A backward glance.If there is a moment that captures the resonance of our accomplishments in 2004 with our magazine and in black publishing, it is the sound of the African drums accompanying the procession of exhibitors as we marched en masse en masse adv. In one group or body; all together: The protesters marched en masse to the capitol. [French : en, in + masse, mass. for the first time to the African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Publisher's Pavilion at BookExpo of America in Chicago back in June. This was only one of many milestones for Black Issues Book Review this year. Our President and Editor-in-Chief William E. Cox William Elijah Cox (September 6, 1861 - March 11, 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. Born on a farm near Birdseye, Indiana, Cox attended the common and high schools of Huntingburg and Jasper, Indiana. and our Associate Publisher Adrienne Ingrum were proud to participate in organizing the pavilion and in the founding this past spring of the National Association of Black Book Publishers. Both accomplishments are symbols of the marketing power black publishers have already achieved, which will be key in building the industry. As we near file end of 2004 and BIBR BIBR Bay Islands Beach Resort (Roatan, Honduras) BIBR Backward Indicator Bit Received prepares to celebrate our 6th anniversary this January, we look back on an extraordinary time. We have covered the broadest spectrum of cutting-edge subjects: including, the ever-increasing popularity of urban/street/hip-hop/ghetto fiction "It's Urban, It's Real, But Is This Literature?" (September-October 2004). We launched new departments and bolstered some favorites to improve coverage of books on faith, scholarship, gays and lesbians, young adults, romance and leisure--all growing genres enriched by black authors. We also chronicled the accomplishments of writers as diverse as the award-winning novelist Edward P. Jones Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. and intellectuals like Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West "Cornell West" redirects here. For the area of the Ithaca campus, see Cornell West Campus. Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American scholar and public intellectual. to urban entrepreneurs like Victoria Stringer and Carl Weber Carl Weber is a theatre director and has been Professor of drama at Stanford University since 1984. He was Bertolt Brecht's directing assistant and a dramaturg and actor at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company in 1952. . As a staff, individually or collectively, we have participated in numerous events. Bill Cox, our president, interviewed Jayson Blair, the disgraced reporter/memoirist, before an electrified, standing-room-only crowd near Washington, D.C., live on C-SPAN. Others of us stood in line for hours for the historic Bill Clinton book signing in Harlem, and we all worked our booth at BookExpo across the aisle from Zane's Strebor Books, where Zane herself met the public--live and in person. (Clinton and Zane share the distinction of having both been at the top of BIBR'S FLYING OfF THE SHELVES' list for their sales this year.) We introduced our author reading series, Black Mondays at Borders, in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and conducted a successful book dub essay contest in which the Columbia, South Carolina-based group Reading Between the Wines won a personal telephone conference session with the authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant. We have also handed out magazines at gatherings of Black Americans in Publishing, the American Library Association American Library Association, founded 1876, organization whose purpose is to increase the usefulness of books through the improvement and extension of library services. , the National Black Writers Conference, the Romance Slam Jam, the Go On Girl! Book Club national convention, the National Book Club Conference and the Sea Island Writers Retreat. Staff members have mingled with readers at book fairs in Ann Arbor, Baltimore, Harlem and Philadelphia. One thing we are especially proud of is this fall's relaunching of our Web Site, www.bibookreview.com. We think it not only has a smarter, cleaner look, but we will also be able to bring you exclusive features and breaking news--especially with our new partnerships with Target Market News' blacksandbooks.com and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. . All the while, we have worked every day to put out a great 80-page magazine, and we have been rewarded by the reactions of our readers and the growing support of our advertisers. For that we are grateful. Thank you all, and best wishes for the approaching holiday season. |
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