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The <\/span>3rd Annual Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/strong> kicks-off with an evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, Jr. at the <\/span>Austin Central Library<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/strong> Friday, February 22, 2019 at 7 p.m. Pitts, a nationally syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald<\/em>, is the author <\/strong>of the new historical black novel set during World War II, The Last Thing You Surrender<\/em>. The discussion will be moderated by Hopeton Hay, host and producer of <\/span>KAZI Book Review<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/u> on KAZI 88.7 FM in Austin, and founder of the Celebration of Diverse Literary Voices of Texas. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other participating authors include Carol Anderson, author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy<\/em>, Jennifer Baker, editor of Everyday People: The Color of Life-A Short Story Anthology<\/em>; Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave in the Building of a Nation<\/em>; Nicky Drayden, author of Temper<\/em>; Carrie Fountain, author of I\u2019m Not Missing<\/em>; Jacob Grovey, author of The Differenters<\/em>; Monica Mu\u00f1oz Martinez, author of The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Texas Borderlands<\/em>; Jasminne M\u00e9ndez, author of Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e: Personal Essays & Poems<\/em>; ire\u2019ne lara silva, author of Blood Sugar Canto<\/em>; Chaitali Sen, author of The Pathless Sky<\/em>; and Natalia Sylvester, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Registration and book sales for Saturday\u2019s main event begin at 10 a.m. at Austin Central Library. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Panels begin at 10:30 a.m. with \u201cZora Neale Hurston\u2019s Barracoon: The True Story of One of the Last Known Survivors of the Atlantic Slave Trade,\u201d a special Black History Month discussion with Baker and Berry, moderated by Julie Hudson, Assistant Professor of English, Huston-Tillotson University.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other panels include \u201cFrom Roots to Bloom: Deconstructing Latinidad\u201d with Fountain, M\u00e9ndez, and lara silva, moderated by Sylvester; \u201cEveryday People: Diversity In Fantasy, Young Adult, and Short Story Fiction\u201d with Baker, Drayden, and Grovey, moderated by Billy Carr of KAZI 88.7 FM; \u201cVoter Suppression and Role of Press in Safeguarding Democracy\u201d with Anderson, Bledsoe, and Pitts, moderated by Austin author and journalist Alberta Phillips-Bledsoe; \u201cViolence Against Black Slaves\/Prisoners and Ethnic Mexicans in Texas: From South Texas to Sugar Land\u201d with Berry and Martinez, moderated by John Moran Gonzalez, Director, UT Austin Center for Mexican American Studies; and \u201cThe Depiction of Immigration in Fiction and the Media Bots, Trolls, and Truth\u201d with Pitts, Sen, and Sylvester, moderated by Douglas Criss, Digital Trending News Writer, CNN.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n