Walking in My Joy: In These Streets: “The Mother of Black Hollywood,” Jenifer Lewis is back with a new collection of electric and hilarious essays in Walking in My Joy. Sharing commentary on what’s happening in the world today and told through her outrageous real-life adventures, these stories will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul. Available now! | From the author of the critically acclaimed novel When Life Gives You Mangos comes a captivating journey of love, loss, and letters. Mangos was named to Oprah Magazine’s “Best Caribbean Books for Your 2021” reading list and the most talked about middle-grade debut of the year! Getten sophomore middle-grade novel beautifully captures the edge of adolescence, when everything is thrilling, amazing, and terrifying in a way it will never be again. More ? | The first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds. “Bright,” a slang term used to describe light-skinned people of interracial American ancestry, becomes the starting point for an extended meditation on the author’s upbringing in a mixed Black and Italian American family. Alternating moments of memoir, archival research, close reading, and reverie, this work contemplates the enduring, deeply personal legacies of enslavement and racial discrimination in America. Situated at the luminous crossroads where public and private histories collide, Brightasks important questions about love, heritage, identity, and creativity. More ? | In this sizzling, high-octane new series, national bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson brings back the unforgettable Kira from her gritty bestselling Wifey novels. Now, from drug kingpin’s wife to streetwise widow and back again, along with all the danger and sexy action in between, Kira’s ready for her next deadly hustle. Kira raked in a fortune from her last high-end scheme. And she snagged South Beach, Florida’s biggest kingpin, Dylan, as her sexy, very protective fiancé. But more game means nothing but more problems when one of the bodies dropped along the way is a judge friend of Kira’s influential father. And when he has Dylan arrested—and threatens to expose the lethal money behind Kira’s empire—she may have to silence her snitching pops for good … More ? | Esther Cooper Jackson (August 21, 1917 — August 23, 2022) was the co-founder of the magazine Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement and served as the magazine’s managing editor for the 25 years the magazine was published (1961 until 1985). Freedomways was an influential quarterly magazine that featured the writings of Kwame Nkrumah, John Henrik Clarke, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, and many more. The magazine also featured the art of Jacob Laurence, Romare Beardon, Elizabeth Catlett, and others. Learn More ? | Dear Reader, Your support is crucial to helping us improve AALBC..com. Your paid subscriptions, book purchases, suggestions, engagement on the site, social sharing, advertisements, and feedback help support AALBC’s mission of celebrating Black culture through books. Peace and Love,
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