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Booksigning and panel discussion with celebrity photographer Carell Augustus and celebrities featured in the iconic book, Black Hollywood.Malik Books and Pan African Film Festival join forces to present an evening of Black History. Black-Owned, Independent Book Store Brings the Love of Reading to the Pan African Film Festival with Panel Discussion and Booksigning featuring celebrity photographer Carell Augustus, Author of "Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments" Mon Feb 13, 2023 at 7PM Malik Books - Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall 3650 W M.L King Blvd Los Angeles, Ca 90008Free Admission. Pre-Ordering book is strongly encouraged. Order at MalikBooks.comCarell along with celebrities featured in the book will host a booksigning and panel discussion about classic Hollywood with today's iconic Black entertainers. This coffee table photo book features over sixty-five Black entertainers. CONFIRMED CELEBRITIES: To Be Announced!Link to Pre Order - Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell AugustusOnce Upon a Time in Black HollywoodBlack Hollywood: Reimaging Iconic Movie Moments is a groundbreaking take on Hollywood's most beloved films, including Breakfast at Tiffany's, Singin' in the Rain, Mission: Impossible, Forrest Gump, and more. Carell, a visionary, has created a "who's who" of today's Black entertainers featured in iconic cinematic scenes, renewing readers' Read More ...

Join Bel Canto Books as we celebrate the launch of AND OTHER MISTAKES by debut author Erika Turner with C.B. Lee (A CLASH OF STEEL).Bel Canto Books is honored to host the book launch of AND OTHER MISTAKES by debut author Erika Turner. Erika will be joined conversation by C.B. Lee, author of A CLASH OF STEEL.RSVP required; please select the ticket option that best fits your group. Attendees will be required to follow all current COVID-19 restrictions. This is an outdoor event in the garden at The Hangout (2122 E 4th Street, LB).ABOUT THE BOOKA teenage girl deals with insecurities, a stressful family life, tension with friends, and being on the cross-country team, in And Other Mistakes—a debut Young Adult coming-of-age novel by Erika Turner about accepting one’s selfABOUT THE AUTHORErika Turner is a writer, a poet, and the daughter of storytellers. Sometimes, she writes songs she may one day share. Once, in a Brooklyn community center, she read James Baldwin's quote "You can't tell the children there's no hope," and she carries those words from the city to the desert and beyond. She lives in California with her family and a dog who is suspicious of stationary street Read More ...

BET On BLACK: The Good News About Being Black in America Today with Actress, Media Personality and Author Eboni K WilliamsMalik Books Presents in partnership with PAFF 2023BET On BLACK: The Good News About Being Black in America Today. Discussion and Booksigning with Eboni K Williams Moderator: Devyn Bakewell - Author & Assistant Managing Editor Los Angeles Sentinel/Los Angeles Watts Times Wednesday February 15, 2023 at 7PMMalik Books - (Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall) 3650 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Ste 245 Los Angeles, Ca 90008. Event Format: Discussion, Q & A, and Booksigning Ticket: Includes Admission and one Book (BET On BLACK)BET On BLACK: The Good News About Being Black in America TodayJournalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success.Eboni K. Williams knew that an important part of her mission as a media personality would be to unabashedly place Blackness on a pedestal. Williams has long known that Blackness is a rich, expansive place that centers resilience, excellence, beauty, panache, and brilliance. But these notions of Blackness have long been distorted by American racism, where for generations Read More ...

Venue: The Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Join three incredible Bay Area poets at the famed Hotel Utah Saloon for an evening of live poetry!Atsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, a finalist for PEN America’s Voelcker Poetry Award, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2021, and a Bookworm Top 10 Book of the Year. His first book Romey’s Order was the winner of the Whiting Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress, and a Lannan Literary Award. Riley is the editor of Revel, a literary journal. He lives in San Francisco. Patrick Phillips is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Writers at the New York Public Library, as well as a Carnegie Foundation Fellow. His first book of nonfiction, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, was published by W. W. Norton and named a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Smithsonian. Elegy for a Broken Machine appeared in the Knopf Poets Read More ...

A celebration of The Certain Body (Four Way Books, 2022) by Julia GuezIn the long limbo of post-viral syndrome, Julia Guez aptly frames the recursive paralysis of pandemic rhetoric, whose seeming transitions always arrive at the same uncertainty: “and then what / and then / what, what / then.” The Certain Body captures life with illness—how the body moves through disease and rests in the liminal space of otherness. Following the speaker through a harrowing and disorienting SARS-Cov-2 infection, readers witness the poet’s gradual refortification as Guez traverses all facets of sickness: its mercies, its pleasures, its gratitudes, its reliefs, its gorgeousnesses. Probing, sharp poems centering an awareness of human ephemerality answer the words of Viktor Shklovsky: “And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.” In “If Indeed I Am Ill,” Guez writes, “These sonatas, these scores, tell me / what of them will last when everything falls away—” Through these lyric expressions, Guez shows us not just how art can heal but how healing is art, a modality of acceptance, the meaning in the process, a mosaic of imperfections that creates and embraces what Read More ...