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Dr. Brenda Greene (Talib Kweili’s Mother) discusses how to bring art into your household. She reflects on Talib Kweili’s use of drawing that lead into increased literacy. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Raising Him Alone Empowering Single Mothers Raising Young Boys hosted by Urban Leadership Institute

Cassandra Mack discusses how art is essential in the lives of young children. She stresses bringing in the community to help raise your kids. She is the author The Single Mother’s Little Book of Wisdom. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Raising Him Alone Empowering Single Mothers Raising Young Boys hosted by Urban Leadership Institute

We need a blueprint in developing our kids. David Miller addresses "fatherlessness." What is the "absent daddy club?" What impact does fathers have on a household? Why do we quickly hook up, have babies, then decide this was the worst man we ever met?! This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Raising Him Alone Empowering Single Mothers Raising Young Boys hosted by Urban Leadership Institute

Author Michelle Caple Taylor – Trouble Won’t Last Always (Christian Fiction). This is an excerpt from the Authors Pavilion Meet Signings and Discussion: Authors Working in the Community hosted by Patrick Oliver founder of, Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series & host and executive producer Literary Nation KABF FM 88.3

Kareem Moody - Raise them Up: The Real Deal on Reaching Unreachable Kids. This is an excerpt from the Authors Pavilion Meet Signings and Discussion: Authors Working in the Community hosted by Patrick Oliver founder of, Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series & host and executive producer Literary Nation KABF FM 88.3

Short clip of authors at CBC Author's pavilion. CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today's Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

Cora Coleman-Dunham – drummer for Prince and author of G.A.G.U. Gathering A Greater Understanding. This is an excerpt from the Authors Pavilion Meet Signings and Discussion: Authors Working in the Community hosted by Patrick Oliver founder of, Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series & host and executive producer Literary Nation KABF FM 88.3

Why Mary Frances Berry writes – And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today's Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

Reginald Dwayne Betts discusses his book, A Question of Freedom, a coming-of-age story with the unique twist that it takes place in prison. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today's Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

Why did Gwen Ifill write The Breakthrough: Politics and Race In the Age of Obama? She answers this question on the Panel:Impact of the Black Writer on Today’s Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!.

Stephanie J. Jones discusses The State of Black America 2009: Message to the President. Stephanie discusses who should buy this book on a CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today's Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

Who should read The Breakthrough: Politics and Race In the Age of Obama and the book And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America. CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today’s Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

Stephanie J. Jones on who should read The State of Black America 2009: Message to the President. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today’s Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

Laura Murphy is a nationally acclaimed lobbyist and advocate who, for the last 30 years, has held influential positions in government and non-profit organizations. She was the moderator for a CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today’s Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It! This is just a excerpt from the panel discussion.

Impact of the Black Writer on Today's Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It! Panel introductions of speakers Gwen Ifill author of The Breakthrough: Politics and Race... and Stephanie J. Jones editor of The State of Black America 2009: Message to the President

Sheron "Umi" Smith, mother of Grammy Nominated actor and rapper Mos Def. discusses how art influences life. She states that art cultivates confidence. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Raising Him Alone Empowering Single Mothers Raising Young Boys hosted by Urban Leadership Institute

Introducing speaker Mary Frances Berry author of And Justice for All. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Impact of the Black Writer on Today's Culture: How Our Story is Told and Who Tells It!

David Miller discusses the drop out rate of our children. He insists that black sons do not have to go to prison. He introduces the women who are raising successful black men alone. This is an excerpt from the CBC Authors Pavilion Panel discussion: Raising Him Alone Empowering Single Mothers Raising Young Boys hosted by Urban Leadership Institute

This book is starting a revolution in how men see themselves and their role in society. This message will empower men of all ethnicities, ages and religious backgrounds to embrace a new paradigm of masculinity that will empower them to reach their full potential.

Is it possible to: Teach men to become great fathers? Encourage men to become better husbands? Teach men to live with passion and purpose? Get men involved in improving their communities? Join entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and radio-show host Michael Taylor as he shares how creating a new paradigm of masculinity can help heal America. This book is written to inspire men of all ethnicities, ages, socio-economic levels, and religions to come together to redefine manhood and to eradicate the multiplicity of challenges facing America today. Its intention is to remove the separation among men and remove the hatred, fear, and distrust that too many men feel about each other. It is a powerful, inspirational document written to educate, motivate, and inspire all men to reach their full potential. Join the conversation, and become a part of the revolution!

