Roundtable Discussions Luncheon
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Help Shape the TAA Foundation’s Future
Moderator:
Molefi Kete Asante, President, Text and Academic Authors Foundation (TAAF)
Join me for a discussion of the Text and Academic Authors Foundation’s current projects and its plans for the future. The TAA Foundation was formed in 2003 to raise funds to support projects that benefit text and academic authors. Given the various challenges to the traditional model of publishing and the growing need for authors to maintain their position as creators in the midst of new technologies the TAAF can assist authors in shaping their and the Foundations future for the benefit of authors.
About the Moderator:
Molefi Kete Asante is President of the Text and Academic Author’s Association Foundation. He is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Considered by his peers to be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars, Asante has authored 70 books, among the most recent Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait, An Afrocentric Manifesto, Encyclopedia of African Religion, co-edited with Ama Mazama, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony, Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait, Handbook of Black Studies, co-edited with Maulana Karenga, Encyclopedia of Black Studies, co-edited with Ama Mazama, Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul, Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, Ancient Egyptian Philosophers, Scattered to the Wind, Custom and Culture of Egypt, and 100 Greatest African Americans. The second edition of his high school textbook, African American History: Journey of Liberation, 2nd Edition, is used in more than 400 schools throughout North America. The comprehensive Encyclopedia of African Religion, co-edited with Ama Mazama, was published by Sage Publications in December 2008. He was named a TAA Council of Fellow in 2010.
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