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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 Annual Etheridge Knig...
National Black Book Festival
National Black Book Festival Fallbrook Church / Gymnasium Houston Texas The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored by Cushcity.com, the world&r...
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...
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Years The Hugo Awards are generally considered the highest honors ...
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 ...
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...
April 2014 eNewsletter - Good Books, Films, Events, Articles & More
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader. Enjoy our previous eNewsletters. Sponso...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 2
Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 2 of 3 “Elizabeth Nunez, the conference director and the director of t...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes of the past decade have been t...
March 28, 2017 Newsletter — Book Recommendations, News, Contests, and More
Top 120 Children’s Books from the Past 50 Years Our list of the Top 120 Children’s Books published over the last half century is updated on an ongoing basis and refl...
Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books
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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...
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...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phone at 314.369.6130. 3rd Annual Blackboard Midwest...
Exercise Your Mind With a Good Book – July 29, 2014 eNewsletter
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April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More
AALBC.com Congratulates all the Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in the Letters and Drama Categories Fiction: Colson Whitehead for his novel Underground Railroad Poetry: Tyeh...
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...
September eNewsletter: Bestselling Books, 118 Book Events, and More
July/August 2016 Bestselling Books Titles on Go On Girl! Book Club's reading list are prominent on our bestsellers list this period. This is good, because these books ...
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...
Antigua & Barbuda Literary Festival 2008 - Was a Blast
I have never attended an event that was more personally fulfilling and fun in my entire life! Participants which included authors like; Antiguan phenom Marie Elena John, ...
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More!
Terrific New Books Coming in May Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove will publish a collection of her poetry from the 30 year period, 1974 to 2004. There are also new n...
30+ Must Read Books - Something for Everyone
Our January 2016 eNewsletter was sponsored by author Russell A. Mabane. Learn how you may sponsor an AALBC.com eNewsletter. Bestselling Books for November/De...
Good Books, Films, Events & Articles – May 2014 eNewsletter
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing or download a PDF version. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader. Enjoy our previou...
Black Women Lead the Way Promoting Black Culture through Books
“Where a woman rules, streams run uphill.” —Ethiopian proverb AALBC.com’s Bestselling Books - January to February 2015 The #1 selling book on AALBC.com, for Jan...
THE BLACK SCHOLAR: Journal of Black Studies and Research
Volume 1 Number 1 November 1969 Mission Statement From the Inaugural Issue: THE BLACK SCHOLAR has been born out of the struggle of black scholars, black intellectuals...
Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010!
There are only 2 days left to cast your vote for the finalists of the Best Book trailer of 2010. Cast you vote now: https://bit.ly/bestbooktrailer2010 From the 50...
AALBC.com’s eNewsletter – October 28, 2014
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Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene Professor, writer and scholar, Dr. Brenda M. Greene is Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature, Director of the National Black ...
Linda A. Duggins
Linda A. Duggins Linda A. Duggins is the Director of Multicultural Publicity at Hachette Book Group, USA. As Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair, she has helped to...
100 Bestselling Authors, New Books, and More: October 2016 eNewsletter
Our Top 100, All-time, Bestselling Authors We are excited to present our regularly updated list of our top 100, all-time, bestselling authors. This list of bestselling a...
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996)
’ An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) by ’Marie Brown (presented at the Second Symposium/Performance Monday Dece...
March 26th 2013 – eNewsletter Highlights
Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com mourns the passing of Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 — March 22, 2013) Author of classic nov...
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 --...
Regie Gibson
Regie Gibson Regie Gibson is a poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator. Regie has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theate...
March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More
New Books Coming Out March 2017 Helene Cooper tells the amazing of story Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement and the first democratically el...
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 ...
Tony Rose
Tony Rose Tony Rose (October 11, 1950 – May 27, 2025) was the Publisher and CEO of Amber Communications Group, Inc. the nation’s largest African-American publ...
February 28th 2013 - eNewsletter Highlights
Our monthly eNewsletter contains information about books and films by or about people of African descent. Authors You Should Know (Children's Book Authors) Sharon ...
★ 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...
eNewsletter Highlights – January 31st 2013 – Issue #198
Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com's Bestselling Books Lists We've just published three new bestselling books lists. Our bimonthly bestselling books for N...
Omarosa - The "Life After" Interview
A Tete-a-Tete with the Top Reality-TV Villain of All Time Omaroseonee Manigault-Stallworth was on February 15, 1974 born in Youngstown, O...
