Although, I was unable to attend the Harlem Book Fair this year, I did what the panel discussions aired on Book TV C-Span. Unfortunately, I can not tell you they will be televised again, but I believe you can view them via the Harlem Book Fair homesite.

Watching these panels have inspired the subjects for the weeks show in Chatting with Shanise B.'s 'The State of Me In The World' . Some of the issues I will touch on will be:

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Symbolism;
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Civil Rights;
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The Hip Hop Generation;
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The 'New' Way of Oppression;
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Education;
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Our 40 Acres and a Mule;
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Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Slave Trade;
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and a few other issue, had I been there I would have raised;

There were a number a books that I have added to my wishlist and to The Book Nook.