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Kalamu ya Salaam
Kalamu ya Salaam 0000000067470753 Kalamu ya Salaam is the founder of NOMMO Literary Society and Runagate Press, leader of the WordBand, and a celebrated poet and educator. Born on March 24, 1947, he ...
Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction
Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction Kiini Ibura Salaam 9781933500966 Nonfiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Winner of the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award, Ancient, Ancient collects the short fiction by Kii...
Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam
Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam MULTIPLE Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam are influential authors. Brown excels in creating engaging narratives, while Salaam is renowned for his deep, thought-...
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam MULTIPLE Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam are celebrated authors known for their impactful works. Zoboi's books highlight diverse cultures, while Salaam's writings focus on socia...
Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander
Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander MULTIPLE Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander are renowned authors known for their impactful and compelling literary works. Kalamu ya Salaam, Kwame Alexander
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam MULTIPLE Tom Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam are influential authors known for their significant contributions to literature and culture, particularly within the Afr...
Yusef A. Salaam
Yusef A. Salaam NONE Yusef A. Salaam, a Harlem-born writer, contributes regularly to the New York Beacon and is a member of the National Writers Union. Known for his appearances on the Oprah Winfrey ...
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips MULTIPLE "Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds...
A Report by Kalamu ya Salaam on:Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference
A Report by Kalamu ya Salaam on:Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference A Report by Kalamu ya Salaam on:Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference ...
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice Yusef Salaam 9781538705001 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group This inspirational memoir serves as a call to ...
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011896 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Ka...
Yusef Salaam
Yusef Salaam NONE Dr. Yusef Abdus Salaam, part of the Exonerated Five, was wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case at 15. After years in prison, his sentence was overturned in 2002. His sto...
The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) Kalamu ya Salaam Article “…aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept.”―Larry Neal The Black Arts Movement spans the period fr...
I Am New Orleans
I Am New Orleans Robert Fleming Book Review 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 Cresce...
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings Salaam Green 9798990220874 Poetry Pulley Press Clyde Hill Publishing “The Other Revival is about restoring what history has overlooked. In a time when public memory i...
Precise Tenderness One Hundred Haiku
Precise Tenderness One Hundred Haiku Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883784266 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted u...
Punching the Air
Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam 9780062996480 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the...
Be about Beauty
Be about Beauty Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011667 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Activist, educator, filmmaker, writer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam (born Vallery...
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad Yusef A. Salaam 9781499047127 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions African Studies/Theatre/Religion/History Break-ins, vandalism, hostility between two of Elijah Muhammad’s ...
Deuce’s Wild: The Shango Mysteries
Deuce’s Wild: The Shango Mysteries Clyde W. Ford 9780738708096 Fiction Midnight Ink Llewellyn Publications John Shannon’s son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F.,...
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385404 Fiction Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Read Why Fertile Ground is Such an Important Work Fertile Ground...
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Kiini Ibura Salaam NONE Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees...
Salaam Green
Salaam Green NONE Birmingham’s first Poet Laureate Salaam Green is a celebrated storyteller, healing arts practitioner, and the 2024–2026 Birmingham Poet Laureate. She is a native of Gree...
Why Fertile Ground is an Important Work
Why Fertile Ground is an Important Work Kalamu ya Salaam Article These Are The Lyrics, Our People Are The Music WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE SPIRIT OF BLACKNESS, the spirit of doing for self...
Walkin’ Blues
Walkin’ Blues Kalamu ya Salaam 9798989919710 Fiction MBW Modern Book Works Walkin’ Blues is a meditation and speculation on the life and legend of bluesman Robert Johnson. It is a hero’s journey, larg...
Punching the Air
Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam 9780062996497 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt New York Times and USA Today bestseller • Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor • Walter Award Winner • Goodr...
Momma Jennifer and Kalamu ya Salaam on the Harlem Renaissance
Momma Jennifer and Kalamu ya Salaam on the Harlem Renaissance Author Interviews Momma Jennifer and Kalamu ya Salaam talk about the Harlem Renaissance, originally known as the Garvey Era, Recorded at t...
