Entries Tagged as ‘Books’
October 23, 2009
Award Winning Authors at Hue Man
Books
Hue-Man Bookstore & Vision Works Publishing
Invite Educators, Families and Their Children
To Attend an Author Reading/ Discussion/ Book Signing
Award Winning Children’s Book Authors “David and Mutiya Vision”
Introduce Their Latest Hit “The Land of Expression “
When: Saturday, October 31, 2009
Where: Hue-Man Bookstore, 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York , NY (Between 124th and 125th Street )
Time: 2:00-4:00pm
RSVP [...]
October 7, 2009
The Mosaic Literary Conference
Books
The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This day of professional-development workshops will help educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore course work that focuses on cultures, history, and social studies.
Register at http://mosaic.eventbrite.com/
Individual Registration: $50 (Enter code [...]
September 26, 2009
Literature Awards in Harlem
Books
I spent my Thursday night in fine company, with the many authors and editors honored at the African American Literary Awards Show (AALAS). The Awards Show was hosted at Harlem Stage’s Gatehouse, a venue particularly suited for the occasion. The Gatehouse has been privy to many a historic moment since its construction in 1890, due [...]
September 24, 2009
Mount Morris Talks to Clara Villarosa!
Books
On Tuesday, September 29, from 6:30 to 8 PM, MMPCIA welcomes our neighbor, Clara Villarosa, as guest speaker at the kick-off of the second season of conversations between the community and leaders, news makers, artists, authors and thinkers who live in the Harlem area.
“I’ve always been a bibliophile and an avid reader, but I [...]
September 16, 2009
HW Pick: The Conversation, by Hill Harper
About The Conversation
Only 34 percent of African- American children today are raised in two-parent households, a sharp contrast to 1966, when 85 percent of black children were raised by two parents. In provocative but heartfelt words, Hill Harper takes on these urgent challenges, bringing a variety of issues out of the shadows. In The [...]
September 3, 2009
An Afternoon With Author David Rivera Jr.
Books
Troy Johnson of the African American Literature Book Club sits down with Author David Rivera Jr.,
to discuss his new book, “The Last Prejudice.”
youtube.com
August 27, 2009
Harlem’s American Eccentrics
Book
Homer and Langley Collyer became reluctant celebrities in the late 1930s when their decaying Harlem mansion began to attract the attention of neighbors and the press. Scions of an old New York family, the Collyer brothers had lived alone in the four-story brownstone since their mother’s death in the late ‘20s, leaving their home less [...]
July 7, 2009
The ‘H’ man Brings The Heat In Harlem
Books
H is for Heat. H is for Harlem. H is for Hickson, a native of Harlem with an ear for the heated stories of the inner city and with a few tales of his own. “Harlem is where the heart is,” Hickson says, willing to talk just about everything but his first name (which, at [...]
July 2, 2009
Star-Studded Nelson Mandela Fav African Folktales AudioBook
Books
In honor of Nelson Mandela, Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) and Hachette Audio produced an audiobook edition of Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales, an award-winning book of stories hand-picked by the Nobel laureate. Diverse, acclaimed performers donated their talents to the charitable endeavor by voicing stories: Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo [...]
June 23, 2009
HW Books: The Two-Front Battle of Harlem’s Hellfighters
Books
With only one American veteran of World War I still alive and a five-year lag until centennial commemorations, that most horrific of conflicts has been practically forgotten. A new book by Peter N. Nelson tells the story of a group of soldiers in that war who “could not be forgotten because they were never fully [...]
June 16, 2009
Life Changing Books And Ericka Williams
Presents: Writing with a Purpose
If you are a author and would like to get your books in front of the world this is how..
June 4, 2009
HW Pick: Harlem Lost And Found
To buy this great book by Michael Henry Adams for $47.45. For more Harlem product shopping go to the Harlem World Prop Shop.
May 10, 2009
May Events At Hue-Man
Books
Monday, May 11th at 6PM
I Didn’t Work This Hard Just To Get Married
Nika Beamon
Women once saw living single as a transitional period–singles marked time till they found “the one.” But now marriage is the transitional stage, connecting one unmarried period of life to another. In” I Didn’t Work This Hard Just to Get Married, [...]
May 10, 2009
Author Harriet Washington Speaks At St. Philip’s Church
Faith& Books
Greetings,
The Cultural Committee of St. Philip’s Church and the Women’s Committee of St. Philip’s Church are pleased to announce that Harriet Washington, author of MEDICAL APARTHEID, will address the congregation on Women’s Day, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009, AT 10 AM.
MEDICAL APARTHEID won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and, as described by its publisher, [...]
April 9, 2009
Facebook: Up South Event
Books
Malaika Adero The next Up South event: Friday, May 22nd, 2-4pm, Javits Center, during the 2009 Book Expo in New York City, featuring Farai Chideya, author of a brilliant novel KISS THE SKY, Lori Tharps, author of KINKY GAZPACHO, poet Patricia Spears Jones. Free. For more info go to the Up South International Book Festival [...]
March 22, 2009
Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson @ Google
Business/Books
Harlem businessman Earvin “Magic” Johnson visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “32 Ways to Be a Champion in Business.” This event took place on March 10, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Long format: 1:02:16
Earvin made the transition from great athlete to greater entrepreneur through hard work [...]
March 19, 2009
Diva Kathleen Battle In Harlem
Books
Kathleen Battle remembers….and on April 5th at Carnegie Hall she will sing the music of struggle, faith and deliverance. We encourage our customers not to miss this songbird sing our history.
Hue-Man Bookstore, 2319 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BLVD., NEW YORK, NY 10027, www.huemanbooks
ore.com, 212.665.7400
March 14, 2009
Thoughts, Christine King-Farris
Books
Martin Luther King, Jr. had one brother and one sister. …
…His sister Christine King Farris talks about life growing up and her work with her brother during civil rights marches.
C-SPAN on youtube.com
March 13, 2009
From Brooklyn To Harlem
Books
By FELICIA R. LEE from the NY Times
Paule Marshall’s coming-of-age novel, “Brown Girl, Brownstones,” put her on the map 50 years ago with a new kind of coming-of-age story, that of a second-generation West Indian girl in Brooklyn. Now, at 79, she is on tour for her latest book, “Triangular Road” (Basic Civitas Books), a [...]
March 6, 2009
Self-Publishing Symposium In Harlem
Books
The Self-Publishing Symposium 2009
http://aspicomm.com/selfpublishingsymposium/ Join us on March 22, 2009 at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to take advantage of what this important business event can do for your publishing company. Whether you’re a self-published author, small/independent press or writer considering self publishing, you won’t [...]
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