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
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