Welcome to the 2001 archives of AALBC.com’s Contest Page

Welcome to the 2001 archives of the AALBC's Contest Page. Test your knowledge to see how well you know your authors. Also check if the current contest has been answered

December 2001 Contest Question #23 (Posted December 16, 2001 3:13 EST )
Question: Name five (5) "Official" AALBC.com Book Reviewers Answer: Click Here	Winner: N. Crawford, Prichard Alabama (Tue 1/15/2002 1:09 PM) Prize: Into Africa: A Personal Journey Click to order via Amazon by Yvonne Blackwood Format: Paperback, 193pp. ISBN: 096822749X Publisher: Abbeyfield Publishers Pub. Date: February 2001
November 2001 Contest Question #22 (Posted Oct. 29, 2001 6:18 PM EST)
Question: Who is nicknamed was nicknamed the "Poet Laureate of Harlem"? Answer: Click here	Winner: C. Warner, Sterling Virgina (Tue 10/30/2001 6:38 AM) Prize: QBR: The Black Book Review July/August 2001 The Harlem Book Issue
October 2001 Contest Question #21 (Posted Oct 29, 2001 6:22 PM EST)
Question: Who is first African-American woman to be elected to the 250-member National Institute of Arts and Letters? Answer: Click Here	Winner: S. Edgerson, New Orleans, LA (Thu 11/8/2001 8:32 PM) Prize: Mosaic Literary Magazine Summer 2001
September 2001 Contest Question #20 (Posted Oct. 29, 2001 6:28PM EST)
Question: Who was the first published African? Answer: Click Here	Winner: C. Cliff Fri 12/7/2001 3:09 PM) Prize: QBR: The Black Book Review July/August 2000 The Harlem Book Issue
August 2001 Contest Question #19 (Posted Oct. 29, 2001 6:36PM EST)
Question: Which was the first Broadway play by a black writer? Answer: Click here	Winner: C. Williams, Conyers GA (Wed 10/31/2001 12:39 PM) Prize: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange
July 2001 Contest Question #18 (Posted June 17, 2001 10:54AM EST)
Question: Provide the URLs of ten (10) websites which focus on selling books by African-American Authors. Note: The web sites may not be a publisher's web site or an author's web site which only sell their own books Answer: Click Here	Winner: K. Pannell, District Heights, MD (Tue 6/19/01 10:40 AM) Prize: Forever Timmothy B. McCann Format: Hardcover, 355pp. ISBN: 1575667576 Publisher: Kensington Pub. Date: April 2001 McCann follows his highly successful debut novel, Until, with another compelling novel, this one about two couples and their interconnected lives. Over the course of a year, they learn from their past relationships and personal shortcomings as well as grow from their friendships and choices.
June 2001 Contest Question #17 (Posted June 17, 2001 11:04AM EST)
Question: Provide the URL's of five (5) websites that promote African-American authors. Note: The web sites may not be a publisher's web site promoting only their authors or an author's web site promoting themselves Answer:	Winner: A.B. Wright (Thu 8/16/01 7:44 AM) Prize: Forever Timmothy B. McCann Format: Hardcover, 355pp. ISBN: 1575667576 Publisher: Kensington Pub. Date: April 2001
May 2001 Contest Question #17 (Posted May 6, 2001 10:26 AM EST)
Question: Who defines Hip-Hop as follows: Hip-Hop, n., (a) The practice of white supremacy by white people + (b) the reaction of Black people to (a). Answer: Click Here	Winner: A. Roberson, Tucker, GA (Thu 5/17/01 8:30 AM) Prize: Team-Spirited Parenting: 8 Essential Principles for Parenting Success by Dr. Darlene Powell-Hopson and Dr. Derek S. Hopson Format: Hardcover, 256pp. Pub. Date: March 2001
April 2001 Contest Question #16 (Posted April 15, 2001 8:40 AM EST)
Question: Email us a quote of author Bernice L. McFadden's from the AALBC on-line chat session discussing her novel Sugar. Answer: Click Here	Winner: L. Stewart, New York, NY (Mon 4/16/01 11:05 AM) Prize: Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson Format: Paperback, 555pp. ISBN: 0375756671 Publisher: Random House, Incorporated Pub. Date: January 2001
March 2001 Contest Question #15 (Posted April 15, 2001 8:40 AM EST)
Question: AALBC.com will be selling books at a book signing in April. Name the author and title of the book. Answer: Click Here	Winner: J. Mitchell, Hyattsville, MD (Sun 4/15/01 11:17 PM) Prize: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace Of Mind by Iyanla Vanzant Format: Hardcover, 43pp. ISBN: 0684841371 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Pub. Date: December 2000 March Prize Courtesy of Simon & Schuster
February 2001 Contest Question #14 (Posted February 6, 2001 9:15 PM EST)
Question: Who said: 1 - "I am am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant" & 2 - "Art for art's sake is just another piece of deodorized dog-shit" Answers: Click Here	Winner: C. McKinney, Houston TX (Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:15PM) Prize: Good Peoples by Marcus Major Format: Mass Market Paperback, 384pp. ISBN: 0451409795 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: March 2001 Edition Desc: REISSUE
January 2001 Contest Question #13 (Posted January 1, 2001 8:22 PM EST)
Question: Who is this author? Answer: Click Here	Winner: C. Warner, VA (Mon 1/8/01 3:11 PM) Prize: A Lesson Before Dying (2 Cassettes) Ernest J. Gaines, Read by Jay Long / Audio / Random AudioBooks / September 1997