She is Global, an Artist, a Movement—Malaika Adero is “Global I Aam”
Kalisha Buckanon, John McGregor, Deborah Cowell, and Troy Johnson, president of he African American Literature Book Club (Photo Credit Marcia E. Wilson 2016) An...
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic ’Never Say Die; Be Optimistic’ ’Sounds of Blackness &rs...
Darlene Williams
Darlene Williams Darlene Williams is an award-winning businesswoman, adjunct lecturer, bestselling author, and nationally recognized youth and literacy advocate. She serv...
Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora
Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora Grace Aneiza Ali Down the PDF version of Liminal Spaces, which is made available free of charge by OpenBook P...
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 ...
Marvel’s Black Panther
The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Bo...
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More
Videos from the National Book Club Conference I attended the 2018 National Book Club Conference August 3rd and 4th. The conference is really like attending a family re...
The Ultimate Top 10 Books Lists, Great New Books, Black Classic Press Celebrates 40 Years, and More!
Please join us as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Black Classic Press hosted by the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. We will be celebrating a full weekend, May 18–20. O...
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work
African-American authors rarely receive national recognition for their work. There are a few, like novelists Terry McMillan and Walter Mosley, whose profiles have been...
Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver Afaa Michael Weaver (蔚雅風) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. He attended the public schools there and gradua...
Meagan Good The "Deception" Interview
Meagan Good The “Deception” Interview Meagan Good stars in NBC's midseason drama "Deception" as Joanna Padget Locasto, a San Francisco narcotics detective wit...
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...
Good Books, Films, Events & Articles – June 23, 2014 eNewsletter
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Gwen Richardson
Gwen Richardson Gwen Richardson with husband and business partner Willie Richardson Gwen Richardson is co-founder of Cushcity.com, the world’s largest Afri...
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America
This is a follow up to an article, “Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore,” which was originally published here on March 25, 2012. The article highl...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Jazz is dead! If you believe that mess, you must not listen to radio or read any of the mainstream media. However, the small army of sound warriors have pledged to keep t...
Colin Channer On His Novel, Satisfy My Soul
What is SATISFY MY SOUL saying about the American experience? That the destruction of African gods has shaped the destiny of this country because African-Americ...
Kysha N. Brown
KYSHA N. BROWN (Photo Credit: J.R. Thomason) KYSHA N. BROWN is a publisher, poet and performer. She is co-founder and president of Runagate ...
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...
Melica Niccole
Melica Niccole Melica Niccole is a native resident of Columbus, Ohio where she is a mother, author, poet, and Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. Growing up on the South...
Kwesi Oginga
Kwesi Oginga Kwesi Oginga was born and raised in Beterverwagting, Guyana. At the age of 15, he began writing short love poems, and eventually, he started writing plays. O...
Kimani Press
This Summer Sizzles With the Launch Of Kimani Romance�! Bestselling Authors Pen Sophisticated and Sexy Novels for the World's Only African-American Romance ...
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...
An Author You Should Know (Married Couples Edition)
“An Author You Should Know” is a regular feature of AALBC.com where we promote noteworthy authors on our homepage, blog (see right hand side of this page), social me...
Kalamu ya Salaam
Kalamu ya Salaam Kalamu ya Salaam is the founder of NOMMO Literary Society. NOMMO is a New Orleans-based creative writing workshop whose members are publi...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197
AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197 I hope you enjoy AALBC.com's last eNewsletter for 2012. Please take a moment to complete our short Website an...
May 2017 Newsletter: Bestselling Books, New Books, Author Info, and Much More
Our May Newsletter is Generously Sponsored by Amistad Bestselling Books Bestselling Books: March/April 2017 Provenance a novel by Donna Drew Sawyer, which tops o...
Ruth Forman
Ruth Forman Ruth Forman is the author of three award-winning books: poetry collections We Are the Young Magicians (Beacon, 1993) and Renaissance, (Beacon, 1997) and chi...
jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the ...
Russell Simmons - The "Success through Stillness" Interview - March 2014
Rap Mogul Reaps Benefits from Meditation Regimen Photo Credit David Shankbone Master entrepreneur and visionary Russell Simmons has influenced virtually all...
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...
Brian W. Smith
Brian W. Smith Brian W. Smith is an award-winning, best selling author of fifteen novels. After spending nine years in the U.S. Army, Brian earned two Bachelor’s de...
