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New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)

This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.

A Million Aunties

American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland.

The Family Mansion

An illuminating and unflinching novel exploring England’s 19th-century colonization of Jamaica.

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Curdella Forbes — Temple Sinai (Washington, DC)

3/25/23, 2:00pm

Challenging Lives, Extraordinary Stories: Curdella Forbes presents A Tall History of Sugar. Tickets are available here.

Lucy Jane Bledsoe – Fabulosa Books (San Francisco, CA)

3/30/23, 7:00pm

Lucy Jane Bledsoe presents Tell the Rest, in conversation with Marvin K. White

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