NBAF presents Blacklisted!

The Luxe List Atlanta & NBAF’s Black History Month Program celebrates the African American authors creating work that challenges the status quo and speaks truth to power with a mini book fair and conference: Blacklisted! Banned Books Fair. Since as far back as Reconstruction, Black writing in the United States has been widely treated as obscene, seditious, and even dangerous. The repression of Black authors has never really stopped; however, this campaign has roared back into life with a relentless recent effort to remove Black-authored books from our collective history. More than 1,600 books were banned in 138 school districts across 32 states between 2021 and 2022, according to a report by PEN America. The vast majority of challenged and banned books feature BIPOC or LGBTQ+ characters, discuss gender, sexuality, and race in America, or are written by Black and POC authors. By celebrating and sharing these authors' works, we push back on the erasure of Black voices, histories, and perspectives in the formation of our national identity. February 24 · 12pm - 6pm February 25 · 12pm - 6pm Loudermilk Conference Center 40 Courtland St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303 ABOUT: www.nbaf.org/black-history-month 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨: - 𝙈𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨 & 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙨 - 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨 - 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙝 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣’𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 - 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣-𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨 - 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙝𝙤𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙨, 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙨 & 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚!