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Louisiana Book Festival

Louisiana Book Festival State Library of Louisiana and nearby locations Baton Rouge Louisiana The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana is a fre...

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The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University

The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns t...

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New Orleans Book Festival

New Orleans Book Festival Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The Festival features both fiction and non-fiction convenes reading, panel discussions, symposia and key...

Articles

The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!

A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the bookseller for their popular ESSENCE Festival....

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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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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 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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★ Award Winning Titles, Book Reviews and More - April Newsletter

NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work This year the NAACP celebrates the 50th anniversary of their Image Awards. Awards for “Outstanding Literary Wo...

Interview

Migrated Interviews

Migrated Interviews Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview Alisa Hyman - Book Reviewer, Educator Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwanda" Interview -...

Articles

AALBC.com eNewsletter – November 30th 2012 – Issue #196

AALBC.com would like to thank all of you for being loyal readers of our eNewsletter. We are proud to have continuously published this eNewsletter for over 15 years --...

Interview

Quvenzhané Wallis The “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Interview

Quvenzhané “Nazie” Wallis was born on August 28, 2003, in Houma, Louisiana where she attends Honduras Elementary School. She is the daugh...

Book

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood

by Fatima Shaik

Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood Fatima Shaik One hundred years of elaborate handwritten journals recovered from the trash reveal early Black ...

Interview

Tishuan Scott “The Retrieval” Interview 2014

Tishuan Scott “The Retrieval” Interview Tishuan Scott was born on October 27, 1979 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia...

Interview

Forest Whitaker “The Butler” Interview (August 2013) with Kam Williams

This Forest’s on Fire in Lee Daniel's Film The Butler Forest Whitaker is a distinguished artist and humanist. He is the founder of PeaceEarth Foundation, co-fou...

Authors

Jesse Byrd

Jesse Byrd Jesse Byrd, Jr. storyteller and dual-native of California and Louisiana. At 6 feet 8 inches tall, Jesse paid for his college education by playing basketball at...

Book

The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans

by Ned Sublette

The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans Ned Sublette With a style the Los Angeles Times calls as "vivid and fast-moving as the music he loves," Ned Sublette’s...

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