Fiction #1 - Still Sheisty, Part 2 by T. N. Baker #2 - The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth by Zane #3 - Sheisty by T. N. Baker #4 - Breaking the Cycle by Zane (Editor) #5 - Getting Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles 2, Vol. 2 by Zane

Nonfiction #1 - Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper #2 - We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker #3 - The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley (Editor) #4 - Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans #5 - The Covenant In Action by Tavis Smiley (Intro.), Cornel West (Afterword)

To view the entire bestsellers list visit http://books.aalbc.com/bestsellers.htm.  Also check out the best selling books for all of 2006

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Norbit - Film Review by Kam Williams
http://www.aalbc.com/reviews/norbit.htm

Playing more than one more person in a film is nothing new to Eddie Murphy. He handled two roles rather brilliantly in Bowfinger, and met with as much success cast as eight in Nutty Professor I and II. Because in the past he�s appeared to be quite comfortable cross-dressing and wearing a fat-suit for the camera, it is rather surprising that Norbit would turn out to be such an unmitigated disaster. 

Pros and Cons of Mainstream and Self-Publishing by C. Liegh McInnis
http://writers.aalbc.com/publishers.htm#Pros

There are two basic routes to getting published, mainstream and self-publishing.  Mainstream is when you submit your work to a publishing company to have them publish it.  Self-publishing is when you decide to publish your own books.  They both can be equally effective although the mainstream manner is the most respected because it has an aura or illusion of validation.  Where self-publishing does not offer the validation from the establishment, it offers a satisfaction of artistic and economic control of one�s work.

Common The Smokin� Aces Interview with Kam Williams
http://reviews.aalbc.com/common.htm

Born in Chicago on March 13, 1972, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr. is said to be one of seven children fathered by the former pro-basketball player of the same name. After dropping out of Florida A&M, he changed his name to Common Sense before making his debut as a hip-hop artist by releasing a CD entitled �Can I Borrow a Dollar?�

His next album, �Resurrection,� sparked a feud with West Coast gangsta� rapper Ice Cube, tensions which were only quelled after the two sat down with Minister Louis Farrakhan. He shortened his name to just Common after some losers in a garage band sued him, claiming to have the exclusive trademark for �Common Sense.�

Academy Award Recap - Martin Scorsese and The Departed Prevail on Anticlimactic Evening
http://reviews.aalbc.com/academy_award_recap_2006.htm

...The veteran Irish actor lost out to prohibitive-favorite Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) who was both gushy and gracious in delivering the most emotional acceptance speech of the evening. Collecting himself while fighting back tears, Forest reminisced about his childhood. �When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in,� he began. �It wasn't my reality to think I would be acting in movies. So, receiving this honor tonight tells me it is possible for a kid from East Texas, raised in South Central L.A. and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.�

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
Reviewed by Kam Williams
http://aalbc.com/reviews/medical_apartheid.htm

Ms. Washington, a Harvard and Tuskegee-trained scholar in ethics and journalism, conducted exhaustive research in order to be able to shed light on the country�s racism in the name of scientific research. Among the brutalities uncovered here by the author is proof that �black women have been systematically sterilized without their consent, and that �the brains of African-American children as young as six� have secretly been �surgically excised.�

The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America
by Joseph L. Graves, Jr.
Reviewed by Kam Williams
http://aalbc.com/reviews/the_race_myth.htm

Do you still think of people of different skin colors as being from different races? You probably won�t any longer after reading The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America. Written by evolutionary biologist Joseph L. Graves, Jr., this persuasive polemic succinctly states that there�s no scientific explanation for these so-called �racial� classifications, and that these distinctions have their basis not in biology but in bigotry.

A Comparison of Web Sites That Support, Promote, and Sell Black Books
http://aalbc.com/otherwebsites.htm

This frequently updated page includes information on web site traffic ranking, search engine saturation, longevity, link popularity and more. All of the web sites (with a traffic ranking) are in the top 5% of all web sites, of any type, and represent an excellent sample of the best of the Black book web sites.

Web site traffic ranking are estimated by Alexa Internet, Inc (an Amazon.com Company). Sites are sorted based upon their 3 month average traffic ranking on Feb 26, 2007.
 

AALBC.com RECOMMENDS

Harlem World Magazine
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Through the prism of culture, Harlem World  chronicles faces, music, fashion, arts, books, and lifestyle born in and out of Harlem. With an authoritative voice, Harlem World creates trends as much as it records them. Harlem World  covers lifestyle, educates its readers, and gives back to the community. Harlem World is a celebration of opera and hip hop, men and women, old and new culture from start to finish & everything in between around the block and around the world, Harlem World is a state of mind.

HW serves as a portal to a growing, youthful, trend-setting, multicultural audience, by being excellent journalists, exceptional designers and innovative marketers; we are a billboard for the world and the champions of Harlem Style.

Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Volume One
by Chuck D, Yusuf Jah
http://hiphopbookclub.com/yusuf_jah.htm

Due to our approach and the stances we�ve taken, I�ve been at the center of more ideological and political controversies than any other rap personality. I have been charged with being misogynistic, anti-Semitic, racist, seditionist, and anti-American. Despite all of that, we gotta do what we gotta do. With the current state of rap music and lyrics, there�s a huge gap between what the artists are serving, and what the audience wants, in fact, and more importantly, what the audience needs. I�ve come up with an acronym called R.H.Y.M.E., which stands for Rap Has Your Minds Empty. There�s only so much you can rap about what you drive, what you wear, or how much money you have, and as the Hip-Hop listener gets older but has little or no specialized skills in an increasingly competitive and technology based economy, little marketable education, to go along with children and increased responsibilities to take care of, they will seek and demand more. �Excerpted from Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary

INTERESTING DISCUSSION BOARD POSTS
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus

In the last week almost 1,000 messages were posted in 80 conversations.  Here are excepts from the most popular conversations.
http://www.thumperscorner.com/cgi/discus/search.cgi?method=last&number=7&units=1440&tree=ON&where=all

The Top 25 Events That Misshaped Black America
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/23557.html

"BET forgot to add themselves to the list too"

Happiness and Nappy Headed Black Women...?
http://www.thumperscorner.com/discus/messages/179/23537.html

"There is nothing intrinsically wrong with a weave or wig. I think the problem is that many black women believe that we can't grow their own natural hair long and this is simply untrue. It's much cheaper also!"

AUTHORS YOU SHOULD KNOW

Wendy Williams
http://authors.aalbc.com/wendy_williams.htm

Ms. Williamns is the host of The Wendy Williams Experience, which airs on New York radio station WBLS and is syndicated in a dozen other markets. She was named �Radio Personality of the Year� by Billboard and hosts the VH1 series Wendy Williams on Fire several times a year. She is the author of Drama Is Her Middle Name, The Wendy Williams Experience, and Wendy�s Got the Heat, which debuted at #9 on the New York Times Best Seller List. Read about Wendy's latest novel; Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?: The Ritz Harper Chronicles Book 2 (coauthored with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Karen Hunter)

Dr. Randal Pinkett
http://authors.aalbc.com/randal_pinkett.htm

Author of Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching a Multimillion Dollar Business, Pinkett describes; Every year, hundreds of thousands of students in the U.S. enter college totally clueless as to their choice of a major, and even less sure about what they will do with the rest of their lives. But for a growing number of students, the financial pressures of college are far more taxing than the academic rigors of campus life. As a result, many students rely heavily on financial aid, loans, part-time jobs, strict budgets, and whatever money their parents can afford to send them. Many students take dead-end jobs with no relevance to their college programs, while others even work on a full-time basis--sacrificing grades for dollars--and unwittingly setting themselves up to become college drop-outs.  However, students don't have to suffer through a penniless college existence... Read more about this book and author.

Kelvin E. Boston
http://authors.aalbc.com/kelvin_boston.htm

Kelvin Boston is a sought-after public speaker, distinguished financial journalist and best-selling author who believes that financial education is the key that unlocks the doors to financial success. Boston is the executive producer and host of the Moneywise with Kelvin Boston public television series. He is also the author of the best-selling book, Smart Money Moves For African Americans (Putnam). The New York Times referred to Boston as an �outspoken voice for economic empowerment.�  Reads Boston's Who's Afraid To Be a Millionaire: Mastering Financial and Emotional Success and learn the three key strategies needed to achieve lasting wealth.

Edrea Davis
http://authors.aalbc.com/edrea_davis.htm

Edrea Davis, has worked in all areas of communications management. She has coordinated publicity for a host of high-profile celebrities and dignitaries; her articles have been published in newspapers across the country; and she produces dogonvillage.com, one of the oldest community sites on the Internet.  Check out Davis' latest novel SnitchCraft which sheds light on snitch culture

Roy Glenn
http://authors.aalbc.com/roy_glenn.htm

Roy Glenn, the Master of Urban Suspense, returns with possibly his best novel to date Outlaw; a tale of money, power, love and betrayal. After settling some unfinished business, Mike Black finally returns to New York to retire and enjoy life. That is, until the police show up at his door, take him into custody, and charge him for murder. His good friend and lieutenant, Freeze, is sure he knows who�s really responsible for the murder, and during Mike�s absence, takes the family to war. But a war�s not what Mike needs. Mike needs for the real killer to be found. Now, it�s up to an unlikely ally, Detective Kirkland, to find out who framed Mike Black for murder.

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Blogging In Black
http://blogginginblack.com

Blogging in Black is a collective of literary professionals sharing their views on the writing life, publishing, and anything else on their minds.

"Our goal is to present a strong and consistent product for our readership. We all have different views and different stories, but we all want to highlight our positions. Blogging in Black provides an outlet for our expressions.

With each commentary, we hope to engage readers, to entertain them, to teach them, to inspire them. We have a group of regular columnists, who will present their views, interviews, reviews, profiles, and other information relevant to the literary landscape. We will also present guest commentary from a host of literary professionals."

AALBC.com Book Industry News Feed
http://aalbc.com/book_industry_news.php

I just set up a news feed to aggregate book related news and stories from various sources including NPR, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The New York Times and more. It is pretty cool, offering an interesting mix of stories.  The list of articles are updated frequently so visit often.

African American Lives
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/

For generations, we have been unable to learn about our African heritage or our family trees... what if we could trace our roots? � A journey into the past, hosted and narrated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; premiered in February 2006 on PBS. Check local listings. Read an AALBC.com review of the series on DVD.

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INDIGO SUMMER
by Monica McKayhan

Fifteen-year-old Indigo Summer�s world finally seems to be going in the right direction. But like most things in life, her good fortune takes a turn for the worse. When her world falls apart, Indigo learns a lot about herself and who her real friends are.

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More Than Poetry, 1993 until Infinity
by dawn l. brown
aka Soul Food Poems

No emotion is left untouched and no feeling was too strong for the author to bring to you. Enter this journey through Infinity and allow your mind, heart and soul to be free to feel.