Authors of A Love Story & What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know: The Real Deal on Love and Relationships

RELATIONSHIP FORUM - Celebrate Black Love

Nick Chiles and Denene Millner, husband and wife and co-authors of A Love Story, What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know: The Real Deal on Love and Relationships and its follow-up, What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex, have amazing insights to share with young African-Americans who are trying to find their way to successful loving relationships.

Provocative, engaging and wickedly funny, Denene Millner, Parenting magazine columnnist, former senior editor at Honey and entertainment and political writer for the New York Daily News, is co-author of several books, including the novel A Love Story (with her husband, Nick Chiles) and The Angry Black Woman's Guide to Life, a humor book. Millner is uniquely positioned to give voice to the fears and dreams of young African-Americans. Too young to have personally felt the struggles and pain of the Civil Rights Movement, but old enough to know that America has turned its back on the promises for which that movement toiled, she has written extensively about the under-30 generation and its unique style of living, loving, striving and surviving

When it comes to the subject of relationships, rarely has the public seen the kind of wit and honesty from male authors and commentators that Nick Chiles demonstrates in the books he’s written with his wife. No longer content to sit by and let others define and belittle the way black men live and love, Chiles has burst onto the scene as a fresh and engaging voice for those who are trying to negotiate the difficult terrain of relationships. He is an award-winning journalist who has written for Essence, the Dallas Morning News, The New York Times, Newark Star Ledger, and New York Newsday. Chiles has won over a dozen major journalism awards, including a 1992 Pulitzer Prize® as a part of the Newsday staff which won the coveted award for their coverage of a fatal subway crash. He is currently helping launch Odyssey Coleur, a magazine for multi-cultural travelers.

In a probing and insightful interactive relationship forum, Millner and Chiles challenge each others’ views and open their discussion to the audience for a fast-paced, sassy dialogue that both pokes fun at and illuminates the differences between male and female perspectives. This funny and frank “relationship survival guide event” takes an honest look at the full spectrum of African American relationships, from dating to mating.