Meet Financial Guru Harrine Freeman.

Chloe R introduces new book from Xpress Yourself Publishing. Filmed by EDC Creations.

Meet Author Frankie Nicole as she introduces her new Book Scratches. Filmed live at the Capital Book Festival by EDC Creations.

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Monda Webb, Richard Jenty and Lee McDonald discusses what it takes to start the journey to the bestsellers circle. Filmed live at the Capital Book Festival by EDC Creations.

Filmed live from the Capital Book Festival by EDC Creations. Bestselling author Donna Hill discusses how she began her writing career.

Watch as authors Richard Genty, Monda Webb and Lee McDonald of the Renaissance Group, LLC discuss some of the things it takes to make a bestselling book work. Filmed live at the Capital Book Festival.

Bestselling authors Donna Hill, Wendy Coakley Thomas and Colette Hayward discuss love and relationships in African American Literature. Does the industry demand we add more sex to our books? Filmed live at the Capital Book Festival by Ella Curry of EDC Creations.

Live from CBC. Them: A Novel - Paperback (Aug 19, 2008) by Nathan McCall. Nathan McCall's novel, Them, tells a compelling story set in a downtown Atlanta neighborhood known for its main street, Auburn Avenue, which once was regarded as the "richest Negro street in the world." The story centers around Barlowe Reed, a single, forty-something African American who rents a ramshackle house on Randolph Street, just a stone's throw from the historic birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Barlowe, who works as a printer, otherwise passes the time reading and hanging out with other men at the corner store. He shares his home and loner existence with a streetwise, twentysomething nephew who is struggling to get his troubled life back on track. When Sean and Sandy Gilmore, a young white couple, move in next door, Barlowe and Sandy develop a reluctant, complex friendship as they hold probing -- often frustrating -- conversations over the backyard fence. ISBN-10: 1416549161

William R. Patterson live at the Congressional Black Caucus. Filmed by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

William R. Patterson speaks on the Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders panel discussion. This video is a ... selection of the panel discussion. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLC and Hurston Wright Group. Footage filmed live from the Congressional Black Caucus by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

Ken Brown speaks at the Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders panel discussion. This video is a ... selection of the panel discussion. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLC and Hurston Wright Group. Footage filmed live from the Congressional Black Caucus by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

Harrine Freeman speaks on the Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders panel discussion. This video is a selection of the panel discussion. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLC and Hurston Wright Group. Footage filmed live from the Congressional Black Caucus by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

Harrine Freeman speaks at the Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders panel discussion. This video is a selection of the panel discussion. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLC and Hurston Wright Group. Footage filmed live from the Congressional Black Caucus by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

Introduction to the Fannie Mae Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders panel discussion. This video is a selection of the panel discussion. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLC and Hurston Wright Group. Footage shot live from the Congressional Black Caucus by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

Financial Literacy: Smart Money Solutions for Emerging Leaders panel discussion. This video is a selection of the panel discussion. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLc and Hurston Wright Group. Footage shot live from the Congressional Black Caucus by Ella Curry of EDC Creations. www.edc-creations.com

Ella interviews the author of Them: A Novel, Nathan McCall. Book Details: The author of the bestselling memoir Makes Me Wanna Holler presents a profound debut novel -- in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Zadie Smith's White Teeth -- that captures the dynamics of class and race in today's urban integrated communities. ISBN-10: 1416549161

Live from the Baltimore Book Festival, meet the author of Family Secrets, Lies & Alibis, Nanette M. Buchanan. Book Details: A story told through entangled fragments of a life painted by the brush of bitterness. Darrell's world is slowly unraveling as he finds his family has secrets revealed only after the unexpected death of his father. While caught in a web of emotions, he must sort through the lies and alibis to find out how and why he is tied into a family he never knew. As he uncovers these secrets, Darrell finds himself creating secrets of his own. After the reading of his father's will Darrell must now keep those secrets to protect the business and his family. The Family...Secrets, Lies & Alibis continue.... ISBN-10: 0979388309

