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Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards

Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Lincoln Theatre Washington District of Columbia Named for literary geniuses, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, the Hurston/Wright Founda...

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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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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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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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Troy Johnson

Troy Johnson A Shorter Biography of Troy Demetrius Johnson ▶ Troy Demetrius Johnson is the founder and president of the African American Literature Book Club (AA...

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Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing

by E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fic...

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Ravi Howard

Ravi Howard Ravi Howard received the 2001 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award for College Writers for his short story “Like Trees, Walking.”  After graduati...

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Marita Golden

Marita Golden In a professional writing career that spans more than twenty years, Marita Golden has distinguished herself as a novelist, essayist, teacher of writing...

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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...

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How is African American Literature Really Doing?

For those in the business of Black books in America, this is a common question; “How is African American Literature Doing?”  Some find the question difficult to ans...

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Elizabeth Nunez

Elizabeth Nunez Elizabeth Nunez, PhD, (February 8, 1944 – November 8, 2024) immigrated to the US from Trinidad after completing high school there. She is the award...

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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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AALBC.com May 2013 eNewsletter Book Highlights

AALBC.com Best-selling Books - March to April 2013 This version of AALBC.com's eNewsletter, which focuses on book related content is designed for Amazon Kind...

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Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Dolen Perkins-Valdez Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s fiction and essays have appeared in Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2009...

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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...

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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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Thief in the Interior

by Phillip B. Williams

Thief in the Interior Phillip B. Williams Recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards fo...

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Crystal Wilkinson

Crystal Wilkinson Crystal Wilkinson’s novels have won numerous awards. her 2016 novel The Birds of Opulence was the Winner of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Litera...

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Donika Kelly

Donika Kelly Donika Kelly is the author of The Natural Order of Things, The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of ...

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When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City

by Felicia B. George

When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City Felicia B. George Winner: A Michigan Notable Book! Finalist: The Hurston/Wrig...

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Women’s History Month Literary Festival

Women’s History Month Literary Festival MD State Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped Baltimore Maryland Three women writers discuss the intersection of place...

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Nowhere Is a Place

by Bernice L. McFadden

Nowhere Is a Place Bernice L. McFadden “Nowhere Is a Place is a powerful portrait of family secrets, damage, and healing, probing deep below the surface of an African Am...

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Mitchell S. Jackson

Mitchell S. Jackson Mitchell S. Jackson has been the recipient of fellowships from Urban Artist Initiative and The Center For Fiction. He teaches writing at New York Un...

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Zakes Mda

Zakes Mda Zakes Mda is a novelist, playwright, painter, music composer. Mda is from South African, and resides in the USA. He is also a creative writing professor at ...

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Camille T. Dungy

Camille T. Dungy Camille T. Dungy’s poems and essays have appeared 100 Best African American Poems and nearly 30 other anthologies. Other honors include two Northern Ca...

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David Chariandy

David Chariandy David Chariandy grew up in Toronto and lives and teaches in Vancouver. He is the author of I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter, and t...

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