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Black Book Bash

Black Book Bash Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Jacksonville Florida Black Book Bash isn’t just a book festival — it’s where Black storytelling, c...

Articles

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 ...

Authors

Ave Maria Cross

Ave Maria Cross As poet, playwright and teaching artist, Ave Maria Cross has practiced her passion and exercised her God-given talents for over 20 years, through re...

Interview

Gabrielle Union - The "Good Deeds" Interview (February 2012)

Gabrielle Union - The "Good Deeds" Interview One of today’s hottest stars, Gabrielle Union continues to shine. She will soon be seen in Screen Gems’ ...

Book

On Top Of The World: Until The Bell Chimes

by David Lamb

On Top Of The World: Until The Bell Chimes David Lamb Read more about this wonderful new novel. 2016 Best Fiction—Pacific Book Awards. From the award-winning playwrigh...

Book

the little book of e

by E. Ethelbert Miller

the little book of e E. Ethelbert Miller The poet lives inside and outside of life. In the little book of e poet E. Ethelbert Miller embraces the Japanese poetic form of...

Book Review

Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African-American Identity

"In this book, I will not detail every pathological condition that ever existed in African-American life. You won’t read about the endangered black male, the de...

Articles

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...

Excerpt

Black Man’s Version to Exhale

Introduction We know all too well of the frustrating encounters that many Black women have had when dealing with Black men. However, little has been written on the...

Book Review

Stepping into Womanhood: A Black Woman’s Poetic Journey

After reading sistah Traci Brooks’ book, Stepping into Womanhood: A Black Woman’s Poetic Journey, I was pleased that it wasn’t cover to cover agnst or b...

Book Review

Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama

"Dear Mrs. Obama, Do you have any idea what you mean to us? By us, I mean the strong, independent, accomplished black women of America. I suspect that on some leve...

Book Review

Men We Cherish

African-American Women Praise The Men In Their Lives, Edited by Brooke Stephens is an anthology. A book filled with laughter, heartache, inspiration, comfort, heart-mendi...

Authors

Tony Medina

Tony Medina Tony Medina (Photo: WideVision Photography) was born in the South Bronx, raised in the Throgs Neck Housing Projects, and currently lives in the Wa...

Articles

More Poetry!/Less Jam!

More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it’s absolute...

Book Review

Role Call

I encounter many literary anthologies that try to appease my appetite for new talent. But most of them fall short of their mark, and few of these collections are outstan...

Book Review

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

The publishing world and the legions of Terry McMillan fans can now officially exhale. McMillan’s long awaited "serious" novel, A Day Late and A Dol...

Interview

Jimmy Carter - The “White House Diary” Interview

Jimmy Carter - The "White House Diary" Interview photo © Sara Saunders   Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, received...

Book Review

Words to Our Now: Imagination & Dissent

’The word ’faggot’ itself is to me as nasty a form of violence as the perennial spit-nastiness in that classic American word ’nigger.’ As ...

Book

Gospel: Poems

by Samiya Bashir

Gospel: Poems Samiya Bashir Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Lambda Literary Award finalist. GOSPEL is an ecumenical resistance song in four parts. In this...

Book

The Chameleon Couch: Poems

by Yusef Komunyakaa

The Chameleon Couch: Poems Yusef Komunyakaa A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011A new and intimate collection from one of America’s most important poetsThe latest co...

Book

America, a Love Story

by Camille T. Dungy

America, a Love Story Camille T. Dungy New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. America, A Love Story is Cam...

Book Review

Kabu Kabu

American-Nigerian author Nnedi Okorakor’s first short fiction collection, Kabu Kabu, takes the reader by surprise, with its heady mix of fantasy, science ficti...

Book Review

Hope on a Tightrope

’We are now in one of the most truly prophetic moments in the history of America. The poor and very poor are sleeping with self-destruction. The w...

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