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Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments D. Watkins 9780306924002 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group “This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling a...
Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins
Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins MULTIPLE Mike Africa Jr. and D. Watkins are renowned authors known for their impactful writings. Africa Jr.'s work often explores socio-political themes. Watkins is ac...
D. Watkins
D. Watkins NONE D. Watkins is a Salon columnist and University of Baltimore professor, with work published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and more. He holds a master’s in Education and an MFA i...
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America D. Watkins 9781501187834 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New Y...
The Message: A Word from the Black America You Forgot About
The Message: A Word from the Black America You Forgot About D. Watkins 9781501187827 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up return...
Lala Watkins
Lala Watkins NONE Lala Watkins, a Ringling College of Art & Design graduate, is an accomplished author and illustrator, renowned for her work on various children's books and comics. Lala Watkins is a...
Mel Watkins
Mel Watkins 0000000108515867 Mel Watkins, born in 1940, is an accomplished author and editor from Memphis. He made history as the first African-American editor at the Times Sunday Book Review. Watkin...
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This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib: An Urban Satire
This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib: An Urban Satire Quan Millz 9798736151776 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Austin Watkins, 35 and a single father, finds himself in a precarious...
Jennifer Mack-Watkins
Jennifer Mack-Watkins NONE Jennifer Mack-Watkins is a renowned printmaker, exploring power and themes such as womanhood and body image. Her acclaimed exhibit “Children of the Sun” has been highlighte...
Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins
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Linda Watkins
Linda Watkins 0000000124240963 Linda Watkins is an accomplished writer and poet, associated with several Black Writers organizations. She contributes to various platforms like AALBC.com, The Opinion ...
Amy Watkins
Amy Watkins NONE Amy Watkins, an award-winning author and physician, is known for her fictional works addressing social issues. A former Navy physician, she now practices family medicine in Virginia....
LaToya Watkins
LaToya Watkins NONE LaToya Watkins is a published author and PhD holder, known for her works in various publications. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including being a 2018 emerging...
The Watkins Book of African Folklore
The Watkins Book of African Folklore Helen Nde 9781786788962 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination, and careful research, this is the u...
Holler, Child: Stories
Holler, Child: Stories LaToya Watkins 9780593185940 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and...
Stepping Off the Porch
Stepping Off the Porch Amy Watkins 9781736296059 Fiction Amy Watkins Amy Watkins Can one mistake cost you everything? Lovey Patello is under a lot of pressure. Her parents pressure her to be the perfe...
Cute For A Black Girl
Cute For A Black Girl Amy Watkins 9781736296035 Fiction Amy Watkins Amy Watkins Though her beginnings were rough, Chloe is a beautiful, smart and talented girl with a promising future. She was adopted...
200 Letters
200 Letters Amy Watkins 9781736296011 Fiction Amy Watkins Amy Watkins 200 Letters is an inspirational romance suspense novel that follows two people as they try to escape abusive relationships. Their ...
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America D. Watkins 9781510703353 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Be...
Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry
Stepin Fetchit: The Life & Times of Lincoln Perry Mel Watkins 9781400096763 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House In the late 1920s and ’30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and ...
The Book of Chuck: A Novel
The Book of Chuck: A Novel LaToya Watkins 9780593854549 Fiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House An extraordinary new novel about family, legacy, and an inherited curse, from National Book ...
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy (Revised)
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy (Revised) Mel Watkins 9781556523519 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the...
Madness and Ruin: Politics and the Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Madness and Ruin: Politics and the Economy in the Neoconservative Age Mel Watkins 9780921284642 Nonfiction Between The Lines Productions, Inc. Between The Lines Productions, Inc. In this collection of...
Linda Watkins
Linda Watkins Kam Williams Interview Linda Watkins, a Cincinnati native transplanted to Indianapolis, is a poet and writer. Poems from her chapbook, "Let me Shake your Leav...
Angry Robot
Angry Robot Watkins Media Ltd. Datura Books
On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice
On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins 9780063318878 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The incredib...
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (paperback): A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (paperback): A Memoir of Survival and Hope Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins 9781982160609 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From iconic NBA All-Star Carmel...
Perish
Perish LaToya Watkins 9780593185919 Fiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effec...
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins 9781982160593 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Read an excusive interview with Carmelo Ant...
Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances E. W. Harper 9781374876163 Fiction Pinnacle Kensington Publishing Corp. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is...
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir D. Watkins 9781455588633 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Pea...
