Fiction #1
- Crystelle Mourningby Eisa Nefertari Ulen #2 - The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth by Zane
#3 - Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey
#4 - Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel by Aaron McGruder, Reginald
Hudlin, Kyle Baker (Illustrator)
#5 - Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories by J. California
Cooper
Nonfiction #1
- The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley (Editor) #2 - We Speak Your Names: A Celebration by Pearl Cleage
#3 - The Black Man in the Old Testament and
Its World by Alfred G. Dunston, Jr.
#4 - Holla Back...but Listen First: A Life Guide for Young Black Men
by Mister Mann Frisby
#5 - Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the
Work of Richard Bruce Nugent edited by Thomas Wirth
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High Waters, a novel by Suzon Tropez, is a novel that
I am unsure as to what the storyline or the point of the novel is. I
think it is a novel about an older black businesswoman who faces
obstacle after obstacle in her career quest. What I do know is that
reading this novel was an exercise in dealing with frustration and
aggravation. I finished this book with a crying yell, “Editor! Editor!
My kingdom for an EDITOR!”
Nikki Charles is a mature black woman who loves her
career. She’s smart, intelligent, and does her job extremely well, but
along her climb to the top Nikki has made some enemies that she does not
know she made. Her enemies are out to destroy Nikki and they will do
whatever it takes to insure her downfall.
To say that I had my share of problems with High
Waters is putting it mildly. I hated the book. How much you ask? Here,
let me count the ways...
With X-Men 3, Halle
Berry is back on the big screen for the first time in two years, unless
you count her voiceover work last year as Cappy in the animated feature
Robots. The Oscar-winning actress, who turns 40 in August, had been out
of the public eye for awhile, recently returned to the gossip pages
after the paparazzi caught her canoodling with Canadian supermodel
Gabriel Aubry.
The whirlwind romance with the broad-shouldered, 6’2” blond boy-toy
reportedly began last December when the two fell in love while shooting
some Versace ads together. This relationship comes on the heels of the
bronze beauty’s brief fling with Michael Ealy, her cocoa-colored co-star
in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
In the wake of her freshly finalized divorce last year from crooner Eric
Benet, the two-time loser found herself fretting that maybe she just
wasn’t marriage material, given her unfortunate track record of being
victimized by infidelity and spousal abuse. Here, Halle opens up about
reprising her role as Storm, about her biological clock ticking, about
Oprah’s Legend’s Ball and she even updates us about her philandering
ex-husband, but the coy cutie buttons her lips when it comes to her new
beau.
A
collaboration, among the contributors who also share their poignant
personal memoirs in this touching tome are Reverend Bernice King about
her mother, Coretta; gospel great CeCe Winans about her mom, Delores;
and former Secretary of State Colin Powell about his mother, Maud. If
the good Bishop’s mission, here, was merely to let every mother know
that their sacrifices matter, make a difference, and will forever be
appreciated, well then, Mission Accomplished!
“The
Vanishing Black Male” was the #1 documentary on my annual Top Ten
List for 2005. That timely and thought-provoking picture seriously
examined how guns, drugs, incarceration, suicide, and a host of other
societal ills have collaborated to leave African-American men on the
brink of extinction.
I start with this sidebar because one of the standouts
of that groundbreaking film is Sgt. Delacy Davis, a recently-retired,
20-year veteran of the East Orange, NJ Police Department. Ever so
eloquently, he bemoaned the breakdown of the black family while
delineating the efforts of Black Cops Against Police Brutality (B-CAP),
to support single-moms and their kids in an effective manner.
Benn proves to be quite a gifted writer, whether recounting the comical
attempt of a female colleague to seduce him, or describing in vivid
detail the terrible toll that freebasing cocaine and stealing his big
sister’s bi-sexual boyfriend as a teenager took on his family. The
bottom line is that he hopes to serve as inspiration to other gays by
coming out of the closet and commanding respect because, as he puts it,
“Being gay is not a lifestyle choice- living gay is. Living a lie is
always an option, but why should I have to?” Indeed, why should he or
anybody else have to?
