AALBC Search
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...
National Book Festival
National Book Festival Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, DC District of Columbia Mark your calendars for the 18th Library of Congress National Book Festi...
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 ...
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 ...
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 fest...
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 ...
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 peo...
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 ...
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...
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 South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference Fort Lauderdale Florida The South Florida Book Festival and Literary Conference is one of the nation’s fastes...
DSM Book Festival
DSM Book Festival Franklin Event Center Des Moines Iowa The DSM Book Festival connects people who love books with people who create them. The festival features nationally...
Bluffton Book Festival
Bluffton Book Festival Calhoun Street in Historic Old Town Bluffton Bluffton South Carolina The Bluffton Book Festival's mission is to raise money for two non-profit orga...
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...
Conyers Book Festival
Conyers Book Festival The Georgia International Horse Park Conyers Georgia The festival will feature nationally known authors, engaging workshops, and a bustling marketpl...
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...
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...
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...
Trinity River Book Festival
Trinity River Book Festival Trinity Park Pavilion No. 1 Fort Worth Texas Celebrating National Literacy Month...
Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books
Subscribe Forward AALBC Highly Recommends A L...
Unbound Book Festival
Unbound Book Festival Columbia Missouri Brings nationally and internationally recognized authors of world-class renown to Columbia, Missouri, and talk about their books,...
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...
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...
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, ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AALBC.com’s eNewsletter – October 28, 2014
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. ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Mervyn Morris
Mervyn Morris Mervyn Eustace Morris was born in 1937 in Kingston, Jamaica. Morris studied at the University College of the West Indies (UWI) and as a Rhodes Scholar at S...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
★ 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...
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...
Darlene Williams
Darlene Williams Darlene Williams is an award-winning businesswoman, adjunct lecturer, bestselling author, and nationally recognized youth and literacy advocate. She serv...
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 ...
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...
African American Children’s Book Fair
African American Children’s Book Fair Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania Check out our photos from the 2024 Festival The African American Childr...
Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology
Voice to Voice: The Girls Write Now 2015 Anthology Paperback: 299 pages Publisher: Girls Write Now (2015) (May 19, 2015) Dimensions: 3.5 x 2.4 x 0.4 inches From one...
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...
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 --...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 2001 THE 10TH ANNUAL ETHERI...
Colin Channer
Colin Channer Colin Channer is the father of two children, Makonnen and Addis. He was born in Jamaica and educated there and in New York. His published books include; the...
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 ...
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...
Nancy Churnin
Nancy Churnin Nancy Churnin is a children’s book author who writes about people that have made the world better and inspire kids to be heroes and heroines, too. She has...
Donna Drew Sawyer
Donna Drew Sawyer Before writing her novel, Provenance, Donna Drew Sawyer spent more than three decades advancing the creativity of others. First as a Madison Avenue adve...
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...
Sharon M. Draper
Sharon M. Draper Sharon M. Draper is the acclaimed author of the Sassy series. She is also the author of many books for teens, including the New York Times bestsellers Co...
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...
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...
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 ...
Kellie Magnus
Kellie Magnus Kellie Magnus is a Jamaican children’s book author. She received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and an MBA in Entertainment and Media Ma...
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...
Good Books, Films, Events & Articles – June 23, 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....
Lamar Giles
Lamar Giles Lamar “L.R.” Giles (also writes under, L.R. Giles) is an author, speaker, and founding member of We Need Diverse Books, a non-profit dedicated to changing...
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...
Colette Bancroft
Colette Bancroft Colette Bancroft has been the book editor at the Tampa Bay Times since 2007. In addition to writing reviews and interviewing authors, she directs the ann...
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...
Shane W. Evans
Shane W. Evans Shane Evans is the illustrator of many terrific picture books, including Nobody’s Gonna Turn Me Round by Doreen Rappaport, Coretta Scott King / John Step...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones Born and raised in Arkansas, Patricia Spears Jones aka Patricia Jones is [2024] the New York State Poet Laureate. She is a poet, playwright, educato...
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...
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...
The Bocas Lit Fest
The Bocas Lit Fest Port of Spain Trinidad & Tobago Boca is the Spanish word for mouth — the organ of speech and song and storytelling. And the Bocas del Drag&oacut...
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...
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...
Doreen Rappaport
Doreen Rappaport Doreen Rappaport is an award-winning author of children’s books known to educators, parents, children and young adult readers for forty-eight fiction a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Collected Poems
Collected Poems Robert Hayden Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was one of the most important African-American poets of the twentieth century. He left behind an exquisite body of...
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...
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...
AALBC.com Workshops for Writers
Self-Publishing Workshop Saturday, December 6th 2008 - Harlem, New York Postponed until March 2009 Co-sponsored with The Writing ...
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...
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...
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...