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Memorial Tribute: Chinua Achebe’s Harlem Echos (video)

Posted on March 31, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (pron.: /ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. Continue reading →

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Help African Voices Celebrate 20 Years (video)

Posted on September 18, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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

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The Harlem Book Fair Was In Full Force

Posted on July 27, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Every third Saturday in July, authors and readers converge at 135th Street in Harlem. For bibliophiles, the Harlem Book Fair is the perfect place to indulge in their obsession. Continue reading →

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HW Radio Pod and the Harlem Writers Guild Celebrate the Harlem Book Fair

Posted on July 21, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Enjoy this HW Radio Pod show with host Danny Tisdale as he speaks to authors Dave Scott, Diane Richardson and Judy Andrew members of the 60 year old Harlem Writers Guild, they read excerpts from their books and celebrate the Harlem Book Fair today from 11 – 6 pm on West 135th Street from Malcolm X Boulevard to Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem.

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Rudolph Fisher, the Best Harlem Renaissance Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Posted on June 3, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Rudolph Fisher (May 9, 1897 Washington, DC – December 26, 1934) was an African-American physician, radiologist, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, musician, and orator. Continue reading →

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Harlem Welcomes Haitian Writer and Poet, Edwidge Danticat For The Langston Hughes Festival

Posted on November 14, 2011 by | 1 Comment

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Langston Hughes, it would widely be accepted by many lay readers is the singular literary advocate of the American Negro and the black experience. Continue reading →

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Writer Woman: Why I Write

Posted on July 14, 2011 by | 1 Comment

I don’t know how many times I heard my aunt, Eartha, after whom I am named, tell this one particular story. According to her, I was three years old—telling everybody’s business—outside in front of her building with pen and paper, writing “a book.” I don’t remember that. Or even if I was able to write my own name at the age of three. Continue reading →

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HW Black History Month: Langston Hughes

Posted on February 26, 2010 by | 7 Comments

Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and her husband James Nathaniel Hughes (1871-1934). Both parents were mixed-race, and Langston Hughes was of African American, European American and Native American descent. He grew up in a series of Midwestern small towns. Both his paternal great-grandmothers were African American, and both his paternal great-grandfathers were white: one of Scottish and one of Jewish descent. Continue reading →

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