Freedom to Publish: Dr. Haki Madhubuti and Chris Jackson | Schomburg Center Literary Festival

The Schomburg Center Literary Festival expands the center's long tradition of championing authors of African descent from across the globe and publications that celebrate Black history and culture. Day 3: Freedom to Publish As news outlets laud a new Black renaissance in the visual and literary arts, Dr. Haki Madhubuti, founder and publisher of Third World Press and Chris Jackson, publisher and editor-in-chief of One World, discuss the challenges and freedoms that come with choosing what gets published and subverting dominant narratives. ABOUT THE PARTICIPANT (S) CHRIS JACKSON is the publisher and editor-in-chief of One World, an imprint of Random House. He’s the editor of a wide range of award-winning and bestselling authors, including Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jill Leovy, Trevor Noah, Karla Cornejo-Villavicencio, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, Heather McGhee, Alicia Garza, Valarie Kaur, and Eddie Huang. His own writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Callalloo, The Atlantic.com, and other outlets. He lives in New York. DR. HAKI R. MADHUBUTI, a leading poet and one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, is a publisher, editor and educator, who has been a pivotal figure in the development of a strong Black literary tradition. He has published more than 31 books (some under his former name, Don L. Lee) and is one of the world’s best-selling authors of poetry and non-fiction. His Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition (1990) has sold more than 1 million copies. Selected titles include: Don’t Cry, Scream! (1969); Tough Notes: A Healing Call for Creating Exceptional Black Men (2002); Run Toward Fear (2004); Yellow Black: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life, A Memoir (2006); Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966-2009 (2009); Honoring Genius: Gwendolyn Brooks: The Narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice (2011) and By Any Means Necessary, Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented (co-editor, 2012). Two book-length critical studies on Madhubuti’s literary works are Malcolm X and the Poetics of Haki Madhubuti by Regina Jennings (2006) and Art of Work: The Art and Life of Haki R. Madhubuti by Lita Hooper (2007). His poetry and essays were published in more than 90 anthologies and journals from 1997 to 2016. Madhubuti’s book, Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century America, was released Spring 2016. Professor Madhubuti is a proponent of independent Black institutions. He founded Third World Press in 1967. He is a founder of the Institute of Positive Education/New Concept School (1969), and a cofounder of Betty Shabazz International Charter School (1998), Barbara A. Sizemore Middle School (2005), and DuSable Leadership Academy (2005), all of which are in Chicago. The Schomburg Center Literary Festival is generously sponsored by: Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation New York Life Foundation SCHOMBURG SHOP Readers everywhere who wish to order copies of books featured during the festival and more, can do so online at The Schomburg Shop: https://schomburgshop.com/products/ma... All proceeds benefit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.