Producer Cynthia Exum expects over 5,000 festival attendees.
Former editor-in-chief of Essence magazine Susan L. Taylor, economist Dr. Julianne Malveaux, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist-turned-author Isabel Wilkerson headline this years event.
Over 150 celebrity readings, book signings, writing workshops, panel discussions, poetry readings, stage performances and musical acts will entertain during this day-long celebration.
Other celebrities-personalities-turned-authors added to the main stage lineup include:
Isaiah Washington – an award-winning actor, Isaiah Washington is best known for his role of Dr. Preston Burke on the hit TV show “Grey’s Anatomy, ” and the media firestorm that ensued after an alleged conflict onset. But, the conflict that by far matters most to Washington is much more personal. Revealed in his new memoir, “A Man From Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life” (Center Street/Hachette Book Group), Washington details an inner struggle for identity finally fulfilled through DNA testing and outlines his ongoing campaign to improve his newfound homeland – Sierra Leone.
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Catching Up With Todd Bridges -- The former child star—best known as Willis Jackson on “Diff’rent Strokes” — shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true identity in his memoir “Killing Willis: From Diff'rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted ” (Touchstone). One of the first African-American child actors on shows like “Little House on the Prairie”, “The Waltons”, and “Roots,” Bridges burst to the national forefront on the hit sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” as the subject of the popular catchphrase, "What’chu Talkin About Willis?"
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