The Los Angeles Black Book Expo (LABBX) is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 2004 to advance African world community literary and spoken word activity governed by an executive circle and administered by an executive director.

In June 2004, the first Los Angeles Black Book Expo was held at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center (now Expo Center) in Los Angeles, California, and has thus become an essential public forum to share information and resources concerning the independent African and African American press and electronic medium in the U.S. and around the world. The LABBX will keep this focus via the sponsoring or co-sponsoring of related events throughout the year, and remaining a free community-based enterprise that provides opportunity to a diverse population. Amen-Ra Community Assembly of California, Inc. (Amen-Ra Theological Seminary) is the 501(c) (3) fiscal sponsor of the Los Angeles Black Book Expo.

The LABBX has the following: authors and exhbitors, panel discussions, children's area and spoken word. For 2009, we will expand our program to include workshops, a teen poetry contest and a spelling bee. Through its partership with Barnes and Noble at the Grove, there will be a series of bookfairs hosted by LABBX.

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The Los Angeles Black Book Expo (LABBX) is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 2004 to advance African world community literary and spoken word activity governed by an executive circle and administered by an executive director.

In June 2004, the first Los Angeles Black Book Expo was held at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center (now Expo Center) in Los Angeles, California, and has thus become an essential public forum to share information and resources... (read more)