The seventh annual Harlem Book Fair, which takes place this Saturday,
July 23, noon to 7 p.m., on W. 135th St. between Fifth Ave. and Adam
Clayton Powell, Jr., Blvd. in New York City, is expected to draw 40,000
people and will have 250 booths. Besides a range of signings, readings
and four stages that will feature poets, celebrities and music, this
year's fair offers its first-ever Children's Pavilion.Coordinated by Just Us Books, the publisher of black-interest books for young people, and Say It Loud!, a youth communication and literary arts program, the Children's Pavilion program includes appearances on its main stage by:
- Irene Smalls, author of Because You're Lucky (Little, Brown, $16.95, 0316798673) and Kevin and His Dad (Little, Brown, $16.99, 0316798991);
- Camille Yarbrough, author of the Coretta Scott King Award-winner Cornrow (Putnam, $6.99, 0698114361) and Tamika and the Wisdom Rings (Just Us Books, $5.95, 094097567X);
- Natasha Tarpley, author of I Love My Hair (Megan Tingley, $6.99, 0316523755);
- Quincy Troupe, author of Little Stevie Wonder (Houghton Mifflin, $18, 0618340602).
Also 16 children's book authors and illustrators will do signings.
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See it on C-Span2!
Book TV on C-Span2 will air three Harlem Book Fair panels live:
At 12:15 p.m. on Saturday: Relinquishing Blackness: The Class Divide in Black America. The panel consists of:
- Michael Eric Dyson, author of Is Bill Cosby Right?;
- Juan Williams, author of My Soul Looks Back in Wonder;
- Cora Daniels, author of Black Power Inc: The New Voice of Success;
- Janice Kearney, author of Cotton Field of Dreams;
- Charisse Jones, author of Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America.
At 1:30 p.m., Black Political Writing in the 21st Century. Panel:
- Wayne Dawkins, author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream;
- Bob Herbert, author of Promises Betrayed: Waking up from the American Dream;
- Jimmie Briggs, author of Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War;
- Kevin Powell, author of Who's Gonna Take the Weight?: Manhood, Race, and Power in America;
- Yvonne Bynoe, author of Stand and Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership, and Hip-Hop Culture.
3 p.m. The Black Classics: Books That Speak to Our Soul. Panelists:
- Herb Boyd, author of We Shall Overcome;
- David Levering Lewis, author of The Portable Harlem Reader;
- Sondra Kathryn Wilson, author of Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel;
- Ellease Southerland, author of Let the Lion Eat Straw.