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Martha's Vineyard Black Book Festival
Martha's Vineyard Black Book Festival Island Inn Conference Center Oak Bluffs Massachusetts A celebration of Black literary excellence with author showcases, panel discussions, appetizers & refreshmen...
Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island
Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island Jill Nelson 9780385505666 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In this elegant book of photographs, personal narrative, memories,...
Martha Kennerson
Martha Kennerson NONE Martha Kennerson, a bestselling and award-winning author, uses her passion for reading and writing to create heartfelt stories. Known for her novels Choices and Consequences and...
Martha and Hanwell
Martha and Hanwell Zadie Smith 9780141023120 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Martha and Hanwell is a Penguin Pocket collection of two short stories by British author, Zadie Smith.“Mart...
The Dorothy West Marthas Vineyard: Stories, Essays And Reminiscences By Dorothy West Writing In The Vineyard Gazette
The Dorothy West Marthas Vineyard: Stories, Essays And Reminiscences By Dorothy West Writing In The Vineyard Gazette Dorothy West, Renae Nadine Shackelford, and James Robert Saunders 9780786408924 Non...
Runner
Runner Ashton Lattimore 9780593975459 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House Buckle up, readers! Ashton Lattimore’s gripping Prohibition-era novel follows two women rumrunners who risk everythi...
Darlene Williams
Darlene Williams NONE Darlene Williams is an award-winning businesswoman, adjunct lecturer, bestselling author, and nationally recognized youth and literacy advocate. She serves as President of the ...
Black Authors Festival @ATL
Black Authors Festival @ATL Norwood Vineyard & Gardens Jonesboro Georgia The Black Authors Festival @ATL Harbor Sneaker Ball on the Vineyard is a premier fusion of culture, luxury, and purpose, where ...
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895 Larry Eugene Rivers 9780813018904 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida "Labor...
Martha Southgate
Martha Southgate 0000000057596619 Martha Southgate, award-winning author of novels such as “Third Girl from the Left” and “The Fall of Rome,” is a recipient of several fellowships and grants. Known f...
Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade
Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade Gary Phillips 9781684974498 Fiction ABLAZE ABLAZE Former Las Vegas showgirl Martha Chainey is a statuesque woman of color with a penchant for martial a...
A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel
A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel Rosey Lee 9780593445518 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House One of the Gardin women must navigate a season rich with unexpected challenges in the fo...
Naleighna Kai and Martha Kennerson
Naleighna Kai and Martha Kennerson MULTIPLE Naleighna Kai and Martha Kennerson are renowned authors known for their diverse and impactful works in literature. Naleighna Kai and Martha Kennerson
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage MULTIPLE Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage are renowned authors with significant contribut...
Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson
Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson MULTIPLE "Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Li...
Naleighna Kai, Martha Kennerson, J. L. Campbell, Karen D. Bradley, and Stephanie M. Freeman
Naleighna Kai, Martha Kennerson, J. L. Campbell, Karen D. Bradley, and Stephanie M. Freeman MULTIPLE Naleighna Kai, Martha Kennerson, J.L. Campbell, Karen D. Bradley, and Stephanie M. Freeman are ren...
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story Kam Williams Book Review "I had finally run out of options… There I was. Locked in a tiny jail cell, staring into space and wondering how my lif...
Blood in the Water
Blood in the Water Tiffany D. Jackson 9781338849912 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. This stunning edition features sprayed edges. While supplies last! Mega bestselling and award-winning au...
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition Erica Armstrong Dunbar 9781534416178 Nonfiction Aladdin Simon & Schus...
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story Martha Marie Preston 9780615504292 Fiction Quintrell Public Relations Quintrell Public Relations Indicted on 23 counts and convicted of four, multimillion...
Naleighna Kai, Renee Bernard, J.L. Woodson, Joyce A Brown, D. J. McLaurin, Candy Jackson, Janice Pernell, Valarie Prince, Martha Kennerson, Susan D. Peters, Tanishia Pearson-Jones, and L. A. Lewis
Naleighna Kai, Renee Bernard, J.L. Woodson, Joyce A Brown, D. J. McLaurin, Candy Jackson, Janice Pernell, Valarie Prince, Martha Kennerson, Susan D. Peters, Tanishia Pearson-Jones, and L. A. Lewis MUL...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
Summer on the Bluffs
Summer on the Bluffs Sunny Hostin 9780062994172 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Emmy Award winner, renowned lawyer and journalist, The View cohost, and National Bestselling author Sunny Hostin da...
Matthew A. Cherry
Matthew A. Cherry 0000000500418922 Former NFL wide receiver, Matthew A. Cherry, transitioned into filmmaking after his retirement in 2007. He's known for directing over 20 music videos, his feature f...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
Martha S. Jones
Martha S. Jones 0000000063130719 Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of history, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at the Johns Hopkins Universi...
Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color
Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color Cherene Sherrard-Johnson 9780813551678 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Dorothy West is best known as one of the you...
Shadows of the Blues
Shadows of the Blues Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Whitney J. Leblanc’s sequel to "Blues in the Wind," readers are introduced to the lives of the Ferguson and Broussard familie...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage 9781469620916 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir Martha S. Jones 9781541601000 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of ...
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones 9781541600256 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books The epic history of African American women’...
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 Martha S. Jones 9780807858455 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press ...
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale Of Love And Deception Across The Color Line
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale Of Love And Deception Across The Color Line Martha A. Sandweiss 9781594202001 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House The secret double life of the man who map...
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America Martha S. Jones 9781316604724 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Birthright Citizens tells how Afr...
Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha: A Critical Collection
Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha: A Critical Collection Jacqueline Bryant 9780883782378 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Ten literary experts on the work of Gwendolyn Brooks unite in this c...