Sonia Sanchez Performs “Full Moon” Concert in NYC
New York: Poet Sonia Sanchez celebrated the release of her new CD called The Full Moon of Sonia (V.I.A. Recording Artists 2004) at The Tribeca Performing A...
William Byrd
William Byrd Dr. William “Super” Byrd is a native of Newark, N.J. where he graduated from Weequahic High School. He is the author of the Principles & Theo...
AALBC.com Workshops for Writers
Self-Publishing Workshop Saturday, December 6th 2008 - Harlem, New York Postponed until March 2009 Co-sponsored with The Writing ...
Journalists Roundtable, Oct. 6, 2015
Photos: by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks Our October roundtable changed topics quickly in response to news the previous day of the resignation of George E. Curry, ed...
Rejoice and Shout (2011) - Production Notes
About Rejoice and ShoutThe Information below provided coutesy of Magnolia Pictures [2011] The Music, The Footage and The Message The Power of God The Roots of Gospe...
Flo Anthony <em>Deadly Stuff Players</em> Interview
Florence “Flo” Anthony is a syndicated celebrity radio host, columnist. The first African-American woman to work in the sports, entertainment and the re...
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360� A Revolution of Black Poets Produced in the tradition of the Black Poetry Festivals and Conferences of the Black Arts Movement, this first Natio...
Salli Richardson-Whitfield - The "I Will Follow" Interview
Sallie Rchardson with co-stars Omari Hardwick (L) and Blair Underwood Born in Chicago on November 23, 1967, Salli Richardson-Whitfield burst onto the silver...
Clinton as Vice President Would be a Disaster for Obama
As Senator Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton and her surrogates signaled that she would like to...
Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Kelly Harris-DeBerry Kelly Harris-DeBerry is an award-winning poet and the author of Freedom Knows My Name. Known for her gift to bring poems to life by using her voice a...
Beverly Jenkins
Beverly Jenkins Beverly Jenkins is a USA TODAY bestselling author and the nation’s premier writer of African — American historical romance fiction. She speciali...
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls Eddie Mark “With compassion and superb craftsmanship, Eddie Mark invokes a world of fascinating and unforgettable characters whose tr...
Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwanda" Interview - 2011
Alrick Brown The "Kinyarwanda" Interview With an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Alrick Brown is a filmmaker and teacher who has found his calling wri...
James W. Lewis
James W. Lewis James W. Lewis is a novelist and freelance writer. James won the 2011 National Black Book Festival Best New Author award for his debut novel Sellout. He...
Jayne Cortez
Jayne Cortez Jayne Cortez — “Womanist Warrior Poet” Photo Credit: Marcia WilsonJayne Cortez (May 10, 1936 - December 28, 2012) was a poet, and performance ...
Joy Elan
Joy Elan Joy Elán is an author of six books (three poetry books, one academic book, and two fiction novels). She is from Oakland and Berkeley, CA. Born with a hear...
L. Michelle Smith
L. Michelle Smith L. Michelle Smith is an award-winning author, Fortune 100 C-Suite advisor, certified global executive and personal coach, and the CEO/founder of no silo...
Monique Clesca
Monique Clesca Monique Clesca has led two incredibly fulfilling lives. First, as an activist, she worked in the field of international development, advocating for childre...
D-Knowledge
D-Knowledge Writer/Performer Dr. Derrick Gilbert, PhD, a/k/a poet D-Knowledge, lost his battle with liver disease on Sunday morning, November 1, 2015. He was 45. Straddl...
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...
James Earl Hardy
James Earl Hardy James Earl Hardy is the author of the bestselling B-Boy Blues series, including B-Boy Blues, which has been praised as the first gay hip hop love story a...
Renee Prewitt Killingsworth
Renee Prewitt Killingsworth Renee Prewitt Killingsworth has more than fifteen years of experience as a public relations consultant and speaker. A Chicago native...
Hannibal B. Johnson
Hannibal B. Johnson Hannibal B. Johnson, a Harvard Law School graduate, is an author, attorney, and consultant specializing in diversity and inclusion issues, human relat...
Goldie the Poet
Goldie the Poet Goldie the Poet is one of those, whose abilities have been truly blessed. This Bay-Area native, whose destined path as an artist continues to ascend, i...
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage Lynn Nottage is the recipient of the 2010 Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, the inaugural Horton Foot...
Vincent Brown
Vincent Brown Vincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the aut...