#13	January 2001 Contest Donna Clovis author of Locket of Dreams:An African American Fairy Tale in Modern Times Back to top
#14	February 2001 Contest 1 - Rev. Jesse Jackson & 2 - Author, Chinua Achebe Back to top
#15	March 2001 Contest The answer to this question was in the newsletter and on our Events Calendar The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: The Early Years, 1898-1939 (Click title to buy on-line via B&N.com) by Paul Robeson Jr. Format: Hardcover, 400pp. ISBN: 0471242659 Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated Pub. Date: April 2001 Buy a copy, autographed by Paul Robeson Jr., directly from AALBC.com! Click PayPal Logo Below This version of his father's life is an important, well-wrought addition to African-American, Cold War and theater scholarship. ~Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Back to top
#16	April 2001 Contest Archives of chat sessions, including McFadden's may be found here: http://cwmyb.com/Reading_List.htm Back to top
#17	May 2001 Contest Media Assassin, Harry Allen "Calling myself Media Assassin affirms that writing is best served as an act of transformative violence. When I was first published—in Brooklyn’s *The City Sun, then The Village Voice, where “Hip-Hop Hi-Tech” originally appeared (“It blew my mind,” Dr. Tricia Rose said, while researching her seminal Black Noise*)—one of my aims was to someday produce work so inflammatory that reading it in public might be deemed a seditious act." Back to top
#18	July 2001 Contest www.mosaicbooks.com An online "showcase for black literature," this Amazon.com affiliate features a list of top-selling titles on the site. www.justusbooks.com Creators of Black Interest Books and Products for Young People www.theblacklibrary.com "THE BLACK LIBRARY’S mission is one we found people can understand and relate to very easily. We will provide the community with a bookseller who understands their need for a personal service which extends far out side the normal/traditional retail setting (store)." www.allblackbooks.com "Black-Owned online bookstore and community focused on the particular reading tastes of African American and Diasporan consumers." www.blackbooksgalore.com "...founded in 1992 by three African American mothers, who, as the result of their challenges in finding quality books for their own children, dedicated themselves to identifying and distributing great African American children's books." www.blackliterature.com "...books by, for and about Black people" www.jokaes.com* at the time this answer was submitted there WAS a Black book store at this address. However, a check of the URL on June 24th no longer shows a web site. www.blackbookshelf.com* Comprehensive site with Black books, reviews, cinema, history, and more. www.cushcity.com "World's Largest African-American Selection Books, Videos, Art Prints, Toys, Software, Calendars & More" www.sisterspace.com "...the nation's only African American women owned and operated book store specializing in books by and about African American women." Back to top
#19	August 2001 Contest 1923---The Chipwoman's Fortune was the first Broadway play by a black writer (Willis Richardson) Back to top
#20	September 2001 Contest In the U.S., Briton Hammon was the first black prose writer of record with "A Narrative ... of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man" in 1760. The first poet was Lucy Terry with "Bars Flight" in 1746. Back to top
#21	October 2001 Contest Phillis Wheatley whose Poems on Various Subjects was published in 1773? Back to top
#22	November 2001 Contest Langston Hughes Back to top
#23	December 2001 Contest Nichel Anderson Walter Benefield Kysha N. Brown Tiffany Davis Kirby Freeman Lynne d. Johnson Jacqueline Jones LaMon Akilah Monifa Angeli R. Rasbury RAWSISTAZ Reviewers Kalamu ya Salaam Sister Shiree Sarana Thumper Paige Turner Back to top