June 2016 Newsletter Celebrating the Best in Black Literature
Subscribe to AALBC.com’s eNewsletter Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) established the
Read MoreSubscribe to AALBC.com’s eNewsletter Carter G. Woodson Award Winning Books The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) established the
Read MoreSubscribe to AALBC.com’s eNewsletter Books to be Published in June Summer will heat up with some great new titles. Walter
Read MoreKarin Tanabe’s gripping new historical novel, The Gilded Years (Washington Square Press, June 7, 2016) is based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar College. With “spot on” dialogue and “narration reminiscent of novels of the 1890s” (Anna Jean Mayhew, author of The Dry Grass of August), Tanabe has crafted a tonally masterful yet supremely relevant narrative on race, women’s rights, and the challenges of finding one’s place in the world.
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