiatou Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo. They discuss her memoir My Heart Will Cross This Ocean: My Story, My Son (One World, 2004), her son, and the impact that the tragic killing had on her family.
About the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
For 20 years, the programs of the Center for Black Literature (CBL) have had a dynamic impact in the literary field. The highly anticipated author readings and book signings, journals, symposia, conferences, panel discussions, and writing workshops—and the Center’s intellectual and accessible approach to programming—form an integrative approach to programming that sets CBL apart from others. CBL’s events are known for the way they ensure that Black literary scholarship and conversations are valued and sustained.
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