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APRIL EVENTS Happy Spring Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd (Between 124th and 125th Streets) New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212-665-7400 Fax: 212-665-1071   Store Hours: Mondays - Saturdays  10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Sundays  11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

IT'S SPRING TIME

AND WE ARE CHIRPING

Dear e-drum, Winter has been long and the economy sucks but you can't stop the Seasons from changing.  It Spring Time...and everything must change. So we we are dusting off the weary smile and welcoming you with a big smile to Hue-Man...a constant in your life for the past 10 years...Yes...this year August we turn 10...

APRIL SIGNINGS FRIDAY, APRIL 1 6PM 86400 LAVAILLE LAVETTE Lavaille Lavette is an educator, author and a woman on purpose...86,400 seconds is all the time we have in a day...but if we are living on purpose, in the now, and honor time those precious seconds--indeed one Day is all we need to maximize the life we have. She tells us how...   SATURDAY APRIL 2pm matinee DIE FREE CHERYL WILLS @ Page to Stage in Conversation with the cast of The Whipping man Our Page to Stage Program began with Terry McMillan at Fela...We loved it and loved its potential for our authors and the interconnectedness of the works that pertain to our stories on Broadway...so we are back with another amazing show and author.  The Whipping Man staring Andre Braugher is about a confederate Soldier and two slaves...Die Free by Cheryl Wills is about her great-great Grandfather Sandy Wills  who was a soldier in the Civil War.... TUESDAY, APRIL 5 6PM STRAWBERRY LETTERS SHIRLEY STRAWBERRY Shirley Strawberry is the co-host of the nationally syndicated "Steve Harvey Show". Strawberry is know for delivering no-nonsense woman-to-woman straight talk to her listeners who have come to depend on fierce honesty.  Shirley brings her a game message to Hue-Man...are you ready for the straight talk?  FRIDAY, APRIL 8 6PM HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY TYRESE GIBSON This multi-platinum singer, song writer and actor Tyrese knows how to get out of his own way and how to kept it moving upwards...also a former Fashion model, rapper and MTV VJ Tyrese know about what it takes to navigate the world of success.  Believing in his dream and going for it at a mere sixteen years old he was not deterred by the fact that he was born in Watts with what to many might have seemed like insurmountable odds.... his answer re-program your thinking to achieve the life you have always imagined. SATURDAY, APRIL 9 4PM BUTTERFLY RISING TONYA WRIGHT This beautiful smile and beautiful face is accompanied by an equally beautiful spirit.  You might recognize Tanya from the role she played as Theo's girlfriend on the Cosby Show or now on HBO's True Blood where she appears in the role Kenya on the super popular series  A graduate of Vassar this Diva is a playwright, author and has just directed her own movie based on the book Butterfly Rising....   SUNDAY APRIL 10 4PM FIRST VOICES DADDY I AM THE MAN YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KEVIN HOLMES What they see is what they'll be is the Motto of the 100 Black Men. Kelvin Holmes was determined to break prove that motto wrong.  As a child he learned firsthand from a father who was---a man without a plan---what not to become.  With conscious choices Kevin chose to look at the glass as half full instead of half empty......   WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 6PM LIVING IN THE VILLAGE RYAN MACK Ryan Mack is a financial commentator on CNN and is dear to our hearts her in Harlem because he "speakie" our language.  He understands the money game and the conversation we are spearheading all over our community...individuals who have control of their finances and understand the power of money will benefit their communities in enormous ways.   This is the 21st Century conversation for African Americans and other ethnic communities with trillions of spending dollars that they control...what will you be? Consumer or financial Juggernaut who can then be a community empower-er?  THURSDAY, APRIL 14 6PM RUDE BOUY JOHN ANDREWS DEA meets Traffic....A diabolical and hard hitting story of the underbelly of a world saturated with corruption, deception, duplicity and inequities of all kinds...this spellbinding novel will keep you on the edge of your seat...Can DEA Rude Buay save his paradise Island from the Dragon Cartel? SATURDAY, APRIL 16 8AM to 4PM off-site at Aaron Davis Hall SISTER TO SISTER: One In the Spirit Celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a wonderful day of empowerment and inspiration and great Women of Power and Influence. Judge Karen Mills, Cheryl Wills, Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda McLean and Marsha Haygood will be guest speakers at this powerful all day long conference.  These great authors will also be signing books at the Hue-Man Bookstore on site at the Aaron Davis Hall.....there will also be a health expo and many vendors.  Vendor opportunities are available by calling...212-281-9240...Thanks Yvonne Davis for this gift. SATURDAY, APRIL 16 4PM LOVE AND OBSESSION A WOMAN"S TOUCH BILLIE GREENE Dr. Williams had it all.  A successful pediatric practice...a husband who she thought the world of until she finds out he has a life of his very own. Turning to her friend whose sympathetic ear turns into something else..A Woman's Touch...Williams abandons everyone to be with her new found lover only to find out that her lover has a Pandora's box of her own. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20 6PM CAMO GIRL KEKLA MAGOON Kekla writes the stories young adults want to read. Set in Las Vegas, the story of Z the odd kid out is one one of loyalty and friendship.  Z is great but unpopular. Ella is practically Z's only friend who doesn't seem to mind that she is black.  When Billie, another black kid comes to school he becomes popular and he can make Ella popular too but only if she promises to ditch Z.... THURSDAY, APRIL 21 6PM BLACK ORCHID BLUES PERSIA WALKER Oh what a peek into the a fantasy 1920's Harlem.  Walker's Harlem Renaissance novel (her third..Harlem Redux) bring us up close and personal with performing sensation Queenie Lovetree, a six foot three drag queen...who is taken at gun point from the club right informant of Harlem Chronicle society columnist Lanie Price...Ohhh drama, and more drama, then intrigue and more intrigue...yes..this is a good, good page turner... SATURDAY, APRIL 23 4PM License to Live: THE UNDERDOG OVERCOMES ELVIN DOWLING Was the former Chief of Staff of the national Urban League...gives you a "License to Live....Elvin Dowling came from the Florida Ghetto, wound his way though savvy moves to Capitol Hill and ended up on Wall Street.  He saw world and those who ruled it up close and personal.  Most recently the former Chief of Staff of the Urban League Edwin Dowling words and pearls of wisdom are worth hearing.... TUESDAY, APRIL 26 6PM JUSTIFY MY THUG WAHIDA CLARK Revisit the sage of the Clark's favorite couple...in their Hip-Hop tug of war life on the streets. THURSDAY, APRIL 28 6PM READING HAIR STORY HUE-MAN BOOK CLUB   FRIDAY, APRIL 29 6PM REGINE ROUSSEAU SEARCHING FOR CLOVES AND LILIES A powerful book of poems that began with a question.  Regine asked women what was their favorite body parts...she was met with stories, silence, incredulous stairs and in many cases open answers from both friends and strangers...a theater major this event is sure to be fun.... SATURDAY, APRIL 30 2PM TUTU GOES GREEN TULANI THOMAS Children's book that shows children how they can practice green habits everyday and help our planet earth...