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Author Nation Horseshoe Las Vegas Las Vegas Nevada Author Nation is the world’s largest indie author conference. ...
Nate Parker: The “The Birth of a Nation” Interview
The Birth of Nate’s Nation! Actor/humanitarian-turned-writer/director Nate Parker first received critical attention for his starring role in The Great Debate...
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview
Former Obama Green Czar Opines on the State of the "Carbon Nation" Anthony "Van" Jones and his twin sister, Angela, were born on September 20, 1968 in Jackson, T...
The Birth of a Nation
Reverential Biopic Revisits Life of Infamous Slave Revolt Leader Excellent (4 stars) In Theaters: October 7, 2016 Wide Rated R for brief nudity and disturbing viol...
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation Jon Meacham NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham reveals how the F...
Critically Acclaimed Children’s Book Author
Many children’s authors and illustrators come from the world of education but you also worked in the field of journalism for some major publications. What made ...
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy After Reconstruction Ira Katznelson "This ambitious book shows just how deeply entrenched white subjugation of blacks has b...
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement Nate Parker Also read “Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations” by Ezrah Aharone This officia...
June 2017 eNewsletter: The Best New Books, Author Info, and More
This Month’s Newsletter is Made Possible by Support From Amistad Authors You Should Know Tracy K. Smith The Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, recently nam...
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and ...
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden
AALBC Founder Troy Johnson with Tonya Bolden at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Tonya Bolden has written numerous bestselling books for children a...
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress David Levering Lewis As the world prepared for the Exposition Universalle de 1900 in...
Beasts of No Nation
As John A. Williams, that black titan of letters, often says ’there can never be enough political novels written by our community,’ the number of fiction dev...
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel Aaron McGruder This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humorists—answers th...
The African American Author’s Expo and Multi-Cultural Book Fair
The African American Author’s Expo and Multi-Cultural Book Fair Morgan State University - University Student Center Building Timonium Maryland 2016 marks seven years of...
May 2017 Newsletter: Bestselling Books, New Books, Author Info, and Much More
Our May Newsletter is Generously Sponsored by Amistad Bestselling Books Bestselling Books: March/April 2017 Provenance a novel by Donna Drew Sawyer, which tops o...
Alex Haley and the Books that Changed a Nation
In Alex Haley and the Books that Changed a Nation, Robert J. Norrell, professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), explores the complicated life ...
An Author You Should Know (Married Couples Edition)
“An Author You Should Know” is a regular feature of AALBC.com where we promote noteworthy authors on our homepage, blog (see right hand side of this page), social me...
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulator...
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital Tonya Bolden Capital Days introduces young readers to Washington, D.C., during the early...
The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation
South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn’s The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation provides the type of history th...
Death of the Author
Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor 2026 NAACP Image Award Winner The Instant National Bestseller Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Ro...
Gil L. Robertson IV: Award-Winning Author Assesses the State of Black Relationships
Award-Winning Author Assesses the State of Black Relationships Gil L. Robertson IV is one of America’s foremost authorities on African-American pop cultur...
Author Martha Southgate Reflects on the State of African American Fiction
This article was brought to my attention by author Eisa Ulen (www.EisaUlen.com/blog).Author Martha Southgate (http://authors.aalbc.com/martha_southgate.htm) muses about t...
April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More
AALBC.com Congratulates all the Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in the Letters and Drama Categories Fiction: Colson Whitehead for his novel Underground Railroad Poetry: Tyeh...
Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006
Egyptian/Sudanese-American writer Kola Boof is the author of seven books published in eight countries. Her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl (Door of Kush, ...
Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation
Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation Robert J. Norrell It is difficult to think of two twentieth century books by one author that have had as much influence on...
One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture
One Nation Under A Groove: Motown and American Culture Gerald L. Early In its heyday Motown Records was a household word, one of the most famous and successful black-owne...
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning Resmaa Menakem “…a volume our country, our bodies, and our humani...
Afro-mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation
Afro-mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation Paulette A. Ramsay Paulette Ramsay’s study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-...
A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation Veronica Chambers Forget the stereotypes. Today’s Japanese women are shattering them — break...
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Russell Freedman ”A voice like yours,” celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini tol...
Ghetto Nation
’Ghetto no longer refers to where you live, it is how you live. It is a mind-set’ a mind-set that thinks the M words — monogamy and marriage &rsqu...
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present Joanne V. Gabbin The Furious Flower Conference of 1994 represented the largest gatheri...
