Welcome to the 16th National Black writers conference hailing from Medgar College and the center for black literature. This is our next roundtable making a way out of no way healing the community, which will be moderated by two bd lewis let me tell you about the bd lewis so we can jump right into this spirited conversation to bd. Lewis is professor of at Washington State university and and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. His areas focus are mid 20th century africanamerican and multicultural literature. The black Arts Movement is of particular to him as he is the codirector and coproducer of the 2019 documentary film bam Chicago Black Arts Movement and he is completing an edited reader about chicago and black arts. He is author of black people are my business toni k bombards practices of liberation and editor of conversations with toni cade bambara. His interest extend to sports and Popular Culture and those interest are reflected in the book ballers of the new school ra
Making a way out of no way healing the community, which will be moderated by two bd lewis let me tell you about the bd lewis so we can jump right into this spirited conversation to bd. Lewis is professor of at Washington State university and and associate vice chancellor for academic affairs. His areas focus are mid 20th century africanamerican and multicultural literature. The black Arts Movement is of particular to him as he is the codirector and coproducer of the 2019 documentary film bam Chicago Black Arts Movement and he is completing an edited reader about chicago and black arts. He is author of black people are my business toni k bombards practices of liberation and editor of conversations with toni cade bambara. His interest extend to sports and Popular Culture and those interest are reflected in the book ballers of the new school race and sports in america. So everyone, please welcome brother to bd lewis. Thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. This years theme is t
Fiction, drama and essay each featured here today will illustrate the ways in which his or her work speak to the complex experiences of black people in literature and i know were at the 16th National Black writers conference, but the speakers youre about to listen to are not living by the pen. Youll witnessing the unraveling of whitewashed history through the eyes of historians like dolan valdez, whose work plants its palms into american soil and pulls out narratives that are imagined and true all at once. Youll be looking at executive producers like jelani cobb, whose influence ranges from marvels luke cage, the newly released lincolns dilemma. Youll be listening to sci and fantasy tv comic book connoisseur like marlon james, whose works will be splashing our screens in the coming years. And well and that will be no surprise to any of us. Youll hear voices all too familiar because youve heard them times before, like kahlil gibran, whose words have graced many documents and Media Outle
Codirector and coproducer of the 2019 documentary film bam Chicago Black Arts Movement and he is completing an edited reader about chicago and black arts. He is author of black people are my business toni k bombards practices of liberation and editor of conversations with toni cade bambara. His interest extend to sports and Popular Culture and those interest are reflected in the book ballers of the new school race and sports in america. So everyone, please welcome brother to bd lewis. Thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. This years theme is the beautiful struggle. Struggle black writers lighting the way and i think using this theme as well as our the theme for our panel, our participants will engage in a will take on the theme of how black writers have in their understanding of continuous struggle for justice and the need to address aspiration issues and challenges that affect the black community have been a voice of strength and provided the bomb for our souls. So our pa
Not settle for in gauging your conversations, please Pay Attention and well, our panel of moderator is here. Thank you. [applause] hello. Hello. Hello. Welcome. I hope thats you are settled and a driver we have an amazing panel this afternoon. And i am honored to be here to sorts of moderates but really to open the stage for these brilliant people, a Brilliant Minds to talk to us about the work they have done and the work that they have continued to do. This is maintaining cultural legacies. Our cultural memory as part of our collective domain, of the droll literal text is a repository they transmit and give shape to our memories and experiences and reveal various ways the present has been shaped by the past. They also proposed for future understanding and living. Certainly the idea is and subjects represented in the literary and cultural works created gathered here have been discussed, debated and celebrated by readers worldwide. Their work has become part of what some have termed the