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Austin’s African American Book Festival

Austin’s African American Book Festival

By Ujima Magazine on May 20, 2010

The fourth Annual Austin African American Book Festival will feature the 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts.  This year’s theme is “Black Men Writers Inspiring Change”. The event is Saturday, June 26, 2010 and will take place on the grounds of the Carver Branch Library and the Carver Museum and [...]

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A Black Mississippi

A Black Mississippi

By Damita on March 18, 2010

Catching Up with Shirlean Simmons-Devine, author of “A Black Mississippi.”
Shirlean Simmons-Devine is a new writer in Austin. She has written a book called “Black Mississippi.” Devine started writing in 1999 and it took ten years for her to complete her first novel. It took a while because she was raising a son alone, who has [...]

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[Book] Dopke Ogunsanya

[Book] Dopke Ogunsanya

By Ujima Magazine on March 18, 2010

1.  How long have you been a writer?  Where did you get your passion?
I have been a writer since my elementary school days…I love print media and was always fascinated by story books.  Writing to me is like an art and I can get very creative with vivid imagination…”Imagination is more important than knowledge.  Knowledge [...]

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