Are Reading Rates Declining in the African American Community?
Frequent AALBC.com visitors may already know I consider search results biased toward large corporate sites the main culprit in reducing the traffic going to in...
Veracity and Verse
“Then the Lord said to me, ‘Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others. This vision is for a future time&hel...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle Help AALBC.com support our literary legacy. If you find somethi...
The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
“…aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept.”―Larry Neal The Black Arts Movement spans the period from the mid 1960’s to...
Dr. West’s Prognosis for the Country's Prospects
Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative public intellectual dedicated to democracy. Currently the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton Unive...
List of Contributors to Step into a World
The Following is the List of Contributors to This Amazing Volume Toyin Adewale is a native of Emure-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Born in 1969, she has absolutel...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
AALBC.com assessed the relative strengths of almost 300 American cities, to determine which ones are best able to provide environments that are supportive of, and conduci...
We, As a People, Will Get to the Promised Land!
Dr. King’s last sermon was delivered April 3, 1968, at the Church of God in Christ Headquarters, Memphis, Tennessee Your browser does not support the ...
100 Bestselling Authors, New Books, and More: October 2016 eNewsletter
Our Top 100, All-time, Bestselling Authors We are excited to present our regularly updated list of our top 100, all-time, bestselling authors. This list of bestselling a...
Temple Folk
Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America. In ...
Elijah Muhammad
Elijah Muhammad The Honorable Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an African-American religious leader, who led the ...
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan was born on May 11, 1933 in The Bronx, NY. He was raised in Roxbury, Massachusetts, by his mother, a native of St. ...
Book Reviewing, African-American Style
This article appeared in the September 16, 2002 edition of The Nation On April 14 [2002], my review of Maya Angelou’s A Song Flung Up to Heaven appeared in the ...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene Professor, writer and scholar, Dr. Brenda M. Greene is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature, Director of the National Black ...
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense Aya de León Praise for A Spy in the Struggle The author of the four Justice Hustlers novels — mysteries w...
Complete List of 1,453 Titles Sold in 2006
Complete List of 1,453 Titles Sold in 2006 In 2006 AALBC.com sold 1,453 different titles via the Amazon.com affiliate program. Th...
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More
Videos from the National Book Club Conference I attended the 2018 National Book Club Conference August 3rd and 4th. The conference is really like attending a family re...
Good Books, Films, Events & Articles – May 2014 eNewsletter
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Read This to Discover Great Authors, Books, Events & More
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God and Race in American Politics
"Together, race and religion make up, not only the nation’s deepest and most enduring moral problem, but also its broadest and most enduring political influence...
Ali
""A notable and articulate advocacy of black conscientious objection came from the Nation of Islam. In 1942 Elijah Muhammad was arrested in Chicago and convic...
Enrich Your Life; Read a Good Book – August 2014 eNewsletter
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader, or any device by downloading a PDF version. E...
Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature
Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature by Wade Hudson This Diversity Books Pledge was developed after attending Day of Diversity, sponsored by the As...
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress Howard Zinn "Thank you, Howard Zinn. Thank you for telling us what none of our leaders are willing to: The truth. And you tell it with...
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Jon Meacham "Fascinating and insightful … Many books have been written about Jefferson’s life, but few have created such a vivid po...
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne and Tamara Payne “Les Payne’s The Dead Are Arising is a brilliant and indispensable depiction of the life of M...
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Wes Moore "An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray … Readers w...
Introduction and Chapter 9 – B. C. Franklin
Introduction and Chapter 9 – B. C. Franklin “Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders ...
AALBC.com eNewsletter March 28th 2006
The Following is an excerpt of AALBC.com's March 28th eNewsletter:MAKING THE BEST OF AALBC.comTip #1 — Use the Google Search EngineAALBC.com is a massive web site; make...
God Bless Our Divided America: Unity, Politics and History from a Biblical Perspective
God Bless Our Divided America: Unity, Politics and History from a Biblical Perspective David W. Marshall History is a powerful tool we can use to study the past, as well ...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed Obama Talks Back: "provides a rare glimpse into the private...
Come On, Jesse: Don’t Hate The Playa, Hate The Game!
Jesse Jackson, Sr.’s “;live mike” comments about Barack Obama reminds us that there’s always someone laying in the cut to divide ...
Malcolm X: The Lost Tapes
Intriguing Documentary Features Found Footage of Late Civil Rights Icon Excellent () Unrated Running time: 51 minutes)Production Studio: 1895 Films)Distributor: Smit...
Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology
Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology Paperback: 299 pages Publisher: Girls Write Now (2015) (May 19, 2015) Dimensions: 3.5 x 2.4 x 0.4 inches From one...
Excellent Books, Authors, Events and More
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30+ Must Read Books - Something for Everyone
Our January 2016 eNewsletter was sponsored by author Russell A. Mabane. Learn how you may sponsor an AALBC.com eNewsletter. Bestselling Books for November/De...
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Toni Morrison Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison, investigates Black ...
The Black Box (paperback): Writing the Race
The Black Box (paperback): Writing the Race Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A New York Times Notable Book “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an ...
The Black Box: Writing the Race
The Black Box: Writing the Race Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal med...
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book Keila V. Dawson During a time when taking a trip across the nation could be dangerous for Black Americans, one man ...
With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America
With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Bible, the Constitution, and Racism in America Susan K. Williams Smith Why have our foundational documents failed people of col...
Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace
Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace D.L. Hughley Surrender, white people! After 400 years of white supremacy in America, a reckoning is here. Thes...
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Erika Lee This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading for anyone who wants to...
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Wash...
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X Rodnell P. Collins and A. Peter Bailey SINCE MALCOLM X EXPLOSIVE AUTOBIOGRAAPHY THIS IS THE M0ST IMPORTANT BOOK YOU’LL EVER ...
Mychal Denzel Smith
Mychal Denzel Smith Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer at The Nation, a blogger at TheNation.com, and an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is th...
Kelvin Boston
Kelvin Boston Kelvin E. Boston is a Financial journalist, author, and entrepreneur. Kelvin Boston believes that financial education is the key that unlocks the doors t...
Wesley Muhammad
Wesley Muhammad Dr. Wesley Muhammad is an American scholar, author, and public speaker known for his research and teachings on various topics related to history, religion...
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery
Frederick Douglass once said, “The American Government and the American Constitution are spoken of in a manner which would naturally lead the hearer to believe that...
Former Editor-in-Chief of Essence Magazine Opens Akwaaba D.C. Inn for Black Writers
Washington, D.C.: Hundreds of book lovers (in addition to a host of best-selling authors, literary activists, and media personnel) joined Monique Greenwood, aut...
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic ’Never Say Die; Be Optimistic’ ’Sounds of Blackness &rs...
AALBC.com’s eNewsletter – October 28, 2014
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Read Until You Understand
With a solid array of books to her credit, Farah Jasmine Griffin has possibly written one of the artistic highlights in the national book marketplace this season. Her new...
Video Coverage of the 2018 National Book Club Conference
I attended the 2018 National Book Club Conference August 3rd and 4th. I have not attended since the 2010. The conference is really was like attending a family reuni...
Notes from a Hip Hop Head
April 19, 2007 An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey: Notes from a Hip Hop Head by Saul Williams Dear Ms. Winfrey, It is with the greatest respect a...
Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems
June 2005, almost a decade ago, was the time I last visited New Orleans. It was still almost the Big Easy I knew in the mid-1980s. Several months later the nation obs...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the...
Daryle Jenkins - Interview, Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama
Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama Daryle Jenkins - The One People's Project Interview with Kam Will...
Behold the 9th Wonder of the World!
Behold the 9th Wonder of the World! Born Patrick Denard Douthit in Winston-Salem, NC on January 15, 1975, 9th Wonder is a Grammy Award-winning producer, ...
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference Fort Lauderdale Florida The South Florida Book Festival and Literary Conference is one of the nation’s fastes...
My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections And Precious Memories
My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections And Precious Memories Carrolyn Pichet Overview My Lovely Golden Rose is a delightful collection of the author’...
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books
“Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.” —Ethiopian proverb AALBC.com’s Bestselling Books - January to February 2015 The #1 selling book on AALBC.com, for Jan...
Colin Channer on Caribbean Literature, the Black Readers, Love, Urban Fiction, and the Art of Writing
With the stunning 1998 publication of Waiting In Vain, Colin Channer introduced the sensuality and spirituality of reggae as a literary form on American shores, mixing...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle AALBC.com's 25 Best Selling Books For July 1st through August 31st 2012...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197
AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197 I hope you enjoy AALBC.com's last eNewsletter for 2012. Please take a moment to complete our short Website an...
Witnessing and Testifying
At the dawn of this new millennium when the "bimbo-ization" of American women is in full flower it is instructive to look back to times when women were the prim...