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(Manhattan Beach, CA – January 18, 2023) – At this year’s Independent Book Publishers Association’s annual conference, IBPA Publishing University, the conference will explore the theme of what it means to “Navigate, Innovate, Elevate” within the independent book publishing industry. The theme is a meaningful reference to IBPA’s 40th anniversary, which the association is celebrating in 2023, and its role in the past four decades advocating for, and helping independent book publishers to build long term, successful businesses. With this theme in mind, IBPA is excited to announce that one of the three keynote presentations at the conference taking place May 4-6 in San Diego, CA, will feature a panel of highly respected industry leaders whose publishing businesses have spanned decades and have overcome every type of challenges along the way. The keynote panel “Legends of Black Independent Publishing: Learning from the Best” will invite onto the stage: Dr. Haki Madhubuti, founder of Third World Press Foundation; W. Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press; Kassahun Checole, founder of Africa World Press and The Red Sea Press; and Wade Hudson and Cheryl Hudson, founders of Just Us Books. The panel will be moderated by Troy Johnson, founder of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com). With a combined industry experience of 150+ years, these publishers will answer the question, “What do you do when your community is under-served, under-represented, and under-published?” You serve, represent, and publish! The complete conference agenda can be viewed at https://www.publishinguniversity.org/schedule. In addition, registration is now open for IBPA Publishing University ### To moderate this panel is truly an honor. When I first sat down to start AALBC, in 1997, all of these businesses were firmly established, but I did not know anything about them. I soon learned about all of them and their significant impact on Black books and by extension our culture. If you are a book publisher, you really need to attend IBPA Publishing University It is not often you'll get these icons in the same room.

The Founders were the original pimps.

@Mel Hopkins She has a personal relationship with his music and performance on stage:) ahh I see, cool about the man to woman or woman to man @Pioneer1 doing something:) we are all adults here. and your correct, simultaneous joys do that.

Well, I'm glad to see that it is. That site has to be almost as old as the internet itself....lol. I'd like to see it become an institution....like AALBC.

Sadly the “tricks” are W-2s AKA employees in this system. Thank goodness for collective bargaining agreements and some federal laws that help protect workers. But there are some workplaces where employers have practices in place that allow them to charge workers for employment. Let’s not forget the penal system where slavery is still legal in some states. Propers to the state governments that have banned the practice. If you are interested in identifying the “tricks“ under this system review state laws and U.S. Code. @Delano is correct. The U.S. founders desired freedom for themselves. But they intended to pimp out “others” for their personal gain.

The idea that aliens can't do any better than waste time releasing balloons into the atmosphere is ludicrous.

i agree. it's bad enough that kids can no longer write in cursive or tell time on anything but a digital clock. Standard English is the last vestige of the past. Let's preserve it.

Ain't is a contraction for is not and are not just like isn't and aren't. At this point, ain't is definitely accepted nationally. It pairs up well with double negatives too.🤣 Ain't nobody got time fo' dat... Ain't ne'er another one... Spell check recognizes ain't as a word too. 😎

English is already has too many exceptions. Even seasoned professional writers need a another professional to correct their writing. Most languages have a formal and colloquial expression which is fine. No need to rewrite rule book, ‘cause those rules will be eventually be broken too. Forget the the double negatives, but adding new words makes sense. i thought “Yo” was already a word. “Ain’t” should be a word. Everyone knows what it means, and many use it. Though i don’t remember what words it is supposed to be a contraction for.

Everyone else.

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