Freedom Knows My Name
Freedom Knows My Name Kelly Harris-DeBerry 9781883275297 Poetry Xavier Review Press Xavier Review Press Introduction by Kalamu ya Salaam “Freedom Knows My Name is electric. Kelly mixes brilliant ...
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011490 Fiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultura...
Kiini Ibura Salaam of "Ancient, Ancient"
Kiini Ibura Salaam of "Ancient, Ancient" Author Interviews Kiini Ibura Salaam (https://bit.ly/kisalaam), Author of the Short Story Collection "Ancient, Ancient" Recorded by AALBC.com July 21, 2012 at ...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 1
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 1 Kalamu ya Salaam Article “Elizabeth Nunez, the conference director and the director of the Black Writers Ins...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 2
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 2 Kalamu ya Salaam Article Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 2 of 3 “E...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 3
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 3 Kalamu ya Salaam Article Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 3 of 3 “E...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander 9780739415856 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in H...
What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883780831 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An eclectic group of poems and essays using the theme of Black culture as t...
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Alice Dunbar-Nelson 0000000081179540 Check out Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was an acclaimed American journalist, political act...
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc.
Cune Press
Cune Press Salaam Cultural Museum Cune Press
The Sights of the 360° A Revolution of Black Poets Event
The Sights of the 360° A Revolution of Black Poets Event The Sights of the 360° A Revolution of Black Poets Event 2026 Note: This is a file I never quite finished ;-) , Toni Asante Lightfoot,...
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608013029 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Situating historical inquiry al...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets edited by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander
360° A Revolution of Black Poets edited by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander Poetry & Spoken Word Learn More: https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9780739415856 Featuring five pages per poet...
We Are Bridges: A Memoir
We Are Bridges: A Memoir Cassandra Lane 9781952177927 Nonfiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press “Cassandra Lane, a former member of Nommo Literary Society, who now lives and works in Los Angele...
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam Poetry & Spoken Word Buy I Am New Orleans at: https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9781608011902
Kalamu ya Salaam on Runagate Publishing
Kalamu ya Salaam on Runagate Publishing Publishing & Craft Learn more about Runagate's Books: https://aalbc.com/authors/imprint.php?imprint=Runagate+Multimedia Recorded at the Community Book Center i...
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context, 50 Years of Poetry by Kalamu ya Salaam
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context, 50 Years of Poetry by Kalamu ya Salaam Poetry & Spoken Word Recorded, February 2021, at the Community Book Center in New Orleans, LA. Learn more about this book at: h...
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011902 Poetry University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press NOLA IsA myth. A reality.A p...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883781968 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A contextual historical examination of the civil rights move...
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding Kam Williams Book Review “In 1990, Anton McCray, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, Jr. [were] convicted and...
Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara: She could be found with the people
Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara: She could be found with the people Author Interviews Toni Cade Bambara (March 25, 1939 - December 9, 1995): https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Toni+Cade+Bam...
From Dusk to Dawn
From Dusk to Dawn Niambi Davis 9781600430367 Fiction Parker Publishing Parker Publishing Successful body products CEO, Ayo Montgomery, has her life on track. Her son is away at Annapolis, her busines...
From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385411 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Includes Poetry from 100 New Orleans Poets. An impressive overview of cul...
Word Up: Black Poetry of the 80s From The Deep South
Word Up: Black Poetry of the 80s From The Deep South Kalamu ya Salaam B000T6DTIK Poetry Beans and Brown Rice Beans and Brown Rice
The Sight of the 360 Event
The Sight of the 360 Event Loading Under Construction , Toni Asante Lightfoot, Kalamu ya Salaam, , , wadud, Tracie Morris Sharif Simmons - Jessica Care Moore Tony...
Ibi Zoboi
Ibi Zoboi NONE Haitian-born, New York-raised author Ibi Zoboi is an MFA holder from Vermont College of Fine Arts, a New York Times bestselling author, and a National Book Award finalist. She's known ...
Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags
Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags Kalamu ya Salaam Book Review Brian Gilmore is a cut above. His 30-part poem on Duke Ellington is deep and deft. Each section can stand alone, but taken as a whole ...
