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  Date / Time: 9/10/2009 7:42 PM UTC

  Meet Hill Harper
  

  Hill Harper is author of the New York Times bestsellers Letters to a Young Brother, which won two NAACP awards and was named Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association in 2007, and Letters to a Young Sister, which was released in June 2008.
  
  Currently starring in CSI: NY playing Dr. Hawkes, a role for which he won the 2008 Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a drama series, Hill has appeared in numerous prime-time television shows and feature films, including The Sopranos, ER, Lackawanna Blues, He Got Game, The Skulls, In Too Deep, The Nephew, and The Visit.
  
  Hill graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Brown University (and was valedictorian of his department) and cum laude with a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
  He also holds a master’s degree with honors from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a motivational speaker around the country.
  
  Named one of People’s Sexiest Men Alive, he lives in Los Angeles.
  
  
  
  
  

  ABOUT THE CONVERSATION

  Only 34 percent of African- American children today are raised in two-parent households, a sharp contrast to 1966, when 85 percent of black children were raised by two parents. In provocative but heartfelt words, Hill Harper takes on these urgent challenges, bringing a variety of issues out of the shadows. In The Conversation, Harper speaks to women and men with clear-eyed perspective, covering topics such as:
  
  • The roots of the breakdown in the black family
  • The myth that there are no mature, single, black male professionals
  • What women can do to alleviate the “heaviness” they sometimes attach to dating
  • What men can do to break the cycle of being a player
  • The difference between sex and intimacy
  • Bridging the communication gap
  • Self-worth and net worth, and why you should never settle for an unworthy partner
  
  Capturing the conversations Harper and his friends frequently have, this is destined to be one of the year’s most talked- about books—and one of Harper’s most healing contributions to black America.

  
  

  www.theconversationonline.com

  
  

  www.forrealsolutions.com
  

  
  
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