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The Wheatley Awards
Reinventing 21st Century Culture
THE PHILLIS WHEATLEY AWARDS
In Association with Penguin USA, the National & Dallas African American Read-In, & American Legacy Magazine
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard @West 135th Street
Soloist: Angie Zee (A Change Is Gonna Come)
Award Hosts: Haki Madhubuti & Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
Honorees:
Sekou Sundiata (Posthumous)
Abiodun Oyewole (Founder of the Last Poets)
Catherine Achonolu (Flora Nwapa Award)
Carla Ranger (Dallas African American Read-In)
Dr. Jerrie Scott (National African American Read-In)
Program Host: Helena D. Lewis
Program: The Per Verse Poets
Jamaal St. John
Tantra
Ainsley Burrows
Concert by The Tyrone Birkett Group
VIP Reception: 6:00pm – 7:30pm (By Invitation Only)
Tyrone Birkett Group Concert: 6:30 – 7:15
Awards Program: 7:30pm – 9:00pm
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HONOREES: Haki Madhubuti (TWP - 40 years); W. Paul Coates (Black Classic Press - 30 years); Kassahun Checole (Africa World Press - 25 years); Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson (Just Us Books - 20 years); Tony Rose (Amber Books - 10 years); and introducing the Flora Nwapa Award for Excellence in African Letters and Dr. Osonye Tess Onwueme as our inaugural recipient.
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JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST ANNUAL FUNDRAISING EVENT
The Wheatley Book Awards celebrates 40 Years of Black Book Publishing, a red carpet, award program and reception for the founders of modern black publishing (and those who followed their footsteps), as the formal opening event of the 2008 10th Anniversary of the Harlem Book Fair. Join Authors, Celebrities, Publishers & Readers Like You.
WHEN: Friday, July 18
DOORS OPEN 7:00pm | AWARDS 7:30pm
WHERE: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem New York
DRESS: Evening Casual
SEATING:
For additional information call 212.348.1681.
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