Category Archives: harlem books

HW Pick: Ancient Nubia, African Kingdoms on the Nile With Chester Higgiins

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For most of the modern world, ancient Nubia seems an unknown and enigmatic land. Only a handful of archaeologists have studied its history or unearthed the Nubian cities, temples, and cemeteries that once dotted the landscape of southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Continue reading

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The QBR Reader’s Choice Book Award Show at the 2013 Harlem Book Fair

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The QBR Reader’s Choice Book Award Show recognizes the best African American books and writers in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children’s books. Special awards will be also given for Publisher of the Year and Performance Poet of the Year. Continue reading

Giovanni’s Room Re-Read With The Black Gay and Lesbian Archive Book Series

Read or re-read Giovanni’s Room, the James Baldwin’s classic, and join the BGLA and other guests for a discussion of the text. Continue reading

Harlem’s Community Boards, East to West, Support Harlem Literacy Day, Dec 1st

Fellow Harlemites:

As of last night, all three community boards representing HarlemManhattan Community Boards 9, 10, and 11–have overwhelmingly passed resolutions encouraging Harlemites to participate in Literacy Across Harlem Day … Continue reading

Qoute of The Day: “…in Harlem, everybody is real, and they’re very raw…”

The qoute is from an article in PhiladelphiaWeekly.com, with Solomon Jones, 44, and Karen E. Quinones Miller, 54, who have much in common. Both were newspaper journalists in this town—Miller at the Inquirer, Jones at the Daily News (and, previously, here at PW ). Continue reading

HW Pick: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. Continue reading

‘The Hiplife in Ghana’ Author Speaks At The Schomburg Center In Harlem

Halifu OsumarePh.D., is a Associate Professor and Director of African American and African Studies at University of California, Davis, will discuss her new book The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop. Continue reading

SYMPOSIUM: Caribbean Crossroads Keynote Address by Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

In conjunction with the Caribbean: Crossroads of the World exhibition, El Museo del Barrio and The Studio Museum in Harlem present a three-day symposium bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the Caribbean and its diaspora. Continue reading

Help African Voices Celebrate 20 Years (video)

African Voices, one of the few national literary magazines to dedicated to publishing African-American literature and art… Continue reading

Dwyane Wade signs at MIST Harlem During Hue-Man Book Pop-Up (raw video)

Miami Heat basketball champion superstar Dwyane Wade signed copies of his new book, “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball” on Wednesday night, September 5th, at the brand spanking new My Image Studios MISTHarlem. Continue reading