Secrets of a Side Bitch
Secrets of a Side Bitch Jessica N. Watkins 9781492747895 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC He‘s beautiful with gray eyes, tall, chocolate…and he‘s worth fighting for. Meet Omari—a gorgeous...
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop
Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen 9780393070989 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Under the Sword: Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You
Under the Sword: Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781780280981 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing In our fast-changing, uncertain world, it’s easy to f...
Trial and Triumph
Trial and Triumph Frances E. W. Harper 9781508847038 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Trial and Triumph is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by ...
Althea
Althea Linda Watkins 9780971513914 Fiction Black Diamond Publishing Black Diamond Publishing The story of a thin lipped, freckled face, light skinned little girl who struggles to understand what it me...
African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today
African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today Mel Watkins 9781556524318 Fiction Lawrence Hill Books Lawrence Hill Books Includes a foreward by Dick Gregory
Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir
Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir Mel Watkins 9780743245418 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A renowned editor of The New York Times movingly recounts his life, remembers a turbulent ...
Black Review
Black Review Mel Watkins 9780844600321 Nonfiction Peter Smith Pub Peter Smith Pub Inc Originally published in 1971, Black Review No. 1 was Watkin’s first published book; the literary anthology, incl...
And Then We Heard the Thunder
And Then We Heard the Thunder John Oliver Killens 9780882581156 Fiction Howard University Press Howard University Press Howard University Press Library of Contemporary Literature with Foreword by Mel ...
Johanna Sparrow
Johanna Sparrow NONE “Sometimes your tragedy is your best feature.” Antoinette M. Watkins, pen name Johanna Sparrow, is an experienced author of over 31 books ranging from children's liter...
Frances E. W. Harper
Frances E. W. Harper 0000000109120234 Read Politics and Poetics: The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was a prominent African American abolitionist, suffragist, ...
A Love of My Own
A Love of My Own Linda Watkins Book Review Welcome Back Mr. Harris. Everybody! Yes, I mean, ev-ver-ry-bo-dy gets lonely sometimes and needs a little love. That’s what author, E. Lynn Harris,...
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Linda Watkins Book Review Short story collections that are strong and rich throughout are rare finds. Most contain one or two good stories accompanied by mediocre ones....
The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads Linda Watkins Book Review Award winning author Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads is a multilayered fantasy full of various meanings, Haitian voodoo, mythology, slavery and Europe...
The Wig
The Wig Linda Watkins Book Review There were many ways to evaluate, The Wig, by author Charles Wright, so many in fact, I had a difficult time deciding on how I could should begin this review. Perh...
Through The Storm
Through The Storm Linda Watkins Book Review Coming of age is no easy feat. I think everyone still cringes at mistakes made as teenagers, which came from not listening to words of wisdom from mom and...
A Letter To My Father
A Letter To My Father Linda Watkins Book Review I had high expectations of debut autobiography, A Letter to My Father, by John W. Griffin, mainly because of my love for autobiographies and also due ...
A Mighty Love
A Mighty Love Linda Watkins Book Review Relationship novels are for escapism. The content should tantalize the reader’ evoke deep emotion and keep one’s attention. Unfortunately, A Might...
A Distant Shore
A Distant Shore Linda Watkins Book Review Caryl Phillips may have out done himself with his newest novel, A Distant Shore. It is in my opinion one of the most accomplished works I have read this ye...
Casanegra
Casanegra Linda Watkins Book Review From the moment Casanegra crossed my palms, I was curious. Not only for the content of the story within, but for the story of the trio of authors that penn...
Chaka! Through the Fire
Chaka! Through the Fire Linda Watkins Book Review The memoirs of high profile people command attention. The chance to get the dirt, learn the weaknesses and shortcomings of the famous and celebrated...
Elizabeth’s Song
Elizabeth’s Song Linda Watkins Book Review I am aware that surprises come in many forms, and in many ways. And I was glad when I discovered Elizabeth’s Song, by author, Michael Wenberg, and il...
Book Review <em>The Emperor of Ocean Park</em> by Stephen L. Carter
Book Review The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Linda Watkins Article ADD TO CART Buy the Audiobook Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List2003 BCALA Literary AwardPub...
Gangsta Lean
Gangsta Lean Linda Watkins Book Review Too Clean! Debut novel, Gangsta Lean, penned by Rochan Morgan is one of the few chronologically tight stories written by a new author this year. It is so ti...
