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Khary Lazarre-White at the Miami International Book Fair

November19 at Room 8202 (Building 8, 2nd Floor in Miami, FL

KHARY LAZARRE-WHITE is a writer, social justice advocate, attorney, and activist who has dedicated his life to the educational outcome and opportunities for young people of color. He is co-founder and executive director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. He has received awards for his work, including the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network Use Your Life Award, the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award, awards from Black Girls Rock!, the Andrew Goodman Foundation, and a Resident Fellowship Award to the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. He has written for the Huffington Post, NYU Press, Nation Books, and MSNBC.com, and has edited three books, The Brotherhood Speaks, Voices of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol, and Off the Subject.

His first novel, Passage, tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993. In Warrior’s mind, nothing is safe, not even his mind, which is haunted by the spirits of ancestors and of the demons of the system of oppression.

THE MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL, is an eight-day literary party in November. The first Miami Book Fair, founded by Miami Dade College and community partners, took place in 1984. Since then, it has been recognized as the nation’s finest literary festival.

  

The Fair, will open Sunday November 13 with the popular “Evenings With…” series, featuring six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world.

 

On Friday, the Street Fair gets under way. The highlight of the Street Fair is the Festival of Authors, with more than 450 authors reading and discussing their work, including the Latin American and Spanish authors who participate in the IberoAmerican Authors Program. Thousands of South Florida schoolchildren will help kick off the Street Fair, making the trip downtown Friday to hear authors and participate in Children’s Alley activities, including theater, arts-and-crafts, storytelling and readings by children’s book authors. Comics and graphic novels are once again featured, and a new section just for kids and teens, as well as presentations over the weekend by renowned graphic novelists and illustrators.

 

During Street Fair weekend, November 18-20, more than 250 publishers and booksellers exhibit and sell books, with special features like the antiquarians, who showcase signed first editions, original manuscripts and other collectibles.

 

November19, 4.00pm

300 NE Second Ave.
Miami, FL 33132 United States