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ELEGBA FOLKLORE SOCIETY & UBUS BOOKS & THINGS
Present
MALCOLM X
DAY BLACK BOOK EXPOSITION
Saturday, May 18 - Sunday, May 19 â Richmond,
Virginia


UBUS and Elegba Folklore Society are combining forces to
present the
largest Black Literature Expo of the century.  After years of
breakdowns
in plans, by others, to put the Capital City of Richmond, Virginia on the
Black Books Map, arguably the largest, most effective
cultural
organization is connecting to, perhaps, the largest Black publisher in the
history of Black people to get the job done.

The Exposition
will feature a vast, awesome display of Black literature.
It will feature
must-haves, Carter G. Woodson's MisEducation of the Negro
and Elijah
Muhammad's Message to the Blackman to Ivan Van Sertima's Before
the Mayflower
and The Souls of Black Folk. This classic by W. E. B. DeBois
may well sound
of the theme, as Black writers, publisher and distributors
come to Richmond
for the Malcolm X Day Expo.  Attendees can also choose
from a variety of
novels and children's books.

This book event happens from 10a - 8p on
Saturday and 2p - 6p on Sunday at
Elegba Folklore Society's Cultural Center,
downtown in the RVA Arts
District at 101 East Broad Street (corner of 1st
& Broad).  Live jazz and
refreshments will spice the Malcolm X Day Black
Book Exposition on
Saturday evening.

Celebrity Guest Authors will make
presentations at the Exposition, and
there will be Independent Black
Writers.  These writers will come, for the
most part, from the publishing
house of UBUS.

All Black writers are respectfully invited to send books
to be sold at the
Expo, or attend and participate.

Elegba Folklore
Society, Richmond's Cultural Ambassador, was founded by
Sister Omilade Janine
Bell, whose signature spectacular career as a
cultural artist, folklorist and
producer was the springboard used to form
the Society in 1990.  Elegba
Folklore Society is known worldwide for its
three annual cultural festivals,
dance theatre and music performing and
teaching programs, cultural history
tours along the Trail of Enslaved
Africans and other notable sites and
exhibits of African Diasporic art in
its cultural center. www.efsinc.org

United Brothers and
United Sisters Communications Systems was founded by
H. Khalif Khalifah in
Harlem, New York in 1975. A Master Printer, Khalifah
has plied his trade into
the publication of more than 600 different
titles.  Fundamentally, he is the
catalyst that reconstructed the book
buying habits of Black people.  Without
a marketplace to receive his and
his colleagues' publications, he built and
grew a comprehensive Black Book
Industry.

UBUS has promoted and
sponsored dozens of national book events, published
Your Black Books Guide
and has presented the Black Book Achievement Awards
for Excellence in Black
Literature in 19 installments on the first weekend
of June.  This event has
happened in recent years at The Nat Turner
Library in Southampton County.  www.black-e-books.com

Among the
Yoruba, Elegba is the Orisa who opens the roads, bringing
clarity our of
confusion.  We hope our programs and services are, indeed,
road-opening
experiences.  Embrace the Spirit!


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KHA / UBUS Books & Things Plus
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Master List of books that were
written, by for or about Black people. Buy
the ebook for your phone. or buy
the paper/hard back book for your library
at www.black-e-books.com