Harlem World Magazine will publish the official program
guide for the Harlem Book Fair (to be held in Harlem, NY on Saturday,
July 22nd 2006). The Harlem Book Fair 2006 commemorative issue is
a first of it's kind, and is sure to become a collectors item. Take
advantage of this unique opportunity to showcase your book during one of
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Nikki Turner, an Essence best-selling
author, and the reigning princess of hip-hop fiction. Turner was
working full time, while raising two children as a single parent, when
she published A Hustler's Wife. Turner's A Hustler's Wife
was a top 10 best selling book on AALBC.com in 2004 and 2005.
Bishop T.D. Jakes is the author of the
bestsellers, God's Leading Lady; The Lady, Her Lover, and Her
Lord; and Maximize the Moment, which was a New York Times
business bestseller. He is also the author of the phenomenally
successful Woman, Thou Art Loosed! which is the basis for a
novel, a bestselling video and CD, a critically acclaimed stage
production and an award-winning major motion picture.
Marsh is
the author of the novel The Aura of Love. Lauretta Ali of
Armchairinterviews.comdescribes: "A gifted writer, Marsh, has
told a story that will leave her readers wanting more. Will these
coven-crossed lovers survive? Enter the world of The Aura of Love
and find out. You won't be disappointed."
Douglas E. McIntosh is
a writer, born in 1960, in New York City. He holds an MBA in Finance,
and a BA in History. He has worked as a Banker, Financial Analyst, and
Financial Consultant. In the late 1990s, Douglas began to
write, simply for enjoyment, and relaxation. Yet it gave him even
greater joy to find that others, as well, enjoyed reading his literary
creations and it is that, along with his love of weaving, and telling
interesting and poignant stories, that has continued to motivate him.
Enjoy a sample of Mcintosh's writing by reading his short story; To
Journey Home (http://authors.aalbc.com/to_journey_home.htm)
Franklin lived through America's most defining
twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected
racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that
transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5 million-copy
bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like
every other African American, could not but participate: he was evicted
from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools,
threatened-once with lynching-and consistently met with racism's
denigration of his humanity. And yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from
Harvard, become the first black historian to assume a full-professorship
at a white institution, and garner over 130 honorary degrees.
Now in its third year, the African
American Pavilion at BEA is the largest national marketplace for
thousands of African American publishing industry professionals.
According to
Wade Hudson, President of Just Us Books, "The African American
Pavilion is a growing presence at BEA". "There will be great
opportunities to learn, share, educate, sell and network; and it's
making black book history a vital, visible part of the 105-year history
of BookExpo America/American Booksellers Association."
Naturally, as a Black reader, I was drawn to a couple of
middle chapters of the book where Avakian delivers his take on the Black
Panther Party. This is not done, however, until after he recalls Malcolm
X and how this great leader influenced his political and revolutionary
development. “I loved to listen to Malcolm X speeches,” Avakian writes.
“At one point, I got a recording of ‘The Ballot or the Bullet,’ and I
listened to that over and over. Later, when I started making speeches
myself, I drew a lot from Malcolm X, especially the way in which he
exposed profound injustices and contradictions of the system so
sharply.”
Packed with so many twists and turns, this
book takes on the feel of a high-speed chase down the freeway at 120
mph. The plot has it all murder, multiple personalities, sensuality, a
family fortune and medical science and it’s coming at you so fast that
there’s barely enough time to digest all of the facts.
Yeah, it’s unusual for me to read a book with a title
like, Every Woman’s Man, a novel by Rique Johnson. I don’t normally go
for the sister girl relationship books. Actually, I can’t stand them.
But, I found myself in an unlikely, highly unusual position of needing
something to read. Unfortunately for me, Every Woman’s Man caught my
eye. The novel didn’t appear that it would take me long to read it, so I
started it. The novel which centers on one man’s fear of committing to a
relationship and the women, who love him, began as a quick, interesting
read. The quick and interesting read soon dissolved into a long
agonizing bore.
Brinkley, a professor of history at Tulane University in
New Orleans, recounts the blow-by-blow... in this 700+ page tome reveals
that there were many villains responsible for the mind-boggling
mismanagement and utter neglect, but this shocking text indicts Nagin,
Brown and Bush as among the most culpable. First, Nagin committed
the unpardonable sin of implementing an evacuation plan which only
addressed the needs of the rich and big business, ignoring folks without
the wherewithal to save themselves. Then, as the crisis worsened, the
Mayor simply hid, coming apart at the seams, doing absolutely nothing.
