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“Awesome Women” lend their voice to the arts this weekend

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July 25, 2013

WXRP radio will host, “I Am An Awesome Woman: The Pen and The Voice” this Saturday and feature seven authors from various genres who will tell their stories.

The event will take place at the Copper Blu Restaurant and Arts Complex, 117 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Atlanta from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.

The event is free.

Information: www.wxrpradio.com.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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