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Infrastructure, upgrading technology, empowering opportunity in communities big and small. Charter is connecting us. Charter communications, along with these Television Companies , supports cspan2 as a public service. Writers conference. My name is erica boddington and as youve heard on the ceo and founder of langston, a consulting curriculum firm specializes in culturally affirming instruction materials and writing for late night segment called how do we get here on the amber ruffin show . Speaking of how we got, were all here for roundtable entitled the souls of black folk telling our stories. Todays roundtable title is taken from w. E. B. Duboiss landmark book, the souls black folk. And in this regard, todays speakers will discuss how their work to the complex experiences of black people. The African Diaspora through 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
The African Diaspora through 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 m