Essence Music Festival Book Emporium
Friday July 2, 2004 and Sunday July 4, 2004
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
900 Convention Center Boulevard, Hall B
New Orleans, LA
Friday signing: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m

Sunday signing: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

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Mariott New Orleans Book Signing

Saturday  2:30 to 4:30

New Orleans Mariott
555 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70130

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In June, Keith Weldon Medley was a presenter at Southern University in New Orleans' Congo Square Symposium speaking on the topic "Congo Square at the Dawn of Freedom".

http://www.wwoz.org/news/00591.html

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   In May, Keith Weldon Medley appeared on NBC Enterprises syndicated documentary series "The Remarkable Journey" in a presentation entitled "A Change Is Gonna Come: Brown vs. Board of Education."

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  On May 17, Mr. Medley was the keynote speaker at an event at Ashe Cultural Center that honored 3 of the 4 New Orleans women who were the first to integrate public elementary schools in the Deep South.  

  In May 2004, his article on the Tuskegee Airmen entitled "On Clipped Wings" appeared in the Points of Interest department of Smithsonian magazine.

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In February 2004, he delivered an address at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington entitled "Before Brown, There was Plessy".

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Also in February 2004, he participated in a panel discussion entitled "The Impact of Brown v. Board of Education" sponsored by the New Orleans Public Library.