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Historic Event Coverage

Browse chronological reports, photos, and highlights from literary gatherings spanning over 25 years:

• Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival (Jan 2017)
• In Search of Diverse Book Buyers Panel (BEA 2015)
• Harlem Renaissance Holiday Fete (2014)
• 2014 National Book Awards
• 13th Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards (2014)
• As the Pages Turn Book Club Luncheon (2014)
• Go On Girl! Book Club 22nd Awards (2014)
• The 8th Annual Black Pack Party (2014)
• Should Black Youth Join the U.S. Armed Forces? (2015)
• 12th National Black Writers Conference (2014)
• National Book Award Events (2013)
• The Bibliophiles 25th Anniversary (2013)
• Afrilit 2013
• 7th Annual Black Pack Party
• African American Literary Awards Show 2012
• 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival
• 2012 Black Pack Party
• Videos from the 2012 Harlem Book Fair (Newark)
• 2011 Black Pack Party
• 2009 Mosaic Spring Benefit
• Professional Publishing Seminars
• 3rd Annual Black Pack Party
• Meeting with One Spirit Book Club
• 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair
• Antigua & Barbuda International Literary Festival
• African American Literary Awards Show (2008)
• The Divas of Literature Tour (2008)
• Hot Book Fun in the Summertime II
• 10th Harlem Book Fair (2008)
• Pan African Literary Forum in Ghana
• AA Pavilion at BookExpo America '08
• 1st Annual National Black Book Festival
• Black Enterprise Entrepreneurs Conference
• 9th National Black Writers Conference
• Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
• Felicia Pride's Book Launch
• 2007 African American Literary Awards Show
• '07 Brother 2 Brother Lit. Symposium
• K'wan's Book Launch Party
• 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
• Harlem Book Fair 2007
• 2007 NAACP Author Pavilion
• I Got Your Back Book Launch Party (2007)
• BookExpo America 2007
• Ellie Awards 2007 - Toni Morrison
• A Tribute to Bob Marley
• HW Celebrates Books
• Self-Publishing Symposium 07
• Newark Literacy Campaign
• Hooks and Sanchez
• Living the Parable of the Talents
• Nana Camille Yarbrough
• Bill Duke & Relentless Aaron
• Say It Loud! Reads & Writers Series
• Fundraising Extravaganza - WPB, FL
• Katrina: A Whole Lotta Water
• Capital BookFest 2006
• Sixth Annual National Book Festival
• African American Literary Awards Show (2006)
• Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair
• National Book Club Conference 2006
• Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA
• Queens Book Fair 2006
• Hot Book Fun Summertime Dance Party
• Harlem Book Fair 2006 - Harlem
• BookExpo America 2006
• 8th National Black Writers Conference
• African American Pavilion - BEA 2005
• 3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest
• New York is Book Country
• Harlemade Book Signing
• 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
• 2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conference
• Sex, Jazz & Chocolate...
• Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2002
• Gwendolyn Brooks Writers' Conference
• Geography, Race, and Culture
• Harlem Book Fair 2001
• Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
• Book Expo America 2001
• 17th Annual Celebration of Black Writing
• Slam King Poetry Contest
• Kevin Powell Book Readings
• Harlem Book Fair 2000
• Book Expo America 2000
• AA Cultural Expo 2000
• Go On Girl! Nat'l Conv. 2000
• National Black Writers Conference 2000
• Poet's Read for Amadou Diallo
• The Ground Together II
• AA Cultural Expo 1999
• Sacred Circle/Spoken Word
• 360 A Revolution of Black Poets '98
• AA Lit. Conference 2000
• Grand Slammin 1999
• National Black Herstory Conference

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