Beatty was quoted in an newspaper interview, saying
not many contemporary people are funny anymore, but he found enough of
them to bring a smile to any reader’s face. A good cast is worth
repeating (at least a part of it): Wanda Coleman, Franklin Ajaye, Rev.
Al Sharpton, Percival Everett, Bob Kaufman, Henry Dumas, Amiri Baraka,
Mike Tyson, Patricia Smith, Bert Williams, Toni Cade Bambara,
Ish Reed, Spike Lee, Elizabeth Alexander, Ralph Ellison, Fran Ross,
Suzan Lori-Parks, and Steve Cannon, among others. I found myself
chuckling and drawing stares from the annoyed and polite. Tough.
Sometimes an author gets a good idea but it takes time,
endurance, and determination to complete it. Blackburn, an acclaimed
journalist and novelist, took the raw material of a project by
biographer Linda Kuehl, a helter-skelter collection of 150 interviews of
people who knew jazz icon Billie Holiday from her early days in
Baltimore as hardscrabble Eleanor Fagan to the emotionally scarred yet
immensely gifted singer Lady Day in New York City. Tenor saxophonist
Lester Young gave her that nickname. In the early 1970s, Kuehl assembled
this research painstakingly from neighbors, friends, lovers, musicians,
producers, critics, and even a black narcotics agent who had a crush on
the brown-skinned woman with the white gardenia in her hair but put her
behind bars.
Jazmin Biltmore (Mo’Nique) is at war with the world.
This plus-sized sister’s problems start with the fact that she works at
a posh, L.A. clothing boutique frequented by thin women, and as Jazmin
puts it, “I hate skinny bitches!” and it doesn’t help that she “ain’t
been laid in nine months” of her customers are accompanied by black men.
“If I see another brother with a white girl, I swear
I’m gonna shoot somebody,” she informs her equally-plump, best friend,
Stacey (Kendra Johnson), just before another such couple shows up and an
ugly scenes ensues.
...already sitting in the #1 spot on the New York Times best selling
list.
However, this text is not intended to be taken at face value, for its
content is more of a humorous than serious nature. For these frequently
politically-incorrect words of wisdom come courtesy not of Perry but
through the mouth of his famous fictional character. And Madea is not
one to think before she speaks.
We learn that Madea has some skeletons in her closet and that she was a
single-mom and worked as a stripper to support her daughter. She also
shares that she was opposed to Rosa Parks call for a bus boycott to end
segregated seating because, “I was too big to be walking all that
around.”
Young men today have been bombarded with images of wealth and success
that tell them that buying the hottest car or the most bling-blingin’
jewelry is what they should be motivated by. There is an overwhelming
sales pitch targeted at these young men that subliminally suggests that
material goods are what makes them real men. I want young men to have
knowledge of the things that bring them true empowerment: education, a
strong sense of purpose, compassion, confidence, and humility, to name a
few. —Excerpted from the Introduction
“Play close attention, ladies: there are many great black men out
there. Do not buy into the lies that all the good men are already
married or gay. These are lies sold to our community so that we don’t
forge strong family or personal relationships, which have statistically
proven to contribute to long, secure, and prosperous lives. Further, it
is my belief that sisters clothe themselves with these lies so that we
can justify our inability to select quality men or end bad
relationships.” —Excerpted
from Chapter 1
Initially, called
everything from zebra to mulatto to Oreo red-boned to stuck-up yellow
b*tch, Angela describes how she over-compensated by trying to become a
super black sister. Then, everything changed in high school with the
advent of gangsta rap on MTV and BET, since, as she describes it, “The
majority of the women in the videos had my complexion… I became even
more secure in my light skin when I discovered the mania was deeper than
life imitating hip-hop.”
How does it feel to
have appeared in all three installments of Mission Impossible?
"The beauty of this one, for me, in coming back, is the script, J.J.
Abrams and the other writers, the new cast members and the energy and
authenticity that they bring to the piece, and the fact that we all had
an extremely good chemistry with one another. So, it was a chance to
have some fun and make a good deal of money."
