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Wendy Williams - "The Wendy Williams Show" Interview
How You Doin'? Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on July 18, 1964, Wendy Joan Williams burst onto the TV landscape in July 2009 with the launch of her own nati...
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy Deborah Davis The Oprah Winfrey Show came to an end on May 25, 2011, after 25 years on television. Arguably the ...
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick Jessica George AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! - A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick - A February 2023 Ind...
AAFCA Honored MOONLIGHT as Top Film & QUEEN SUGAR as the Top TV Show
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION (AAFCA) HONORED MOONLIGHT AS THE TOP FILM OF HISTORIC 2016 & QUEEN SUGAR AWARDED AS THE T...
Ellen DeGeneres - Interview
DeGeneres (L) with NY State Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Born in Metairie, Louisiana on January 26, 1958, Ellen Lee DeGeneres attended the Univ...
Yard Show
Yard Show Janice N. Harrington Winner of the 90th Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award Finalist for the Midland Authors Award (Poetry...
The Show Must Go On: Backstage Stories of a Hip-Hop Agent
The Show Must Go On: Backstage Stories of a Hip-Hop Agent Mark Green As the owner of Celebrity Talent Agency, a venture 25 years in the making, Mark Green’s story is on...
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble Anna Myers Aamila spends every summer vacation with her grandparents. Usually, they take road trips to m...
Show Me
Show Me Sharon C. Cooper Just when he thought finding a wife was out of his reach… Colton "Cole" Eubanks is laser-focused on building wealth and settling down with a sp...
50 Best Places to Meet Other Book Lovers Online
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in April 2017 to show sites that are no longer active or have completely shut down (they are striked out) due, in part...
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...
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....
Marketing Your Book – Eight Unique Ways to Promote Your Book
Marketing Your Book - Eight Unique Ways to Promote Your Book by Desiree Day Whether you have just completed your first, third or fifth book you want to see it s...
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it’s absolute...
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...
Tim Meadows - Interview
SNL Alum Back on TV on TBS Series Tim Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan on February 5, 1961, the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, a...
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...
Steve Harvey The “Think Like a Man” Interview [April 2012]
Steve Harvey The “Think Like a Man” Interview Born in Welch, West Virginia on January 17, 1956, Steve Harvey is a media conglomerate personified whose caree...
Becoming an Great Talk Radio Guest
10 TIPS FOR BECOMING AN EXCELLENT TALK RADIO GUEST (PART 3 OF A 5-PART SERIES) by Marsha Friedman, President EMSI ...
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...
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...
Her Praise: Profile of Camille Yarbrough, a Renaissance Woman
With a career in the performing arts that has spanned a lifetime the acclaimed singer, actress, poet, activist, television producer and author, Camille Yarbrough...
Yolanda Adams: The “How Sweet the Sound” Interview
Ever since her late-Eighties debut, “Just as I Am,” Yolanda Adams has triumphantly carried the torch for contemporary gospel and inspirational music ...
Joumana Kidd - The “Let’s Talk about Pep” Interview
Jason's Ex Expounds on Life and Love Post-Divorce Born in Beirut, Lebanon on September 28, 1972, Joumana Kidd is a graduate of San Francisco State Uni...
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...
AALBC.com May 2013 eNewsletter Book Highlights
AALBC.com Best-selling Books - March to April 2013 This version of AALBC.com's eNewsletter, which focuses on book related content is designed for Amazon Kind...
Melissa Harris-Perry - The "Sister Citizen" Interview
Sister Melissa Born in Seattle, Washington on October 2, 1973, but raised in Charlottesville and Chester, Virginia, Melissa V. Harris-Perry is a professor ...
Cosby: His Life and Times
“[Bill] Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother… After dropp...
Critically Acclaimed Children’s Book Author
Many children’s authors and illustrators come from the world of education but you also worked in the field of journalism for some major publications. What made ...
Al B. Sure - “The Ultimate Merger” Interview
Al. B. Sure Enough Loves Himself Some Omarosa Albert Joseph Brown, III was born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 4, 1968 but raised in Mount Vernon, New York ...
Nyambi Nyambi The "Mike & Molly" Interview with AALBC.com's Kam Williams
Nyambi Nyambi The “Mike & Molly” Interview Versatile Shakespearean thespian and television comedy sensation Nyambi Nyambi stars on the television sitcom ...
Nyambi Nyambi The "Mike & Molly" Interview with AALBC.com's Kam Williams
Nyambi Nyambi The “Mike & Molly” Interview Versatile Shakespearean thespian and television comedy sensation Nyambi Nyambi stars on the television sitcom “Mi...
Complete List of 1,453 Titles Sold in 2006
Complete List of 1,453 Titles Sold in 2006 In 2006 AALBC.com sold 1,453 different titles via the Amazon.com affiliate program. Th...
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...
Ann Coulter The “Mugged” Interview with AALBC.com
Ann Coulter The “Mugged” Interview Born in New York City on December 9, 1961, arch-conservative Ann Coulter is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers a...