Getting Our Breath Back
Getting Our Breath Back Linda Watkins Book Review Getting Our Breath Back, the debut novel, by author Shawne Johnson, is not your ordinary read. Passionate words float with a hypnotic, poetic rhythm ...
My Sisters’ Voices
My Sisters’ Voices Linda Watkins Book Review "And special thanks go to all those individuals who follow me in stores, call me derogatory and offensive names, and keep me from doing and achieving...
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea Linda Watkins Book Review Everyone knows that poetry is opinionated, subjective and sometimes downright confusing. I was delighted to find that the problem of comprehensi...
Dying Eyes Don’t Lie
Dying Eyes Don’t Lie Eryka Parker Book Review Set in 1981, Dying Eyes Don’t Lie by Keith Mosley is a genre-blending thriller that explores justice, community, and legacy through the eyes of two...
Where the Boys Come to Die
Where the Boys Come to Die Porscha Sterling 9781496741974 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. On New Orleans’s darkest, most seductive streets, obsession is a game two can play—but only one can...
Terminus 3
Terminus 3 Milton J. Davis 9798990512122 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia The ATLiens are back! Twenty-one speculative fiction stories from some of Metro Atlanta’s best Black Speculative Fiction authors. You’l...
Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations bell hooks 9781685890797 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s...
You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce
You Gotta Meet Mr. Pierce!: The Storied Life of Folk Artist Elijah Pierce Carmella Van Vleet and Chiquita Mullins Lee 9780593406502 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House A picture book biography abou...
No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter Devin Allen 9780306925900 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the la...
Terminus 2: Black Fantastic Tales From The ATL
Terminus 2: Black Fantastic Tales From The ATL Milton J. Davis 9798985733617 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia The ATLiens have returned with more Black Fantastic stories! Metro Atlanta’s best Black speculative...
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones 9781541600256 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books The epic history of African American women’...
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song Kevin Young 9781598536669 Poetry Library of America Library of America A Library of America AnthologyA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambiti...
Superb Vol. 1: Life After the Fallout
Superb Vol. 1: Life After the Fallout David F. Walker 9781941302408 Fiction Oni Press Oni Press After the Earth survived annihilation from an asteroid which was destroyed by a group of heroic astronau...
Minnie’s Sacrifice
Minnie’s Sacrifice Frances E. W. Harper 9781547293964 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Minnie’s Sacrifice By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More!
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More! Troy Johnson Article Terrific New Books Coming in May Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove will publish a collection of her poetry from the 30...
Lukewarm Saint
Lukewarm Saint K. L. Belvin 9780990537724 Fiction Bravin Publishing LLC Bravin Publishing LLC Lukewarm Saints takes you into the life of Kevin Watkins, a handsome Brooklyn Educator who happens to be a...
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time.
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present time. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781461186373 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LL...
Well Considered
Well Considered Richard Morris 9781450203883 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions "Well Considered is a suspenseful but deeply moving novel that gripped me throughout. I recommend it." -William Byers Ro...
The Book of American Negro Poetry
The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 9781605975306 Poetry Book Jungle Book Jungle James Weldon Johnson is the editor of The Book of American Negro Poetry. Johnson compiled this work ...
A Hire Love
A Hire Love Candice Dow 9780758219381 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In Candice Dow’s witty, romantic new novel, a woman whose young husband dies unexpectedly comes up with the perfect pla...
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298221 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press During the late 1960s ...
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Beverly Guy-Sheftall 9781565842564 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press The first major anthology to trace the development, from the ...
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960
Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960 Mary Helen Washington 9780385248426 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen...
bell hooks
bell hooks 000000011072449X “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or someone else’s ignorance.” bell hooks (Sep. 25, 1952 –...
Tumika Patrice Cain
Tumika Patrice Cain NONE Tumika Patrice Cain is an award-winning author and media personality, known for her work in women's contemporary fiction and poetry. She's a champion for indie authors, a res...
Behind those Books (press release)
Behind those Books (press release) Troy Johnson images/behindthosebooks.jpg Film Review Behind Those Books: A Thought Provoking Documentary Tackling Societal Ills Through Literature Behind Th...
Well Considered By Richard Morris
Well Considered By Richard Morris Robert Fleming Book Review Some critics have often said white authors cannot capture the soul and passion of African American characters, but that is not the case ...
Althea
Althea Kam Williams Interview Althea Click to order via Amazon by Linda Watkins ISBN: 0971513910 Format: Paperback Pub. Date: March 2003 Publisher: Black Diamond Publishing ...