joseph surette, desiree cooper, margo jefferson, abca 12, abca tylan. thai -- tai allen. >> good afternoon. my name is joseph surette from african-american studies. it is my privilege to moderate this panel. just to give you a quick sense of what to expect our call to this roundtable gathering of waters to call for healing and introduce panelists in the order in which they open the conversation, they offer brief remarks, brief opening remarks and follow-up you and a among the panel and open up looking to engage all of you who are here in conversation. a call for healing, the mandate from the national black writers conference literature and poetry often served as a bomb where we are faced with personal and societal challenges, through creative storytelling and prose writers expressed ways of overcoming ideas for harnessing emotional strength and meditated on the elements that pertain to the well-being of families and communities, individually and collectively. during this discussion panelists discuss how literary narratives, nurturing and reflecting refl

and then to hear from desiree cooper 2015 fellow and former attorney from the detroit community to publish a collection of short stories to appear in detroit's publication publications, and african-american fiction and a host of other complications also a board member in the and she is also a count be leo fellow and a national resident african-american fiction writer. then weon will hear from producer and designer domestic and international he has been covered bybo okay player and soul track as an artist he has performed or headlined at the american jazz museum crime and jazz and the charles wright museum most recently both project by the adult soundtrack dealing with trauma and the emergenceti from pain but each of them will respond. but think about black writing, the long history there is that assumption that the work of black riders can move on to a very specific political movemen movement. but you tweak this from art and politics or maybe so three examples with the history of black writings that navigate the attention. first of all and activist just but now she writes and delivers a sp