Joy Goddess Launch in New York (The Schomburg Center)

A’Lelia launches the publication of her new book, Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, in a conversation with her dear friend Deborah Willis  They first met during the 1980s when A’Lelia was doing research about the Walker women and Deborah was on the staff of Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the storied institution now celebrating the centennial of its founding. It is fitting that this launch happens at the Schomburg, which is located at the corner of Madam C. J. Walker and A’Lelia Walker Place and Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard and that it is only steps away from the original site of A’Lelia Walker’s Harlem townhouse at 108-110 West 136th Street (now the home of the Countee Cullen Branch of the New York Public Library.)