Everybody admires the bravery firemen exhibit by rushing into a burning
building when the human survival instinct calls for exactly the opposite
behavior. It is for similar reasons that you are likely to find Daryle
Lamont Jenkins so fascinating, since this 37 year-old black man born in
Newark devotes most of his free-time to monitoring the movements of the
Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.
Originally Published in the New Pittsburgh Courier
Washington—Roland Barksdale-Hall stood in an aisle of the African
American Pavilion at BookExpo America and smiled as he gazed at the
scene around him.
On one
side, award-winning publisher
Just Us Books displayed titles that celebrated the beauty of Black
children. On the other,
Amber Communications Group Inc., the king of African-American
self-help books, showcased a new book and other empowering releases. A
walk down the rows of Black publishers and industry professionals
revealed literary legends like
Third World Press and emerging giants like African American
Literature Book Club (aalbc.com).
It's time again for the Harlem Book Fair. The fair will be held on
Saturday, July 22, 2006 from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. on 135th Street between
Fifth Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Boulevard. Last year, CSPAN's
BookTV, The New York Times, the Daily News, Time Out New York, the New
York publishing community, and thousands of avid readers joined us in a
historic celebration of books and American culture.
The
Divoll Branch Library
Book Discussion Group
When: Friday, July 7,
2006 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Where: Divoll Branch of the St. Louis Public Library, 4234 N. Grand Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63107
Will discuss the work of author
Tananarive Due. Have You Read: The Between, The Black Rose,
Freedom in the Family, The Good House, Joplin's Ghost, The Living Blood,
My Soul to Keep? Come and discuss them with us!
For questions contact: Chris Hayden, Phone:
314-615-3633 (days), E-mail:
belsidus2000@yahoo.com
"Today, I think it is easier for a Black woman to ascend to the stature of
a "literary giant" than it is for a Black man. Because the
literature of Black men is apt to critique White folks. While the
literature of Black women is more apt to critique Black MEN." —Abm
This is the true story of America's first black dynasty.
Born a slave in 1841,
Blanche Kelso Bruce
became a local Mississippi sheriff, developed a growing Republican power
base, amassed a real-estate fortune, and became the first black to serve
a full Senate term. He married Josephine Willson, the daughter of a
wealthy black Philadelphia doctor. Together they broke racial barriers
as a socialite couple in 1880s Washington, D.C.
By befriending President Ulysses S. Grant,
abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and a cadre of liberal black and white
Republicans, Bruce spent six years in the U.S. Senate, then gained
appointments under four presidents (Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, and
McKinley), culminating with a top Treasury post, which placed his name
on all U.S. currency.
But in the end, the Bruce dynasty's wealth and stature
would disappear when the Senator's grandson landed in prison following a
sensational trial and his Radcliffe-educated granddaughter married a
black Hollywood actor who passed for white.
By drawing on Senate records, historic documents, and
the personal letters of Senator Bruce, Josephine, their colleagues,
friends, children, and grandchildren, author Lawrence Otis Graham weaves
a riveting social history that spans 120 years.
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Celebrating Our Literary Legacy! 
#1
- Crystelle Mourning by Eisa Nefertari Ulen
#1
- The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley (Editor) 
Two
Great Ways to Ensure Your Book is Seen at the Harlem Book Fair
Harlem
World Magazine's, Harlem Book Fair 2006 Commemorative Edition
High
Waters by Suzon Tropez
- Reviewed by Thumper
Halle
Berry
Mama
Made the Difference: Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me
- Reviewed by Kam Williams
Black
Cops Against Brutality: A Crisis Action Plan by DeLacy Davis -
Reviewed by Kam Williams
Don't
Shoot! I'm Coming Out: How to Man-Up & Set Heterosexuals Straight by Ben
Setfrey
- Reviewed by Kam Williams
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brings book publishers together
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The
Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black
Dynasty by
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