Open Book, Open Mind; A'Lelia Bundles, "Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance"

Award-winning television producer and author A’Lelia Bundles will be talking with Princeton professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad about her new biography of A’Lelia Walker, her great grandmother, the hair care heiress and patroness of the Harlem Renaissance whom Langston Hughes called "the joy goddess of Harlem." Bundles will also show a PowerPoint presentation of historic images and rare archival family photos.

"In this scintillating account, biographer Bundles ("On Her Own Ground") revisits the pioneering glamour and cultural patronage of her own great-grandmother, the hair-care heiress and Harlem Renaissance socialite A’Lelia Walker...a luminary described by Langston Hughes as the 'joy goddess of Harlem.'"—Publishers Weekly

Doors open at 3:30 p.m. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book sales and signing with Watchung Booksellers.

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