Book Lover’s Haven Feature Interview with Troy D. Johnson
AALBC.com Home Page | More About AALBC.com This interview originally appeared in Issue 6.00 of The Book Lover’s Haven dated June 10, 2000 to subscribe to th...
Soledad O Brien - The "CNN Presents: Black in America 2" Interview
Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris - ' WireImage.com Born on September 19, 1966 in Saint James, NY, Maria de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is the f...
AALBC’s Newsletter: Bestsellers, Novelist Stacey Abrams, Texas Book Festival Videos & More
Subscribe Forward Dear Troy, I recently introduced a new feature t...
2009 Book Expo America Recap
African-American Literary Industry Giants Gather in NYC Check out Related Videos Book Expo America, publishing’s premier...
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey Oprah Winfrey is a media owner, talk show host, actor, producer, and philanthropist. Her former talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, was the highest-rated tel...
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...
Notes from a Hip Hop Head
April 19, 2007 An Open Letter to Oprah Winfrey: Notes from a Hip Hop Head by Saul Williams Dear Ms. Winfrey, It is with the greatest respect a...
Yolanda Adams
Yolanda Adams Ever since her late-Eighties debut, “Just as I Am,” Yolanda Adams has triumphantly carried the torch for contemporary gospel and inspirational music ...
Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006
Egyptian/Sudanese-American writer Kola Boof is the author of seven books published in eight countries. Her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl (Door of Kush, ...
Inner City Miracle
Judge Greg Mathis makes his debut on the literary stage with his autobiography, Inner City Miracle: A Memoir. Mathis is the star of the popular The Judge Greg Mathis Sh...
Jane Addams Book Award Winner Jewell Parker Rhodes
ABOUT JEWELL PARKER RHODES Jewell Parker Rhodes is the Piper Endowed Chair and founding artistic director of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona...
Black Book Websites Need Love Too
Over the last decade there has been a great deal of lamenting over the closing of Black owned, independent brick and mortar book stores. Recently this anguish has even ...
Book Review: Is Bill Cosby Right?
Critic Foiled by “Corkscrew” Logic Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson Buy This Book Amazo...
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 ...
How To Turn Your Message or Expertise Into A Profitable Best-Selling Book 2.0
How To Turn Your Message or Expertise Into A Profitable Best-Selling Book 2.0 Wahida Clark It has once been said that the best place to hide something is by putting it in...
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...
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 ...
Iyanla's Vanzant's Book Now a #1 New York Times Best Seller
In 1998, Iyanla Vanzant was AALBC.com's first #1 best selling author. Vanzant had three titles on our 1998 Best Sellers list including our #1 best selling book for the ...
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...
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...
Book Reviewing, African-American Style
This article appeared in the September 16, 2002 edition of The Nation On April 14 [2002], my review of Maya Angelou’s A Song Flung Up to Heaven appeared in the ...
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much Cynthia Erivo In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, globally renowned performer Cy...
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick Bolu Babalola “Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers.” — New York Times Book Review “A vibrant debu...
Gloria Reuben - The "Raising the Bar" Interview
Born in Toronto on June 9, 1964, Gloria Reuben is the second youngest of a half-dozen children born to her Jamaican, gospel singing mother a...
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...
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact
This article was originally published in the April 2025 issue of the IBPA Independent magazine, the magazine for members of the Independent Book Publishers Association. ...
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...
Pros and Cons of Mainstream and Self-Publishing
There are two basic routes to getting published, mainstream and self-publishing. Mainstream is when one submits one’s work to journals/magazines and publishin...
Benilde Little on her Novels and 1st Nonfiction Book, Welcome to My Breakdown
You are known for your novels, Good Hair, The Itch, Who Does She Think She Is?, Acting Out, why nonfiction, why now?It wasn’t a conscious, creative cho...
★ 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...
Talent Showdown (That Girl Lay Lay, Chapter Book #1)
Talent Showdown (That Girl Lay Lay, Chapter Book #1) Jevon Bolden Lay Lay — the latest teen music sensation and Nickelodeon’s newest star — stars in this brand-new ...
The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3
The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 Bill Cosby In this easy-to-read chapter book by comedian and storyteller Bill Cosby, Little Bill lear...
Hell of a Book: A Novel
Hell of a Book: A Novel Jason Mott Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Wil...
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Tyson is the first...
Wanda Sykes - The "Over the Hedge" Interview
Wanda Sykes Still photographs of "Over the Hedge" The Over the Hedge Interview with Kam Williams Born on March 7, 1964 in Portsmouth, Virginia, Wanda Sykes was r...
Think Like a Bookpreneur: 19 Ways to Transform Your Book into Profitable Products & Services
Think Like a Bookpreneur: 19 Ways to Transform Your Book into Profitable Products & Services Tieshena Davis Are you an author who is confused, frustrated, and tired of te...
