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MALIK BOOKS & PAFF JOIN FORCES FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH
BLACK-OWNED, INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE BRINGS THE LOVE OF READING TO THE 31ST ANNUAL PAN AFRICAN FILM & ARTS FESTIVAL
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 1, 2023) – For Black History Month, Malik Books is excited to bring the love of reading to the 31st Annual Pan African Festival & Arts Festival. During the film festival’s run, the black-owned, independent bookstore will host a book-signing and Q&A featuring attorney and television personality Eboni K. Williams, author of BET ON BLACK: THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT BEING BLACK IN AMERICA TODAY. The book calls for Black people worldwide to adopt a fresh, highly-informed mindset that will change lives. Devyn Bakewell, who serves as assistant managing editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel and the Los Angeles Watts, and a romance novelist – the author of GREATER LOVE and GREATER LIFE — will serve as a moderator.Audiences may be familiar with Williams thanks to her appearances on ABC’s “The View” and Season 13 of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York.” In her new book, BET ON BLACK, Williams delves into some of the cornerstones of leading a first-class Black life, ranging from knowing one’s history to understanding the power of representation to investing in the sometimes challenging processes of success. As Williams writes in her introduction, “Black excellence is as much an individual journey as a collective one. I will admit that my belief in what I consider to be a fundamental truth about the place of Blackness in our society didn’t come effortlessly. My own road to embracing who I am and what I can do has been met with many obstacles in my career and personal life, a couple of which I’ll share with you. At one point in my education and career, I thought it would be easier to make myself smaller. But over time, I’ve learned how to stay true to my ideals, and Black foundation, so becoming small was no longer a viable option.” “We are excited to collaborate with the Pan African Film Festival in celebrating Black culture,” said Malik Muhammad, who founded Malik Books in 1990 at the corner of Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards before moving to the mall four years later. “Our bookstore provides a vehicle where people can embrace their Blackness and educate and empower themselves to connect with their African American heritage. Without censorship, a person can explore his or her own Blackness and be enlightened through the pages of hundreds of books at Malik Books.”
About Devyn Bakewell
Devyn is an activist for the Black community, advocates for women and children, and is a Romance novelist who believes Greater Love can lead to a Greater Life. In her debut novel, “Greater Love,” Devyn connects with people by bringing them closer through shared experiences. Devyn hopes that through her literary work, she can improve the plight of black youth, women, and anyone who faces systemic oppression. With Greater Life, she continues the conversation.
About PAFF
PAFF is one of the largest and most prestigious Black film festivals in the United States, taking place February 9-20, 2023, in Los Angeles. It attracts local, national, and international audiences as the nation’s largest Black History Month cultural event. PAFF presents and showcases a broad spectrum of Black creative works, particularly those that reinforce positive images and help to destroy negative stereotypes of Africans and African Americans. Since 1992, PAFF has remained dedicated to promoting Black stories and images through the exhibition of film, visual art, and other creative expressions. Most importantly, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has designated PAFF as an official qualifying film festival for live-action and animation short films. Visit PAFF.org.
About Malik Books
Malik Books is a black-owned, independent bookstore specializing in books, calendars, cards, and gifts full of cultural diversity. This bookstore is a rare gem and offers a unique experience to its customers. Book loves can find all the hottest and best sellers of today, as well as hard-to-find books, or upon request, special order more than 12 million book titles. Malik Books served as the official bookseller of the 2022 Leimert Park Village Book Fair. Malik Books offer two locations – the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza and Westfield Culver City. Visit MalikBooks.com.
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Howard Bloom – The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong – New Book Coming in 2025
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is the latest book of paradigm-challenges from Howard Bloom, the man Britain’s Channel 4 TV calls the Einstein, Newton, Darwin and Freud of the 21st century. And the Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong just may turn your existing view of yourself and of the universe you live in upside down and inside out.
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos says that we’ve got nature all wrong. The Sexual Cosmos tells the tale of the universe from the big bang to what’s going on in your brain as you read this sentence, unmasking a startling face of the evolutionary saga. Nature is green in tooth and claw.
In The Case of the Sexual Cosmos’ meticulously-researched telling of the evolutionary story, life does not live in harmony with nature. Far from it. Life does not take nature lying down. Life is obstreperous. Life is uppity. Life is impertinent. Life is not a mere survivor. Life is a doomrider and a catastrophe tamer. Life takes nature apart and puts her back together in whole new ways. Nature uses life to reinvent herself.
What’s more, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos proposes a scientific paradigm shift. The book argues that it’s time to toss out one of science’s most cherished concepts, The Second Law of Thermodynamics. The law that all things fall apart. The Case of the Sexual Cosmos proposes that the Second Law be replaced by The First Law of Flamboyance. The law that things do not just fall apart. They fall together.
And The Case of the Sexual Cosmos shows what this means to your life and mine.
MacArthur Genius Award winner Richard Foreman says The Case Of The Sexual Cosmos is “a massive achievement. Wow!” BBC-TV producer of seven science series including Connections, James Burke, calls The Case of the Sexual Cosmos “a triumph…full of surprises, unexpected connections, [and] complexifying outcomes ” Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society Gregory Matloff calls The Case of the Sexual Cosmos “a masterwork.”
Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian Institution says that The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is “enjoyable and compelling.” And Harvard’s Ellen Langer says that The Case of the Sexual Cosmos is “a fascinating read…….[Bloom] argues that we are not savaging the earth as some would have it, but instead are growing the cosmos.”
Concludes novelist Helen Zuman, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos pulls “us out of Greta Thunberg’s self-hate machine” and shows that, “The true tragedy is not war or climate catastrophe. It’s rejecting the exuberant flamboyance of exactly who we are.”
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Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. One of his eight books–Global Brain—was the subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defense including representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. A former Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Graduate Psychology Department, a former Core Faculty member at the Graduate Institute in Meriden, Connecticut, and the current Kepler Space University Professor of Practice, Bloom has been published in journals or has spoken at scholarly conferences in twelve different scientific fields, from quantum physics and cosmology to neuroscience, information theory, and biopolitics. He calls this multi-disciplinary approach “Omnology.” Concludes Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution’s End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, “I have finished Howard Bloom’s [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom’s on the planet.”
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