Narrated by Harvard Professor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this four-part PBS series follows the
extraordinary efforts of nine notables to find their roots, including
Oprah Winfrey, televangelist Bishop
T.D. Jakes, comedian Chris Tucker, neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson,
Quincy Jones, astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and
Whoopi Goldberg.
Courtesy of DNA evidence, Gates is certainly surprised
to learn that more of his ancestors came from Ireland and France than
from Africa. By contrast, Bishop Jakes’ is enabled to pinpoint his
forefathers’ point of departure from Africa. Upon his travel return, he
is greeted by a long-lost relative with, “Welcome home!”
Glenn Thompson was an exemplary Black publisher. He viewed books
as weapons of liberation and saw his task as that of a soldier, arming
the people to free themselves. He chose to publish great books
about people of African descent that helped to define the reality of the
Black experience. He also chose to publish outstanding books that
redefined the White experience from the perspectives of those who were
oppressed and dispossessed by it--and he did so in subtle, subversive,
but often comical ways.
Rose,
meanwhile, who looks better black than white by the way, ventures into
South Central, where she takes a course in poetry slam. Though she’s the
only one of the six whose make-up leaves her looking human, she is
apparently the most conflicted about behaving differently in order to
trick strangers. So, she talks and walks and speaks exactly the way she
did before she became a sister.
National Book Club Conference is the world's largest book club meeting,
and all the charm, learning, fun and fellowship that come with
conventional meetings are the hallmarks of the '06 occasion. What
distinguishes the NBCC from any other literary event is the access to
authors.
At the '05 NBCC, Terry McMillan not only received the
Walter Mosley Author of Distinction Award, but she attended the "book
club meetings" of Trisha R. Thomas and Bebe Moore Campbell, among
others. She also was a panelist on the Past, Present and Future of Black
Literature discussion.
AuthorStreet.com named as media sponsor for 2nd Annual Queens Book
Fair. The 2nd Annual Queens Book Fair is scheduled to be held at 11-acre
historic park in Jamaica, Queens which houses the King Manor. The 18th-
and 19th-century house located on the premises of Rufus King Park takes
its name from Rufus King, a signer of the United States Constitution.
The Rufus King Park is located 153rd Street & Jamaica Ave., Queens, New
York. The 2006 Queens Book Fair will be held on August 19, 2006 and will
begin at 11:00 am and end at 7:00 pm.
Last year the Queens Book Fair was held on April 30,
2005 and was featured in Newsday, May 3, 2005, article "This book fair’s
for the self-published" New York City Edition Neighborhoods section pg.
A52. Self-published authors from around the country flocked the
2005 Queens Book Fair, along with book lovers around the tri-state area.
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall proclaimed the month of April as
Book Month in Queens
I think there's a much stronger demand for more
"Eurocentric" looking black women in Hollywood. Meaning, the
lighter-skinned, weaved-up, fried and died, sistas get more play.
I think Hollywood and any Eurocentric society period cannot appreciate a
beautiful, dark-skinned black woman. As bruthas, we should be the
opposition to this society that tries it's damnest to damage they psyche
of our darker-skinned sistas... ..and sistas... please STOP with
the GADDAMN WEAVES!!!
Paris Hilton has a very punchable face. She is one of
the many overrated beauties that poisons my television everytime that
hook-nosed winch appears. That ugly square man-jaw is makes me want to
stab it with a pointy stiletto boot. Brad and Angelina:
You'd think she was going to give birth to God instead of a regular
human newborn baby. The media kills me with how these two white people
are going to bring such a "gorgeous" baby into this world. Like, huh?
they never realized that good looking ppl give birth to mediocre-to-ugly
looking kids all the time?
While recently riding a CTA bus in Downtown Chicago (which I enjoy about
as much as I do sipping a glass full of the Ebola virus), I witnessed a
grown a$$ Black man walking around with the backside of his pants
dayamnear touching the ground. The only reason why you could not see his
(probably crusty) a$$ was he was wearing a jacket that was long enuff to
cover it. But that wasn’t the best part. This FOOL had a baby’s
PACIFIER in his mouth! And it was like he was PROUD of other folks
seeing him chew that sucker.
Now,
I can understand that the thug books are selling and is the major draw
for booksellers. As I said before, the sista-girlfriend books held this
position a mere few years ago. But, just because a certain type of book
is selling don't make the damn thing literature... —Thumper
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I can understand that the thug books are selling and is the major draw
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