Percival Everett (of American Fiction fame) Will Be Honored at the 17th National Black Writers Conference. 50+ Black Award-Winning Writers, Including Michael Eric Dyson, Kevin Powell, Edwidge Danticat, Karen Hunter, Kwame Dawes, Marc Lamont Hill, Bettina Love, Patricia Spears Jones, and Others, Will Address the Dangers of Book Bans, a Call for Social Justice Activism, Environmental Racism, DEI Blowback, the Need for Emotional Healing, and More!

Join Us at Medgar Evers College, CUNY (Brooklyn)! ALL ARE WELCOME! Click HERE for the Program Schedule.

WATCH: Our NBWC2024 Honorees and Two Distinguished Writers

NBWC2024 Honorees At-A-Glance

Emily Raboteau Talks NBWC2024

Kevin Powell: "I Am A Black Writer"

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Writers on Writing with Dr. Brenda M. Greene

Writers on Writing Interview with Bernice McFadden

Original Air Date: Sunday, March 3, 2024

Donna Hill interviews author Bernice McFadden, author of sixteen acclaimed novels, and numerous essays. She was long-listed for The Woman’s Prize, is the recipient of the American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature, both for her novel The Book of Harlan. Hill and McFadden discuss her vision for her work and whether intention or instinct shape many of the themes of family, racism, passing, friendship and dreaming in her novels. The Book of Harlan has been selected as Medgar Evers College’s BIG READ.

 

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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.

Writers on Writing Interview with Michael Green

Original Air Date: Sunday, February 18, 2024

Dr. Brenda Greene interviews actor, writer, producer, and director Michael Green. Green has received critical praise for his ongoing portrayal of Dr. King in Jeff Stetson’s The Meeting and has produced and directed among others Whistle in Mississippi: The Lynching of Emmett Till, MLK: If He Had Sneezed, and Barbara Jordan: I Dared to Be Me. Green and Greene discuss his journey, the state of Black theater, and his views on the role of the artist.

 

 

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.

Contact Us

Center for Black Literature (CBL)
at Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1534 Bedford Avenue | 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, New York 11216
(Click HERE for the Postal Mailing Address)

Main Phone: (718) 804-8884
Main Office: info@centerforblackliterature.org

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The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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