Kevin Wayne Johnson live at the Baltimore Book Festival. Author of Give God the Glory! The Godly Family Life. Truly, the foundation of our world, the family, is under attack. The traditional family has been and is being re-defined by modern society. As fathers and mothers we must be willing to go to war to recapture and secure our God given tour-of-duty of being effective parents. Kevin Wayne Johnson is like a general giving marching orders and challenging his troops/parents for the fight. Kevin Johnson s inspirational battle plans are boldly and clearly presented in his new book, The Godly Family Life. I highly recommend that all parents sign-up, re-enlist or even be drafted to review these battle plans and join in the fight for our families. ISBN-10: 0970590237

Give God the Glory! - Know God and Do the Will of God Concerning Your Life by Kevin Wayne Johnson Book Details: Book #4 in the series is a detailed analysis of what the Bible teaches and instructs concerning the roles of the father, mother and children, despite man s intention to alter God s plan for the family. This book continues in the tradition of the Give God the Glory! books and devotionals, with a unique focus on the biblical purpose and role of the father, mother, and child(ren). In this book, readers will clearly understand that the man is the foundation of the family, the family is the foundation of the church, and the church is the foundation of our nation. We will glorify God through the family unit and understand our specific roles within the family structure as God intended. ISBN-10: 0970590237

Turn your speakers up! Shot live from the Baltimore Book Fair. Discussing Black Skyy by Janet Stevens Cook-- Book Details: Meet Skyy, a fantastic new superhero - and sensitive assassin - who defends thehelpless and brings justice to those who cannot fight for themselves. Sandora "Sandy" Knight is an enigma even to those who know her. Running a Fortune 500 company by day, she sheds her hip-hop cosmopolitan identity by nightto become the Lady in Black, also called Skyy, a sexy, smart vigilante who protects the innocent from child molesters, rapists, serial killers, and otherlow-life scum. The first novel in The Lady in Black series Black Skyy weaves anintricate tale of heroism, lethal beauty, and intoxicating eroticism. Set in both New York and Washington, D.C., Black Skyy follows Skyy's adventures in all their sensational and sensual thrills as she employs her uncanny intellectto capture and punish evildoers. ISBN-10: 1593091133

A Matter Of Attitude (Kimani Tru) by Hayden. Live from the Congressional Black Caucus. Book Details: Fashionista with the fiercest style sense and head-turning clothes? That's Angela Jenkins. Even though her cutting-edge designs and graphic legwear sometimes draw criticism from her peers, Angela knows that one day she will be a top designer, and her best friend at Kressler High, Adrian Gomez, is her biggest supporter. But at fifteen, how is anyone (like the extremely cute JaRoli Spencer) supposed to check her out when she's stuck working at her family's Caribbean-style restaurant all the time? The answer: getting elected director of her school's holiday fashion show. But Angela's got designer-clad competition: the very popular Karen Frasier, who has it all—including JaRoli. So when Shayla Mercer, the girl with the toughest street rep, offers to make sure Angela wins—for a fee— Angela says yes. And she learns that the price of popularity can be too high. ISBN-10: 0373830890

Ella Curry interviews the author of Remember, It Is Your Charge, Go Master The Day, Allen C. Barham, Sr.(Dr. B), live at the BBF. Please turn up your volume and excuse the band. Book Details: People are given a purpose for their life when they are born. Greatness is placed within each individual in order to help him or her live out their purpose and pursue their destiny. "Go Master The Day© ™" is designed to help the reader come to the reality that they have a distinct purpose in this life, and their destiny is greatness. This book will help the reader shed their sin consciousness and embrace their righteousness. This is a book of powerful success deposits that will: instruct, motivate, & inspire each person to live their purpose, pursue their destiny and master each day. This book motivates and inspires you to embrace the truth of who you are: The Righteousness Of God, and, of course, a "DayMaster© ™" Remember, it is your charge, "Go Master The Day© ™"ISBN-10: 1425138454

Ella interviews the author of Tantrum, Charles D. Ellison, live at the Congressional Black Caucus. Please excuse the background noise. Book Details:Councilman a young, handsome, firebrand Philadelphia legislator in desperate search of true identity and meaning, is one day faced with an anxious assassin s missing bullet, and the soaking blood of a dying man in his arms. Puzzled police investigators scratch their heads and assume it s a failed mob hit , but over time, Councilman figures there are even deadlier, more hidden powers at work.... TANTRUM: an explosive political thriller, wrapped in fiery multi-narrative by a city, gripped in extreme violent rage and unstable transition. Organized by The Renaissance Group,LLC. Brought to you by EDC Creations. ISBN-10: 0974298255

Live from the Congressional Black Caucus we discuss the book She Said, She Said (Kimani Tru) by Celeste O. and Jennifer Norfleet. Turn up the volume! Book Details: Can you ground your mother? On the last day of school, Tamika's boyfriend dumps her, her best friend moves away and she's forced to go on a lame mother-daughter trip to her grandmother's house. She can barely handle one minute with her controlling, critical mom. But when they arrive, her life gets even worse! Her mother is suddenly acting like she's trying out for Moms Gone Wild, partying with her old high school crowd. Now Tamika's the responsible one: taking care of business and stuck on a nice guy instead of a player. She wouldn't mind a little bit of her old mom back. Wait a minute, did she really say that? ISBN-10: 0373830912

Raw shares with us his poetry. Check it out. Book Details: Included in this book is a debatable, bold and daring summary of one man's battle with infidelity, yet the ... hope and desire to change himself. A book that is deep in thought and context, dismissing the basis of lies and petty justifications of an apparent addiction to a lifestyle that continues to destroy. Each chapter is a conversation of confessions; a dialogue from the writer to the reader. Wonderfully written, exposing the cheating and deceptive ways of one man, shocking the reader but also educating and informing them as well. A daring story of pain and deceit, rebellion and revenge-that will capture your attention, make you think, and make you reconsider. Buy the book http://www.babydaddypublishing.com/book.htm

Included in this book is a debatable, bold and daring summary of one man's battle with infidelity, yet the hope and desire to change himself. A book that is deep in thought and context, dismissing the basis of lies and petty justifications of an apparent addiction to a lifestyle that continues to destroy. Each chapter is a conversation of confessions; a dialogue from the writer to the reader. Wonderfully written, exposing the cheating and deceptive ways of one man, shocking the reader but also educating and informing them as well. A daring story of pain and deceit, rebellion and revenge-that will capture your attention, make you think, and make you reconsider. Buy the book http://www.babydaddypublishing.com/book.htm

Renee discusses her book, live from the Baltimore Book Fair. Excuse the band. Book Details: Shelly Winston is back with a vengeance. When she finds out that the man she s always wanted for herself is about to get married, she decides to do what she should have done nearly two years before get him back by any means necessary. After all, Brian Turner belonged to her first. And as far as she is concerned, she will get him back, even if it means eliminating the one person who stands in her way his fiance, Lexie Mitchell. Brian and Lexie s relationship has stood the tests of time and they believe they have what it takes to make it in the long haul. At least it appears that way until Shelly resurfaces and rocks the solid foundation they thought they built. In this fast paced narrative Lexie, Brian and Shelly embark on a spellbinding journey that pushes the limits of love, trust, desire and lies. ISBN-10: 0976046628

The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family by Sheryll Cashin at the Congressional Black Caucus. Organized by The Renaissance Group, LLC. During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much. Sheryll Cashin conveys how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with humor, honesty, and love. ISBN-10: 1586484222

I was overjoyed at interviewing Mr. Walter Mosley at the Baltimore Book Festival! The band across the street is alot louder than my interview, but I was still honored to interview Mr. Mosley. He is discussing his book The Tempest Tales. Sorry you can't hear him better. The Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley (Author) Tempest Landry, an everyman African American, is “accidentally” killed by a cop. Denied access to heaven because of what he considers a few minor transgressions, Tempest refuses to go to hell. Stymied, Saint Peter sends him back to Harlem, where a guiding angel tries to convince him to accept Saint Peter's judgment, and even the Devil himself tries to win over Tempest’s soul. Through the street-smart Landry, Mosley poses the provocative question: Is sin for blacks the same as it is for whites? And who gets to decide? ISBN-10: 1574780433 ISBN-13: 978-1574780437