A Conversation Between Friends About Race and Joy
with Ben Philippe and Luis Correa

On Monday, April 5th at 7:00 PM, SIBA will be hosting a special event with Ben Philippe, the author of Sure I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump. Philippe will be in conversation with SIBA's own Luis Correa, the Operations Manager at Avid Bookshop in Athens, Georgia, and a member of the American Bookseller Association's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

The event will be the keynote for SIBA's forthcoming Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programming, the details of which will be announced in March.

 Philippe is a SIBA bookseller favorite and was a popular featured speaker at last September’s New Voices New Rooms virtual trade show. He will be speaking with Correa in a conversation about race, inspired by his new book, Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend, an at turns humorous and powerful take on topics universal and deeply personal.

Ben Philippe is a New York-based writer and screenwriter. Born in Haiti and raised in Montreal, Canada, he has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas. He has written two young adult novels: Field Guide to the North American Teenager, winner of the 2020 William C. Morris Award, and Charming as a Verb. Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend is his first book of adult nonfiction.

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