Alain Locke: An Introduction
ALAIN LOCKE: AN INTRODUCTION(Part 1) Alain Locke established his intellectual brilliance by a lifetime of study and teaching. This include...
Tavis Smiley - The “Been in the Storm Too Long” Interview
From his celebrated conversations with world figures, to his work to inspire the next generation of leaders, as a broadcaster, author, advocate and philanthrop...
“Would You Stop Buying Books from Amazon.com to Save the Black Book Industry?”
Exploring The Feasibility Boycotting Amazon’s Bookstore In the following video, Ruth J. Morrison, CEO and Executive Producer, What's The 411TV; and I discuss Amazon...
The Book of Night Women
I have been awaiting the arrival of The Book of Night Women by Marlon James, literally, for years. I read and loved his debut novel, John Crow’s Devil, a...
The New Brownies’ Book
In the November 1910 premier issue of The Crisis, the official journal of the NAACP, historian, scholar, civil rights activist, sociologist, and NAACP cofounder W. E. B. ...
Bestselling Books, Book Reviews, & More - May 2019 Newsletter
New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby is the magnificent follow-up to the original, celebrated anthology, updated for a new generation- an international collect...
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1
The minds of men today are stirred with eager questionings about the origin of civilization and about the part the different races of mankind played in its developm...
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 --...
New Books February 2017, Book Reviews, Events, and More
New Books Coming Out February 2017 Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too ofte...
The Pursuit of Porsha
Those people who follow television and podcasts will recognize Porsha Williams, one of the stars of the popular reality show, The Real Housewives of Atlanta, and the so...
Ruth and the Green Book
Ruth and the Green Book Calvin Alexander Ramsey About This Book Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family’s new car! In the early 1950s, few Americans could affo...
Abiola Abrams Interview with <em>BackList</em>
In her interview with BackList, she drops knowledge on classical literature, screenwriting, and why she’s definitely an O.G. Dare Click to orde...
Ann Coulter: The “Never Trust a Liberal over 3” Interview
Ann Coulter: The “Never Trust a Liberal over 3” Interview Ann Coulter is the author of nine New York Times bestsellers — Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is...
Love Is All Around: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Love Is All Around: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith This first book in the Brown Baby Parade series celebrates Black and brown babies and delivers a universa...
The World Record Book of Racist Stories
The World Record Book of Racist Stories Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar A new collection of hilarious, intergenerational anecdotes full of absurd detail about everyday exper...
APB: Artists against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology
APB: Artists against Police Brutality: A Comic Book Anthology Bill Campbell An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comic shorts, pin-ups, short essays,...
Ice Cube - The “Are We There Yet?” Interview
Chilling with Ice O'Shea Jackson was born on June 15, 1969, and adopted the cool alias "Ice Cube" before founding N.W.A. in the late 1980s. As the lyrical master...
Dealing With Writer's Block: Eight Things To Do While You're Waiting In Limbo
Having writer’s block is no laughing manner. Some writers, for example, take it very seriously—so much so that they...
Kim Taylor
African American History Matters A master quilter looks back to the past and weaves ancestral history into textile art designs. The ancient West African tradi...
Simon & Schuster Gives Racist Troll $250K Book Deal, But Boycotting Them Makes No Sense
Editor’s Note: Subsequent to the publication of the article, a video of Milo making comments condoning sex between children and adults was widely circulated. As a res...
Reaper’s Way: The Good Necromancer Book 1.5
Reaper’s Way: The Good Necromancer Book 1.5 Michael La Ronn “Merry Christmas, Kate. Why did you show up on my doorstep all of a sudden? Wait, Kate, why are you bleedi...
Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs (The Questioneers Book #5)
Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs (The Questioneers Book #5) Andrea Beaty Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs is the fifth story in author Andrea Beaty and illustrator ...
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change
Where to Begin: A Small Book about Your Power to Create Big Change Cleo Wade “Author and poet Cleo Wade will make your day with her inspiring and uplifting outlook on l...
I Am Living in 2 Homes: I Am Book #002
I Am Living in 2 Homes: I Am Book #002 Garcelle Beauvais I AM LIVING IN 2 HOMES is the second installment in the I AM book series, which shines a light on and celebrates ...
Book Review <em>The Emperor of Ocean Park</em> by Stephen L. Carter
ADD TO CART Buy the Audiobook Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List2003 BCALA Literary AwardPublication Date: May 27, 2003List Price: $14.95 F...
Newt Gingrich The “Crossfire” Interview with AALBC.com
Newt Gingrich The “Crossfire” Interview Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1943, Newt Gingrich spent 2011 and 2012 as a candidate for the Republican ...
A Report From The Field
360� A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360� was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 & 12, 1998. Event...
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards
November 11, 2015 Update: A complete list of National Book Award Honorees, of African descent, is now available. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the ...
A Special Note for Authors, Publishers, and Book Promoters
“There are some online services that specialize in books for blacks…The most successful is the African American Literature Book Club (www.aalbc.com), which was starte...