Ancient
Ancient Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Imagine fodder for an African-themed Twilight Zone movie or perhaps an idea for a late night movie on the Sci-Fi Channel on the Dark Continent. When reading ...
i see through eyes
i see through eyes Kalamu ya Salaam Book Review Eric Payne is not ready to publish a book a poetry’but, on the other hand, the 21st century is a new time. If a person believes they are a poet a...
Get Published Not Exploited
Get Published Not Exploited Kalamu ya Salaam Article I don’t give up my copyright to anyone. Period. I will do work for hire— in which case, the copyright is understood before hand t...
Kysha N. Brown
Kysha N. Brown Kam Williams Interview KYSHA N. BROWN (Photo Credit: J.R. Thomason) KYSHA N. BROWN is a publisher, poet and performer. She is co-founder and president of Ru...
The Sight of the 360 Event
The Sight of the 360 Event Troy Johnson Article I never did identify all the folks in the photos below (Troy's note: 1/24/2026) , Toni Asante Lightfoot, Kalamu ya Salaam, , , wad...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field Loading 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 &...
Fineland
Fineland Lauwo Lauwo 9781957810447 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press In this African diaspora coming-of-age novel, Fineland follows a Tanzanian student in small-town Finland as hope collides with ...
Runagate Multimedia
Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia kalamu or Kysha Brown 504-581-2963 Send email to: Runagate@aol.com Many thousands rise and go ma...
Runagate Multimedia
Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia kalamu or Kysha Brown 504-581-2963 Send email to: Runagate@aol.com Many thousands rise and go ma...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc. Aladdin Aladdin Paperbacks Atheneum Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Atria / 37 Ink Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Atria / One S...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field 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...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL ...
The Masjid Kamal Loves
The Masjid Kamal Loves Ashley Franklin 9781534499836 Fiction Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the author of Not Quite Snow White comes a story about ...
Abdul’s Story
Abdul’s Story Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow 9781534462984 Fiction Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A little boy who loves storytelling but struggles with writ...
Apex Magazine August 2018
Apex Magazine August 2018 Sheree Renée Thomas 9781720283362 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring o...
Mommy’s Khimar
Mommy’s Khimar Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow 9781534400597 Fiction Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A young Muslim girl spends a busy day wrapped up in her mo...
Sycorax’s Daughters
Sycorax’s Daughters Kinitra D. Brooks, Linda Addison, and Susana M. Morris 9781941958445 Fiction Cedar Grove Publishing Cedar Grove Publishing “Sycorax’s Daughters introduces us to a whole new legion ...
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems Fred Lee Hord 9780883783498 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr. Hord’s space am...
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues Kevin James Breaux and Zander Vyne 9781905091898 Nonfiction LL-Publications LL-Publications Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the D...
Spherical Woman
Spherical Woman Kysha N. Brown 9780965385428 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Kysha Brown Robinson is a vital new voice: insightful, courageous, substantive and compelling. A book for th...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America
Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America Philippe E. Wamba 9780756756451 Nonfiction Dutton/Penguin Penguin Random House When Philippe Wamba’s African American mother married his Congolese fat...
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward 9780452010963 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House This sweeping anthology celebrates the richly textured black voices of the...
From Dusk To Dawn
From Dusk To Dawn Idrissa Uqdah Book Review The opening chapter of From Dusk To Dawn by first-time novelist Niambi Brown Davis reads like your average romance novel, but this reviewer found ...
Tanzania: A Journey Within (2014) - Film Review
Tanzania: A Journey Within (2014) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Tanzania: A Journey Within In Theaters: Apr 25, 2014 Limited Unrated Running time: 103 minutes Distributor: Heretic F...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field Troy Johnson Article 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, ...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Troy Johnson Article THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 200...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Loading THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 2001 THE 10TH ANNUAL ETHERIDGE KN...
Premier Issue
Premier Issue Loading Mosaic Literary Magazine Preview Issue - Feb 1998 [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Buy Any Book ] Download a Electronic Version (PDF file) of Mosaic Literary Magazine (click...