Charlotte African American Book Festival

Back for it's 3rd year the Charlotte African American Book Festival celebrates African Americans contributions to literature books literacy and the literary culture. It will be held Saturday June 21 2025 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the historic Second Ward Gymnasium/Brooklyn Village located at 710 E. MLK Jr. Blvd. in downtown Charlotte North Carolina.

The African American Book Festival was built to give the cemented and newly emerging authors bookstores and publishers of our culture a platform to spread the messages that are embedded in the pages of their iconography. With one goal in mind we want to educate entertain and impact the Charlotte community through African American literature by shining light on the stories told in their books.

This event is a great opportunity for community members to meet and engage with their favorite black authors. There will be several featured authors.

Come out to support your authors meet them face to face get pictures buy books at discounted prices network with other professionals and bring back reading books into normalcy and support authors in spreading their messages.

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