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What Happened to the Best African American Literary Magazines?

I'm a collector.   My family calls it hoarding.  While I'm a big proponent of electronic books, I still love to surround myself with books and magazines.  Recently I h...

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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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Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter?

Editors’s Note: Check out Dawkins’ book about The City Sun’s publisher Andrew W. Cooper A decade ago in fall 1996, The City Sun set, ye...

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Jennifer Cruté

Jennifer Cruté Jennifer Cruté started writing comics in 2003. She is featured in a Current TV segment about women in comics called "KAPOW! The New Comic Boo...

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AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195

Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle By Troy Johnson Authors You Should Know Countée Porter Cullen http...

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Ken Burns Interviewed (April 2013).

Legendary Filmmaker Discusses His Latest Documentary Photo Credit dbking Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years. Since the Academy Award-no...

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Zoe Johnson

Zoe Johnson Zoe Johnson loves to draw.  More importantly, Zoe loves to draw comic strips.  At 8 years old she has already created two memorable characters J...

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Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview (2014)

Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview Since retiring from the NFL, Terry Crews has traded in his helmet and cleats to pursue an acting career while also beco...

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Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)

by justin a. reynolds

Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s Spider-Man, Mi...

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Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)

by justin a. reynolds

Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds An original middle grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s Spider-Man, Mi...

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Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb

by Veronica Chambers

Shirley Chisholm Is a Verb Veronica Chambers Veronica Chambers is the award-winning author of many books for children and adults, including Mama’s Girl and Celia Cruz, ...

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New People

by Danzy Senna

New People Danzy Senna Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND TIME MAGAZINENamed A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ BYVogue • Elle • Harpe...

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The Notebooks

by Jean-Michel Basquiat

The Notebooks Jean-Michel Basquiat Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scene...

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The Family Mansion

by Anthony C. Winkler

The Family Mansion Anthony C. Winkler "The brutalities of Jamaica’s past and the myriad social and cultural contradictions that contributed to it are conveyed with a ge...

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Substitute Me

by Lori Tharps

Substitute Me Lori Tharps Zora Anderson is a 30-year-old African American middle class, college educated woman, trained as a chef, looking for a job. As fate would have i...

Interview

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...

Book Review

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones

If It Ain’t Speculative and It Ain’t Fiction Need Black Folks Read Speculative Fiction? It distresses me when I can grant only qualified approval such an o...

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Exercise Your Mind With a Good Book – July 29, 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....

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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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Brandon McCalla

Brandon McCalla Brandon Dewitt McCalla was born in Brooklyn New York. He was always an intense reader starting with Marvel Comic books, but a copy of J.R.R.Tolkien’s Th...

Book Review

Love Don’t Come Easy

Boy looks for girl. Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Boy looks for another girl. J.T. Smith puts a fresh spin on an old formula in his highly entertaining debut novel, L...

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Awaken Me

by Farrah Rochon

Awaken Me Farrah Rochon "As the baby of his family, Reid Holmes has happily played the role of the Charming, Irresponsible One. But as his 30th birthday approaches, Reid ...

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Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid

Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid is the first book in a series of chapter books targeted to young girls of color. The series author Din...

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Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales to the Rescue!: Meet the Amazing Web-Slinger!

by David Fentiman

Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales to the Rescue!: Meet the Amazing Web-Slinger! David Fentiman Learn to read with Marvel’s Spider-Man! Miles Morales might seem like j...

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Blacktrospective 2007

Blacktrospective 2007 Annual Look Back at the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema by Kam Williams   With two excellent off...

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Joseph Earl Thomas

Joseph Earl Thomas Joseph Earl Thomas is an author known for his unique and poignant storytelling. His first major work, Sink: A Memoir, published in 2022, explores his c...

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Born to Win

"No Negro player, man or woman, had ever set foot on one of these courts. In many ways, it was an even tougher personal Jim Crow-busting assignment than was Jackie...

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Remembering Glenn Thompson

Born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, Glenn Thompson [September 24, 1940 – September 7, 2001] left the U. S. as a young man and traveled extensively througho...

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