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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...

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Bridget Davis - The “Pocono Film Festival” Interview

Bridget Davis - “Pocono Mountain Film Festival” Interview Bridget O. Davis grew up in Harlem, in the Drew Hamilton Projects, with her four sisters. Some of he...

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Open Book Festival

Open Book Festival The Fugard Theatre Cape Town South Africa An annual literary festival, the first of which took place in 2011....

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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...

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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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Virginia Festival of the Book

Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humaniti...

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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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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...

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Albany Book Festival

Albany Book Festival University at Albany Albany New York The Albany Book Festival, established in 2018, draws thousands of book lovers from across the Capital Region and...

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JAX Urban Book Festival

JAX Urban Book Festival James Weldon Johnson Park Jacksonville Florida The JAX Urban Book Festival (JUBF) is an annual celebration of literature and culture founded by ac...

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Greater Austin Book Festival

Greater Austin Book Festival Austin Public Library Austn Texas GAB Fest is the only tri-county book festival in Austin that focuses specifically on local small-press and ...

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Savannah Book Festival

Savannah Book Festival Telfair Square Savannah Georgia The Savannah Book Festival is an annual event, free and open to the public, in celebration of the written word and ...

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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 th...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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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...

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Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop

A CONFESSION There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people...

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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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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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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...

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Exercise Your Mind With a Good Book – July 29, 2014 eNewsletter

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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...

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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 ...

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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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Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books

Subscribe  Forward AALBC Highly Recommends A L...

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Interview with Producer Lee Daniels

  Lee Daniels enjoying himself at the Sugar Bar with fashionisto Andre' Leon Talley, Precious star Mo'Nique and owners Nick As...

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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 ...

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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...

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Sheila Johnson  “The Other City” Interview

A Heart-to-Heart with America's First Black Billionairess © Salamander Hopsitality 2010 Entrepreneur and philanthropist Sheila Crump Johnson is the onl...

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Patricia A. Saunders

Patricia A. Saunders Patricia A. Saunders was born and raised in Waterbury, Connecticut before relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area nearly 20 years ago. She recei...

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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 ...

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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...

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Migrated Interviews

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

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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...

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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...

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Bestselling Books, The Top 25 Black-Owned Sites, New Books, and More

Bestselling Books July – August 2017 Fiction titles outsold all other genres this period, led by the strength of Sadeqa Johnson’s 2016 novel Second House from the ...

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Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora

by Grace Aneiza Ali

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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Mo'Nique - The "Precious" Interview

Editor's Note: Mo'Nique Subsequently won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress! Just Give Mo'Nique the Oscar! Mo'Nique Imes was born on Decemb...

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Amma Asante - The "Belle" Interview (May 2014)

Writer/director Amma Asante made an unusual entry into filmmaking. As a child, she attended the Barbara Speake stage school in London, where she trained as a stud...

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Quentin Tarantino - The "Inglourious Basterds" Interview

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 27, 1963 to an Italian father and a mother of Irish and Cherokee extraction, Quentin Jerome Tarantino took a mos...

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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...

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The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition

by Rita Dove

The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition Rita Dove The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is ...

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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....

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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 --...

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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...

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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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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...

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Ava DuVernay The “Selma” Interview

Ava DuVernay is a writer, producer, director and distributor of independent film. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Ava was ho...

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Sean "Diddy" Combs The "A Raisin in the Sun" Interview

Born in New York on November 4, 1969, rap mogul Sean ’Diddy’ Combs is the CEO and founder of Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group, one of the preeminen...

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...

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Learn A Man Earn A Man

by Barry Fletcher

Learn A Man Earn A Man Barry Fletcher “My latest book, Learn A Man, Earn A Man is out and the response has been amazing! I want to thank all of you who I met at the Ess...

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Brandon T. Jackson - The "Tropic Thunder" Interview

  Brandon on Breakout Role in Tropic Thunder Brandon T. Jackson was born in Detroit on March 7, 1984 to preachers Bishop Wayne T. and Dr. Beverly Y...

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On Percival Everett

I think Erasure by Percival Everett is the first great manifesto for literature by African Americans in the 21st century. I believe, if the black literary/academic c...

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Door of No Return

by Neal Hall

Door of No Return Neal Hall “Absolutely amazing! I have read most of Neal Halls works; have had the privilege of commenting and critiquing many pieces as he wrote them....

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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...

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Yani

Yani Yani is an Amazon Best Selling Author of six novels hailing from the North Philly and Germantown sections of Philadelphia. She’s been in the top 20 of African Ame...

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Youth Poetry Contest Guidelines

20  02 THE ETHERIDGE KNIGHT 8TH ANNUAL YOUTH POETRY CONTEST GUIDELINES   Open to Elementary, Middle and High School Students Only Poems must be n...

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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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The Vanishing Black Male Interview

KW: Do you really think black men are vanishing and becoming extinct? Hisani DuBose (HD): With over one million African American men being incarcerated, ...

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Mo’Nique - The “Spread the Love Tour” Interview

Academy Award-Winner in the House! Mo'Nique collected a basketful of Supporting Actress accolades over the course of the awards season for her gripping port...

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Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas

Production designer Wynn Thomas started working in theatre as a teenager growing up in Philadelphia. Upon graduation from Boston University, Thomas went to New Y...

Film Review

Never Die Alone

  The following is not a review, but informational material for the movie NEVER DIE ALONE   Order Movie-Original Poster via Amazon ABO...

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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 ...

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Tamiya Davis

Tamiya Davis Tamiya Davis is a native of Virginia Beach, Virginia. A graduate of Old Dominion University, and a proud mother to her one and only son, LaTony. When she ...

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Quentin Tarantino The “Django Unchained” Interview

Quentin Tarantino The “Django Unchained” Interview   With a vibrant imagination and dedication to rich, layered storytelling, Quentin Tarantino has establi...

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Fanta Ballo

Fanta Ballo Fanta Ballo is a captivating motivational speaker, an award-winning spoken word artist, and the author of the poetry book, For All The Things I Never Got ...

Film Review

12 Years a Slave

Chiwetel Ejiofor Stars in Adaptation of Solomon Northup’s Memoir In Theaters: Oct 18, 2013 Limited November 1, 2013 Wide Rated R for violence, torture, se...

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Music Impresario Ralph Mercado Passes Away

  September 29, 1941- March 10, 2009 Music impresario Ralph Mercado passed away today, Tuesday, March 10, at 4:30 pm at Hackensack University Medic...

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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...

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Saul Williams

Saul Williams Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is hailed as “a dreadlocked dervish of words … the Bob Marley of American poets … the Poet Laureat ...

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Kevin Powell

Kevin Powell Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem as...

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Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls

by Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker

Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with black ...

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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...

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African American Writers: Portraits and Visions

by Lynda Koolish

African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish Ai   Will Alexander   Robert Allen   Maya Angelou   Amiri Baraka&...

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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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