Literacy Now! Summer Tour
(Chicago, IL) Patrick Oliver, publisher and editor of Turn the Page and You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters in Our Lives with Youth announces the Literacy Now! Summer Tour scheduled to begin Saturday,
July 1, 2006 at the Essence Music Festival. The Literacy Now! tour will feature Turn the Page and You Don’t Stop contributors participating in readings, signings and panel discussions at venues locally and throughout the country. The tour is designed to promote reading as a tool of empowerment. The literacy tour is one of the many literary events sponsored by the Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series. [Download full release]
 

Turn the Page

Why Read? The impact and development of Black readership and book purchases over the past five years represents six figure book contracts, multi-year deals, national tours and media attention equivalent to big
screen movie stars and music recording artists. This results in Black books generating millions of dollars through retail, wholesale and distribution outlets. Recently, Third World Press became the first Black publisher
to have a book make #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers list. [Download full release]