::ABOUT US::

The Los Angeles Black Book Expo is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 2004 to advance African world community literary and spoken word activity governed by an executive circle and administered by an executive director .

In June 2004 and 2005 the Los Angeles Black Book Expo was held at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center ( 3980 S. Menlo Avenue) in Los Angeles, California, and has thus become an essential public forum to share information and resources concerning the independent African and African American press and electronic medium in the U.S. and around the world. LABBX 2008 will keep this focus via the sponsoring or co-sponsoring of related events throughout the year, and remaining a free community-based enterprise that provides opportunity to a diverse population. Amen-Ra Community Assembly of California, Inc. (Amen-Ra Theological Seminary) is the 501(c) (3) fiscal sponsor of the Los Angeles Black Book Expo.

LABBX Mission

• expose the public to a wide variety of independently published books;
• focus on independent authors, editors and publishers;
• establish an annual expo;
• encourage reading; assist in reducing illiteracy;
• showcase authors, editors, publishers, scholars, writers, performing artists involved in the written/spoken word;
• promote books, magazines, literary journals, newspapers, CD/DVD products, new publishing technology and services;
• establish African and African American book industry professionals;
• create a market-place for the exhibition and promotion of African and African American books, periodicals, publishing, and new knowledge initiatives;
• host workshops, seminars, and other cultural events that promote reading and the exchange of new ideas and information;
• facilitate reader satisfaction;
• promote professionalism and fair practice in the book industry;
• facilitate dynamic and vibrant cultural events;
• provide quality service to all event participants;
• uphold the right of full access to books and other information centered data relevant to the African world community;
• uphold the right to freedom of expression and the full exchange of information through books and other reading resources;
• be a catalyst for African and African American book development initiatives;
• facilitate a progressive book development agenda that involves publishers, writers, scholars, librarians, booksellers, printers, editors and others;
• assist other literary events to allow all sectors of the enterprise to develop to their full capacity;
• achieve financial independence, and self-sufficiency.

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