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Great Books, Events, Films & More - October 2015 eNewsletter

AALBC.com’s Best Selling Books — July/August 2015 We just published our ten best selling fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books for the period July 1 through ...

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Soledad O Brien - The "CNN Presents: Black in America 2" Interview

  Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris - ' WireImage.com Born on September 19, 1966 in Saint James, NY, Maria de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is the f...

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Top 50 Authors, Bestselling Books, and More

50 Favorite African-American Authors of the 20th Century 1,826 readers cast votes, back in 2001, for their favorite African-American authors. Here we share the 50 au...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition Margot Lee Shetterly New York Times bestselling author Margot Lee Shetterly’s book is now available in a new edition perfect for...

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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...

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The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 3

Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 3 of 3     “Elizabeth Nunez, the conference director and the director of t...

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St. Martin's Press - Backlist

St. Martin's New Releases | Writer's Home | AALBC.com Home   St. Martin's Press � 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 � 212-674-5151   I Know ...

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Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More!

Terrific New Books Coming in May Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove will publish a collection of her poetry from the 30 year period, 1974 to 2004. There are also new n...

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Evan Ross - The "Gardens of the Night" Interview

    Evan Olaf Ross was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on August 26, 1988 to pop diva Diana Ross and Norwegian shipping magnate Ame Naess...

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Touré: Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now

Touré - The “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” Interview Born in Boston on March 20, 1971, Touré is a cultural critic for MSNBC, ...

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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...

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Black Like You

’Listening to Knipp, a white man, impersonating Shirley Q. Liquor, a Black woman, was one thing. Actually seeing a white man in blackface drag on a s...

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Bestselling Books, Book Reviews, & More - May 2019 Newsletter

New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby is the magnificent follow-up to the original, celebrated anthology, updated for a new generation- an international collect...

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Black Books Galore! AALBC.com's November 2016 eNewsletter

Picador USA – Our eNewsletter Sponsor for November Read one of the year’s most highly lauded – and highly provocative – books, now the first American winner of...

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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...

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The “Politics: Another Perspective” Interview

Wilmer J. Leon, III is a political scientist whose primary areas of expertise are Black Politics American Government, and Public Policy. Dr. Leon has a B.S. degree in...

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Baldwin: A Love Story

Long before I met James Baldwin’s friend Vertamae Grosvenor, I was a preteen Black boy who had read the writer’s bold novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, and it...

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Denzel Whitaker - Interview [2010]

Denzel Dominique Whitaker was born in Torrance, California on June 15, 1990 to Dale and Younalanda Whitaker. He made his acting debut at 11 in Training Day op...

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Gladys Knight - The "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" Interview

  The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight is a testament to that sage maxim. Over the last half-century, this seven-time Grammy-winner has enjoye...

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March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More

New Books Coming Out March 2017 Helene Cooper tells the amazing of story Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement and the first democratically el...

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Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit

by Queen Afua

Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit Queen Afua For two decades, hundreds of thousands of women have turned to Sacred Woman, hailed as the...

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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 ...

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Troy Johnson on #WritersonWriting with Dr. Brenda M. Greene (#Center4BlackLit)

Dr. Brenda Greene interviews Troy Johnson, the founder of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC) and President of AALBC.com, LLC. Greene and Johnson discuss th...

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Harlem Bible: In The Beginning

by Grant Harper Reid

Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant Harper Reid has authored his ...

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New Books Worth Checking Out - July 2013

At least once a month, on my Blog, I will share information about new books that I think you will enjoy.   If you subscribe to my blog, via your Kindle or through an RS...

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Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson

How many of us pray when we board an airplane? Not everyone. This author, James T. Hollin Jr., a former military pilot and experienced airline veteran, writes of the...

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Are Negro Girls Getting Prettier?

Ebony February 1966, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p25 The article focuses on the improvements in the beauty, health and personality of African American women. According to a surve...

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Alain Locke: An Introduction

ALAIN LOCKE: AN INTRODUCTION(Part 1)      Alain Locke established his intellectual brilliance by a lifetime of study and teaching. This include...

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Crystal Lacey Winslow

Crystal Lacey Winslow Brooklyn-born author Crystal Lacey Winslow began to write creatively at an early age drawing inspiration from her travels and the many colorful ...

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Maya Soetoro-Ng: The “Ladder to the Moon” Interview

Born in Jakarta, Indonesia on August 15, 1970, Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a lecturer at the University of Hawaii’s College of Education but is perhaps bette...

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Seven Sisters And A Brother

History has recorded many instances of struggles for varied rights by a people haunted by the legacies of slavery. Yet, too often some such occurrences, though no less ...

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Vincent Alexandria

Vincent Alexandria Vincent Alexandria is a nationally published author, he is also an actor, producer, director, composer, lyricist, screenwriter, vocalist, and musician....

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