NBAF Hosts ‘Blacklisted’ Banned Book Fair In Atlanta

by Nahlah Abdur-Rahman

February 22, 2024

The Nationwide Black Arts Pageant is internet hosting its Blacklisted! E-book Truthful and Convention this Black Historical past Month as guide bans throughout the nation unfold.

The Nationwide Black Arts Pageant (NBAF) is spreading consciousness this Black Historical past Month on the assault in opposition to banned books throughout america. The group is internet hosting its first-ever Blacklisted! Banned E-book Truthful and Convention in Atlanta to advertise controversial books.

The guide truthful takes place Feb. 24 to 25, with an expansive listing of programming to encourage studying throughout all genres, authors, and age teams. The convention will function an Indie Black guide marketplace for attendees to buy books which are being banned throughout states and faculties, in addition to interactive exhibitions on the historical past of banned works from Black, LGBTQIA+ and different marginalized authors.

Blacklisted! will talk about the rise of guide bans with panelists Nic Stone, Tayari Jones, Feminista Jones and Dr. Akinyele Umoja. Panels will cowl matters starting from Afro-Futurism to activism in opposition to censorship.

Blacklisted! emerges amid a rising development of guide bans and restricted historical past classes across the plight of Black individuals in addition to the reality round American enslavement, as BLACK ENTERPRISE beforehand coated. In states corresponding to Florida, new laws, corresponding to its “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice, permits for public faculties to authorize books, typically written by authors of colour, to be forbidden from being taught within the classroom on the grounds that their content material is “inappropriate.”

Blacklisted! will supply family-centered actions, corresponding to youth readings by numerous authors and showcases of aspiring writers from an area highschool. Alongside a movie screening of Toni Morrison’s The Items I Am and teenage workshops, the two-day occasion is stuffed with assets and engagements match for everybody.

Along with being an area to converse and be a patron to numerous studying, NBAF’s Blacklisted! E-book Truthful is a name to motion to fight the restriction of books that problem establishment. Free registration is offered now.

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