You've Got A Place Here Too!!! Author Event

Calling the Detroit HBCU Network, along with our community of Readers that love that love Black love stories and great writing. We plan to have a fun celebrating this book in Detroit!!

Save Your Seat!!

Make sure to get a ticket at this link. The ticket includes a copy You've Got a Place Here, Too" An Anthology of Black Love Stories at HBCUs plus tax and venue fee. The event will inlcude a rich conversation between Editor Ebony LaDelle and contributor Aaron Foley, a Q & A session and a book signing line.

About the Book

A heartwarming and unforgettable collection of love stories set at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, exploring hope, endurance, and what it means to leave a legacy, from some of today’s most prominent Black writers and edited by the acclaimed author of Love RadioLove can be messy, painful, and heartbreaking, but it can also be revolutionary, profound, and hopeful. For Celine, a forbidden crush on a professor evolves into a second chance at romance years later. Myra’s focus on a coveted audition for the Fisk Jubilee Singers is challenged by the handsome music major determined to help her. Kiese investigates the darker side to academia, love, and identity. Like most blessings, love emerges in the most unexpected places—in a training cockpit for new pilots, during a Mardi Gras celebration, or while gathering signatures to start the first-ever LGBTQ+ student organization officially recognized at an HBCU.

These are just a few of the heart-searing, tender, and transporting love stories collected in You’ve Got a Place Here, Too—a true celebration of Black love and the profound impact of HBCUs on the community.

Featuring stories by Elizabeth Acevedo, Jasmine Bell, Carla Bruce, Aaron Foley, Kai Harris, Ebony LaDelle, Kiese Laymon, Christine Platt, Farrah Rochon, Kennedy Ryan, Dawnie Walton, and Nicola Yoon.

About the Editor:

Ebony LaDelle (she/her) is a Howard Univerity Alum and the author of Love Radio, which was a People magazine best book of the Summer, a 2023 Audie Award Finalist , a 2023 Michigan Noteable Book , An Apple Books best book and was featured on the Today show Her newest novel, This Could Be FOREVER was released May 2025. A Baldwin Fellow. Prior to being an author, Ebony was a brand marketing director in book publishing and worked at Penguin Random House, Harper Collins and Others. vist her online at EbonyLaDelle.com

In conversation with

Contributors: Aaron Foley's reporting and writing on Detroit, blackness, and queerness has appeared in This American Life, Jalopnik, the Atlantic, CNN, several anthologies, and the PBS NewsHour, where he is currently a senior digital editor. A Detroit native, the city's first appointed chief storyteller, and a former magazine editor, he is the author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass and editor of The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook. He currently lives in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

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Christine Platt is an advocate for embracing the power of less to simplify, surrender, and boldly step into the next season of life. Author of The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less, she holds a BA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida, an MA in African and African American Studies from The Ohio State University, and a JD from Stetson University College of Law. Now an empty nester, Christine lives her best intentional life with less in Washington, DC, and Marrakech, Morocco.

Praise for the book👇🏽

“Smart, witty, full of passion and love, You’ve Got a Place Here, Too is just the type of anthology I would have loved to have when I was trying to find myself. This should absolutely be on your radar.”—Kosoko Jackson, USA Today bestselling author of I’m So Not Over You“Sweet, sexy, and heartfelt, this collection embodies the richness of Black love and legacy. Crafted by a powerhouse lineup of authors at the top of their game, these stories center Black romance and the legacy of HBCUs with joy, complexity, and care. You’ve Got a Place Here, Too is a radiant celebration of the spaces that shaped us.”—Regina Black, author of The Art of Scandal