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This year’s South Florida Book Festival at the African-American Research Library & Cultural Center (AARLCC) is better than ever, with an exciting lineup of authors, journalists, speakers and presenters. On July 22nd from 10AM to 5PM, there will be a full day of free book presentations, panel discussions, book signings, workshops and more. There will also be three ticketed events throughout the week. The South Florida Book Festival Caribbean Food and Rum Taste of the Island party is an age 21 and over event taking place on July 18th from 6:30 to 9:30PM. Special guests include Chef Irie (Hugh A. Sinclair) and Cynthia “Chef Thia” Verna, cookbook authors and stars of the PBS Television’s Taste the Islands program. Guests can meet the chefs and enjoy island-inspired cuisine, tropical cocktails, dancing and live music. Aspiring writers can join prominent author Angela Henry at her mystery-writing workshop on July 21st at 1:30PM. The Evening with the Literary Stars reception will also be held on July 21st from 6:30 to 9:30PM. Guests can meet Festival authors and enjoy live music, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Each guest will receive a signed book of their choice from one of the Festival authors. Tickets are $10 for the Taste of the Island and the mystery-writing workshop. Tickets for the Evening with the Literary Stars are $30 online and $35 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at Eventbrite or at the door.
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2017 South Florida Book Festival Authors, Guest Speakers and Presenters Wesley Lowery is a national reporter who covers law enforcement, justice, race and politics. He previously covered Congress and national politics. Prior to joining the Washington Post in February 2014, he worked as a breaking news and local politics reporter for the Boston Globe, and has also reported for the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. In 2014, he was named the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Emerging Journalist of the Year.” He was a lead on the Post’s “Fatal Force” project that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2016 as well as the author of They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement (Little, Brown, 2016). In 2017, he became a CNN political contributor. Kevin Belton is the star of the PBS cooking series, New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton, author of Big Flavors of New Orleans and an instructor at the New Orleans School of Cooking. He was recently recognized by the American Culinary Federation as one of the top chefs in Louisiana. cont.