Schedule: Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Authors' Pavilion

CBC Authors' Pavilion features the work of African American authors.  See this week's schedule below.

(Caucus Pavilion Hours: 12:00pm – 7:00pm)

Thursday, Sept. 20 - Saturday, Sept. 22
Highlights include; General Colin Powell, Dr. Bernice King, Congressman John Lewis, Alexis Herman, Dr. Julianne Malveaux, Dwayne Wade, Judy Smith (ABC's Show, Scandal), Zane, Ledisi, MC Lyte, Russ Parr, Etan Thomas, Lamman Rucker, Mikki Taylor, Chef Charles Mattocks, Global leader Ivy McGregor and many more.
Washington, DC Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E – BOOTH – 521  Presented by The Renaissance Group, The Hurston Wright Foundation, Howard University and Master of CeremonyPatrick Oliver Founder of Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thursday, September 20th
12:00pm – 2:00pm (AUTHOR MEET & GREETS)

1. Congressman John Lewis - Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change
2. George Derek Musgrove - Rumor, Repression and Racial Politics How Harassment of Black Elected
   Officials Shaped Post Civil Rights America
3. Patricia Duncan - A Defining Moment Barack Obama
4. Monda Raquel Webb – Red Clay Dirt & Mountains
5. Lutishia Lovely – Love Like Hallelujah
6. Andra Gillespie – The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America

12:30pm – 2:00pm HEATLH & WELLNESS PANEL
In Pursuit of a Healthier Black America: Where do we stand in the 21st Century?
Moderator: Dr. Baruch Ben Yehudah – Dedicated to healing people from health related issues caused by poor diet, stress, lack of exercise and educational awareness on controlling ones health, Dr. Baruch developed a revolutionary concept called "Eat the Cure." From his wealth of knowledge developed over 20 years "Eat the Cure" shows us how we can cure ourselves from virtually every known ailment by taking a proactive approach to what we allow to enter our bodies.
Panelists:

1. Eleanor Hinton Hoytt – Health First! The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide
2. Isabel M. Estrada Portales - Ph.D., M.S. Director, Communications of Care Continuum Alliance
3. JJ Smith - Lose Weight Without Dieting or Working Out!
4. Nwenna Kai - The Goddess of Raw Foods
5. Michelle Gourdine - Reclaiming Our Health: A Guide to African American Wellness

2:00pm - 4:00pm (AUTHOR MEET & GREETS)

1. Judy Smith (Executive Producer and subject of ABC’s hit series “Scandal”) - Good Self, Bad Self:
   Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets – APPEARANCE TIME 2:30PM
2. Shirley Sherrod – The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear
3. Alicia Singleton – Dark Side of Valor A Novel of Suspense
4. Lucinda Cross – Road to Redemption
5. Lutishia Lovely – Love Like Hallelujah
6. Ivy McGregor – IV: Life
7. Monica D. Cost – The Things I Used to do to Sneeze! How to live an authentic life
8. Victoria Christopher Murray – Destiny’s Divas A Novel
9. Zane – Chocolate Flava 3
10. Sahar Simmons: All About Me (Briana's Neighborhood) CHILDREN’S SERIES

11. Ivy Pendleton - Good Girl's Guide to Public Relations, Publicity and Marketing. A HOW-TO Guide for
the Novice
12. W. Wilson Goode, Sr, Charles E. Lewis Jr., Harold Dean Trulear – Ministry with Prisoners & Families The Way Forward

Schedule Subject to Change 1

Thursday, September 20th (Pavilion Hours 12:00pm – 7:00pm) cont’
4:00pm – 6:00pm HURSTON WRIGHT FOUNDATION PRESENTSPreserving Our Story in the Digital Age: Keeping Up with the ever changing demands of today’s readers!
Moderator: Ella Curry, President of EDC Creations Media Group the parent company of the Sankofa Literary Society, the Black Authors Network Radio Show and Black Pearls Magazine
Panelists:

1. Mikki Taylor - Commander in Chic: Every Woman's Guide to Managing Her Style Like a First Lady
2. Leonard Pitts – Freeman,
3. Jaunique Sealey – Piece of the Fame: Rockstar Social Media Marketing Strategy
4. Charisse Carney-Nunes – Nappy
5. Alice Randall – Ada Rules
6. Charles Reese – James Baldwin A Soul on Fire

5:00pm – 7:00pm (AUTHOR MEET & GREETS)

1. Dr. Tiffany Gill – Beauty Shop Politics African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
2. SundariMoneek Reid – Nigus Images of Ourselves Vol. 1
3. Lutishia Lovely – Love Like Hallelujah
4. Jacqueline Luckett – Passing Love
5. Celia Anderson – Daddy’s Home

Schedule Subject to Change 2

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Author Pavilion 2012
Washington, DC Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E – BOOTH - 521 Presented by The Renaissance Group, The Hurston Wright Foundation, Howard University and Master of CeremonyPatrick Oliver Founder of Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday, September 21st (Pavilion Hours 9:00AM – 6:00PM)
12:00pm – 1:30pm (POETRY PANEL)Poetry, Politics and the New Black: How poems and poets of resistance during the 60s helped to create some of the most interesting poetry of the new millennium
Moderator: Randall Horton --author of The Definition of Place and the Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. He is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks, Bea Gonzalez Poetry Awards and most recently a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. Randall is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Haven.
Panelists:

1. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman – Words of PROTEST, Words of FREEDOM Poetry of the American Civil
   Rights Movement and Era
2. Truth Thomas – Speak Water
3. Jacqueline Jones LaMon – Last Scene
4. Frank X Walker - Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride

12:30pm – 2:30pm (AUTHOR MEET & GREETS)

1. Marcus Sebastian Mason a.k.a. Sebastian Cheney - All the King's Horses
2. Regina Brooks – You Should Really Write a Book
3. Alicia Singleton – Dark Side of Valor A Novel of Suspense
4. Brenda J. Medley - Dealing with Life’s Issues
5. Kenrya Rankin – Start It Up The Complete Teen Business Guide To Turning Your Passions into Pay
6. R. Kayeen Thomas - Antebellum

1:30pm – 3:00pm SAY IT LOUD! READERS & WRITERS SERIES PRESENTSThe Black Dollar: The Challenges and Opportunities in a $963 Billion Dollar Market
Moderator: Lynn Richardson is an author, entrepreneur and financial coach. With over a decade of leading roles in the banking and real estate sales industries, she is also the author of Living Check to Monday: The Real Deal About Money, Credit and Financial Security. Lynn has been featured in countless media outlets nationwide. She leads MC Lyte's foundation and one of Russell Simmons' foundations.
Panelists:

1. Dr. Julianne Malveaux - Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History
2. Maggie Anderson - Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided
   Economy
3. Dorothy F. Bailey – In a Different Light Reflections and Beauty of Wise Women of Color/Maryland,
4. Pepper Miller – Black Still Matters In Marketing
5. Hadassah Hickman - The Urban Girls Guide to Small Business Funding

Schedule Subject to Change 3

Friday, September 21st (Pavilion Hours 9:00AM – 6:00PM) cont’
3:00p.m. – 4:30p.m (AUTHOR MEET & GREETS)

1. General Colin Powell - It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
2. Alexis Herman – Living with Purpose: An Activist’s guide to Listening and Leading, 100th Birthday
   Edition
3. Celebrity Chef Charles Mattocks - Eat Cheap But Eat Well Presented by the American Diabetes Association
4. Rachel Swarns - American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama
5. Christopher Gaskins – Liberation of Fear and Love A Collection of Poetry
6. Dorothy Cotton - If Your Back's Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil
   Rights Movement
7. Bernice King - Desert Rose
8. Jacqueline Luckett – Passing Love
9. Lutishia Lovely – Love Like Hallelujah
10. Shelia Banks – BitterSweet A Novel Based on a True Story
11. SundariMoneek Reid – Nigus Images of Ourselves Vol. 1
12. Tracey Syphax - From the Block to the Boardroom

4:30pm – 6:00pm SAY IT LOUD! READERS & WRITERS SERIES PRESENTS
The Power of Music from a Historical, Cultural & Spiritual Perspective
Moderator: Brother Ah (Robert Northern) -- Founder of The World Community School of Music / Founder and Artistic Director - The World Music Ensemble, a performing group with musicians and dancers from the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe. Musician, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator in Western and non-western musical traditions. He has composed and directed numerous extended works. As a French hornist he has played and recorded with musical greats including Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Sun Ra, Dizzy Gillespie, Eric Dolphy, Max Roach, John Lewis and many more.

1. Ledisi – Essence Presents Ledisi Better Than Alright
2. MC Lyte – UNSTOPPABLE: Igniting the Power Within
3. Natalie Hopkinson – Go-Go Live The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
4. Obery Hendricks – The Universe Bends Towards Justice: Radical Reflections on the Bible, the Church,
   and the Body Politic

AUTHOR MEET & GREET
Dr. Ivory A. Toldson - Black People Don't Read: The Definitive Guide to Dismantling Stereotypes and Negative Statistical claims about Black Americans (Volume 1)

Schedule Subject to Change 4

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Author Pavilion 2012 Washington, DC Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E – BOOTH - 521
Presented by The Renaissance Group, The Hurston Wright Foundation, Howard University and Master of CeremonyPatrick Oliver Founder of Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series
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Saturday, September 22nd (Pavilion Hours 8:00AM – 1:00 PM)
11:00am - 1:00pm AUTHOR MEET & GREETS)

1. Lori Nelson & Valerie Nelson – Hillary's Big Business Adventure & I Can Do it Myself (Children)
2. Shenay T. Perkins – I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A Journey to the White House (Children)
3. Margina Graham Parker - I am Michelle Obama: The First Lady (Children)
4. Yaba Baker – Just Like Me Book Series (children)
5. Jacqueline Luckett – Passing Love
6. Lutishia Lovely – Love Like Hallelujah
7. Do The Write Thing Youth: Kolemarte Williams, Dilexxus Mathis, Kayla Samuel, Tyler
   Rembert, Briana Miler, Dajah Clayton – Our Planets, Ourselves
8. Marion T. Lane – Patriots of African Descent in the Revolutionary War Part 1& 2 (Children)

11:00am - 1:00pm URBAN LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE PRESENTS
Demystifying the World of Black Fathers: challenging the stereotypes and public perception of African American fathers.
Moderator: David Miller, M.Ed. Chief Visionary Officer & Co-Founder Urban Leadership Institute and Changing Fatherhood and author of Khalil’s Way
Panelist:

1. Etan Thomas – Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge with special guest appearance by actor Lamman Rucker featured in Etan’s new book on Fatherhood
2. Russ Parr – The Game Behind the Game
3. Kenneth Braswell - When the Tear Won’t Fall
4. Lawrence P. Jackson - My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family after the Civil War