Over the course of his 40-year career, Nick Chiles has distinguished himself as one of the nation’s foremost chroniclers of Black life, culture, and celebrity—both as a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. He is the author or co-author of 24 books, including four New York Times bestsellers he wrote with iconic pastor, humanitarian, and producer Bishop T.D. Jakes (Disruptive Thinking: A Daring Strategy to Change How He Live, Lead, and Love; Faith Words-Hachette), R&B icon Bobby Brown (Every Little Step, […]

Hilary Beard is a nonfiction writer, author, and ghostwriter who helps Black leaders, visionaries, creatives and gamechangers amplify their voice to empower humanity. The author of 20 books published by all the Big Five publishers, Hilary has written two New York Times bestsellers and has won two NAACP Image Awards and numerous literary honors. Her collaborators have included actors Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance, tennis phenoms Venus and Serena Williams, NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, and entrepreneurs Lisa Price (Carol’s […]

Nina Foxx, whose history with the NBCC extends from the first conference in 2003 to leading our popular yoga class last year, is an award-winning novelist and playwright who will be featured next year. Her new book is Low Country Lies (A Queens of Kiawah Story, Book Two), which drops on March 16, 2027. (We will remind you.) In it, Denise Martine finally has the life she rebuilt after loss: a gallery inside the historic Planter’s Inn, a seat at […]