Celebrating Books by African Americans

Kim Fields (“Living Single”) is among the celebrities stumping for children’s literature this weekend at the Los Angeles Book Fair, a festival of books by and about African Americans that benefits the Birthing Project, an organization dedicated to decreasing infant deaths.

The festival, sponsored by African Pride, offers thousands of books by African American authors and illustrators. (Authors and celebrities will read from the works.) Among the authors set to attend are Dolores Johnson (“What Kind of Babysitter Is This?”) and Robert Miller (“Reflections of a Black Cowboy”).

Other celebrities scheduled to attend include Tia and Tamera Mowry (“Sister, Sister”), Sherman Hemsley (“Amen” and “The Jeffersons”), Tisha Campbell (“Martin”), Dawnn Lewis (“A Different World”), Michelle Thomas (“Family Matters”), Angelique Bates and Eric George (“Living Single”), Donna Brown Guillaume (publisher of HBO’s “Fairy Tales for Every Child”) and more.

The fair takes place at two venues Saturday and one on Sunday. Saturday, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., fair-goers will converge on Magic Johnson Theatres, 4020 Marlton Ave., and Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza’s Bradley Court, 3650 Martin Luther King Blvd. On Sunday, the fair resumes at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. (800) 522-5543, Ext. 171.