Author Martha Southgate Reflects on the State of African American Fiction
Author Martha Southgate Reflects on the State of African American Fiction Troy Johnson Article This article was brought to my attention by author Eisa Ulen (www.EisaUlen.com/blog).Author Martha South...
Mai Sennaar
Mai Sennaar NONE Mai Sennaar is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The Smithsonian Affiliate Museum of the African Diaspora, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Class...
Annette Gordon-Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed 0000000035723517 Annette Gordon-Reed, a professor of law and history, authored “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.” She delves into the complex and intim...
The Gardins of Edin
The Gardins of Edin Rosey Lee 9780593445495 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal their woun...
The Taste Of Salt
The Taste Of Salt Martha Southgate 9781565129252 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the words of Julia Glass, “can write fat and hot,...
Maud Martha
Maud Martha Gwendolyn Brooks 9780883780619 Fiction Third World Press Third World Press September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Br...
A Simple Lust: Collected Poems of South African Jail & Exile including Letters to Martha (African Writers Series)
A Simple Lust: Collected Poems of South African Jail & Exile including Letters to Martha (African Writers Series) Dennis Brutus 9780435901158 Poetry Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Letters to Mart...
Platinum Promises (Harlequin Kimani RomanceThe Drakes of California)
Platinum Promises (Harlequin Kimani RomanceThe Drakes of California) Zuri Day 9780373863051 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Seduction in the lap of luxury…Award-winning wines ha...
Spice
Spice Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson 9781732622517 Fiction Macro Publishing Gr...
Blues in the Wind
Blues in the Wind Whitney J. Leblanc 9780913515471 Fiction River City Publishing River City Publishing First-time novelist LeBlanc has created a saga of the birth of the blues. In 1930s Louisiana, Phi...
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg 0000000120269646 Calvin Broadus, known as Snoop Dogg, is a renowned rapper from Long Beach, California. After overcoming legal struggles, he launched his career with Dr. Dre, achieving qua...
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class Lawrence Otis Graham 9780060183523 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Debutante cotillions. Arranged marriages. Summer trips to Martha’s Vineyard. A...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival Family Life Center 1 Redheart Drive, Hampton, VA 23661 Hampton Virginia Upon returning from an out of state book festival, Florenza Denise Lee wondered wh...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
East of the River Book Festival
East of the River Book Festival Rocketship Rise Academy Washington District of Columbia The 2017 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to recognize and enjoy a l...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Curtis Hixon Park Tampa Florida The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is an annual, cultural arts & music festival that takes place over the course of 10 days in Tamp...
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 to Tulane’s uptown campus...
AJC Decatur Book Festival
AJC Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Decatur Georgia The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, ...
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival Literary Events Kellie Magnus tells AALBC.com about the Kingston Book Festival during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. AALBC.com is planning a group trip t...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
Black Hamptons
Black Hamptons Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt 9781645564706 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the...
LaKesa Cox
LaKesa Cox NONE LaKesa Cox is an award-winning author and screenwriter with over 20 years of experience. She has published four novels and has contributed to two anthologies. She was acknowledged as ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Troy Johnson Article Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes...
San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while...
Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Book Festival Ann Arbor Michigan Formed in 2003, the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture ...
Jael Richardson
Jael Richardson NONE Jael Ealey Richardson is a Toronto-based author and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing. Known for her memoir and children's book, both titled The Stone Thrower, her work re...
Southern Festival of Books
Southern Festival of Books Nashville Tennessee The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written WordSM is a three-day Festival celebrated each year during the second full weekend of Octob...
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 featuring, Elizabeth Alexander, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Lalita Tademy and Linda A. Duggins Women’s History M...
Dahlonega Literary Festival
Dahlonega Literary Festival Historic Square of Dahlonega, GA Dahlonega Georgia The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books that takes place in March. Situated in Historic Downtow...
Books in Bloom Literary Festival
Books in Bloom Literary Festival Color Burst Park Columbia Maryland Books In Bloom is an innovative, progressive, and memorable festival, poised to be one of the premier book festivals in the region. ...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
Toni Blackman
Toni Blackman 0000000036920264 Toni Blackman, an international champion of hip-hop culture, is known for her captivating performances and powerful presence. She's the first hip-hop artist to work as ...
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Hotel Monteleone New Orleans Louisiana The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach...
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto International Festival of Authors Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada Since its inception in 1974, Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from ov...
Etheridge Knight Festival
Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Inc. P.O. Box 18043 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Phone (317) 396-1529.Fax (317) 925-1481 E-mail EKFestival@aol.com The 11th Ann...
University Spring Literary Festival
University Spring Literary Festival Ohio University Athens Ohio Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-...
Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies
Chloe: A Novel of Secrets and Lies Connie Briscoe 9780063338562 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● July 26, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT New York Times bestselling author C...
Athena Dixon
Athena Dixon NONE Athena Dixon, a Northeast Ohio native, is a renowned poet, essayist, and editor, featured in 'The BreakBeat Poets Vol.2: Black Girl Magic'. An alumna of VONA, Callaloo, and Tin Hous...
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault 000000006701669X Charlayne Hunter-Gault, born in 1942, is an Emmy-winning journalist and author of five books. Beginning her career at the New Yorker, she became the first Blac...
Walter Pryor
Walter Pryor NONE Walter Pryor's professional career has spanned a myriad of sectors in the legal arena, having worked in both large and small law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice, Capitol Hill,...
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Calvin Alexander Ramsey NONE Calvin Alexander Ramsey is a multi-talented artist known for his award-winning children's books, photography, folk art painting, and plays. His works have been recognized...