The book, those words together. This is nonprofit, funded exclusively through donations. One of the ways to help us through this kind of programming is through the friends of fall for the book. To learn more, please visit that web site again. We ask that you, please, remember to silence your cell phone. And thank you in advance for filling out a survey which will help fall for the book improve the festival in the future. Thank you to our main sponsor, african and africanamerican studies. So were pleased to have here Mary Louise Patterson and Jeffrey Stewart, two writers who examine key figures of the harlem renaissance, Langston Hughes and alain locke respectively. Dr. Mary Louise Patterson explores the relationship that her family but particularly her mother had with Langston Hughes, and in the new negro, the life of alain locke, Jeffrey Stewart chronicles the education and career of this central figure in the harlem renaissance. Its important to Say Something about the subjects that
It positioned a black family is traditional. They brought you inside a Nuclear Black family in a way that was pathology is our caricatured in American Literature and Popular Culture but also did not show in the difficulties in dealing with the challenges of stigma inequality command race in general. Continuing the tour. This is a kind of interesting story. Currently as i mentioned a part of the collection includes amazing fine art and represents the can of like raise. Aa year and a half ago from the bronx reached out to the curator and said i want to give the schaumburg. Come check it out. This was purchased by the gentleman father in1941 with the original bill of sale for 125 still on the back of this panel. Whatwhat makes it even more interesting is this panel was done during the same year as the great migration series. This series is now exhibition in collaboration with the philips. New york. All 60 panels come together. Jacob lawrence himself heres the thing, not only do we have an
[inaudible conversations] on your screen now is a live picture of the Langston Hughes auditorium at the schomburg center. The home of the harlem book fair. The center for research and black culture part of the New York Public Library system is one of the leading institutions focusing on africanamerican life culture and experiences. Well be back live with the harlem book fair in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations] what we often think as the bribery of our National Leaders by powerful special interests in washington may actually make more sense, understood as extortion by government officials both elected and unelected. Please elaborate. Guest i think sometimes that often times in fact the conventional wisdom is wrong and the conventional wisdom is you have good intentioned government officials who are being influenced or there are attachments to influence them by corporations corporations and public unyouens and if with could just seal off these Public Officials from outside i
Celebrating its sesquicentennial, 150 years, founded in 1867, a university that originally started with nine students in the basement of the sharp street Methodist Episcopal Church, now celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8000 students. It is a history and a legacy that is tied to historically black colleges and universities. In 2017, there are nine historically black colleges and universities that will celebrate their 150th anniversary, and these are Morgan State University in baltimore maryland, Howard University in d. C. , johnson c. Smith in north carolina, barber scotia in north carolina, talladega alabama, Saint Augustine in north carolina, alabama State University in alabama, fayetteville State University in north carolina, and Morehouse College in georgia. In 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black college and university established in any single year. 1965, the Higher Education act of 1965 formal
Celebrating its sesquicentennial, 150 years, founded in 1867, a university that originally started with nine students in the basement of the sharp street Methodist Episcopal Church, now celebrating 150 years and has nearly 8000 students. It is a history and a legacy that is tied to historically black colleges and universities. In 2017, there are nine historically black colleges and universities that will celebrate their 150th anniversary, and these are Morgan State University in baltimore maryland, Howard University in d. C. , johnson c. Smith in north carolina, barber scotia in north carolina, talladega alabama, Saint Augustine in north carolina, alabama State University in alabama, fayetteville State University in north carolina, and Morehouse College in georgia. In 1867, these nine historically black colleges and universities formed the largest concentration of any historically black college and university established in any single year. 1965, the Higher Education act of 1965 formal