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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...

Book Review

I Am New Orleans

American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher Kalamu ya Salaam, a leading citizen of New Orleans’s 9th Ward, has always been a booster for the Crescent City. With t...

Articles

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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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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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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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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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...

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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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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...

Interview

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 ...

Authors

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...

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Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Mos Def: Amino Alkaline ' The Watermelon Syndicate rocked the dome of Carnegie Hall

On Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 8pm, presented by Festival Network in partnership with Carnegie Hall and co-produced by Jill Newman Productions...

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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...

Interview

Steve McQueen - The “12 Years a Slave” Interview

Artist and filmmaker Steven Rodney McQueen III was born in London on October 9, 1969. His critically-acclaimed directorial debut, Hunger, won the Camera d‘Or...

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360° A Revolution of Black Poets

by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander

360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in Hollywood ...

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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...

Interview

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...

Interview

Tyler Perry - The “Good Deeds” [2012] Interview with Kam Williams

Tyler Perry - The “Good Deeds” Interview Tyler Perry’s inspirational journey from the hard streets of New Orleans to the heights of Hollywood's A-l...

Book Review

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...

Authors

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...

Book Review

We Gotta Have It

’We Gotta Have It represents twenty years of seeing a new generation of Black movies. Before this journey began in 1986, with Spike Lee’s She’s Go...

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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...

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More Bios.

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...

Authors

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...

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