Renee Simms, author of Meet Behind Mars (moderator)

Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Brian G. Gilmore, author of elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem

Desiree Cooper, author of Know the Mother

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