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Spike Spike Lee 9781797203850 Nonfiction Chronicle Chroma Chronicle Books Spike Lee is a world-renowned, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a cultural icon, and one of the most prominent voices on race ...
Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century
Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century MULTIPLE Ice-T, Spike, and Douglas Century are renowned individuals known for their contributions in music, film, and literature respectively, each leaving a signifi...
Split Decision: Life Stories
Split Decision: Life Stories Ice–T, Spike, and Douglas Century 9781982148775 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir...
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration Spike Lee 9781636810133 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collecti...
Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking
Spike Lee’s Gotta Have It: Inside Guerrilla Filmmaking Spike Lee 9780671644178 Fiction Fireside Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Spike Lee wrote, directed and starred in She’s Gotta Have It, the independe...
Ice–T and Douglas Century
Ice–T and Douglas Century MULTIPLE Ice-T and Douglas Century are prolific figures in the entertainment industry. Ice-T, a Grammy-winning rapper and actor, is best known for his role on “Law & Order: ...
Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It
Spike Lee: That’s My Story and I’m Sticking to It Spike Lee 9780393328943 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A candid account of one of America’s most provocative filmmaker...
Douglas E. McIntosh
Douglas E. McIntosh NONE Douglas E. McIntosh, a New York-born writer, holds degrees in Finance and History from Pace University. With a background in banking and financial analysis, including a stint...
Earl Douglas, Jr.
Earl Douglas, Jr. MULTIPLE Earl Douglas, Jr. is a key figure in the music industry, renowned for his role with the Black Rock Coalition (BRC). As an executive director, he supports and promotes diver...
Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burford
Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burford MULTIPLE Gabrielle Douglas, an Olympic gold medalist, and Michelle Burford, a bestselling author, are a dynamic duo in the world of literature, creating inspira...
Douglas Century
Douglas Century 0000000120268336 Douglas Century is a bestselling author and investigative journalist known for works such as Under and Alone, Hunting El Chapo, and Takedown. He was a 2003 Edgar Awar...
Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir
Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir Spike Lee 9780609801918 Fiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Best Seat in the House, Spike Lee’s evocative and compelling basketball memoir, interw...
Mo’ Better Blues
Mo’ Better Blues Spike Lee 9780671725709 Fiction Fireside Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Millions have seen Spike Lee’s films - She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, and the most provocative film of 1989, D...
Spike Lee
Spike Lee 000000012321398X "Spike Lee, born March 20, 1957, is a renowned film director, producer, writer, and actor. He's known for his major studio films, and his contributions to aspiring filmmake...
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee MULTIPLE Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee are renowned figures in the entertainment industry, with significant contributions to film and literature. Their creative works ha...
Spike Lee: The Miracle at St. Anna Interview
Spike Lee: The Miracle at St. Anna Interview Kam Williams Interview Miracle of St. Spike Spike Lee is back with his first full-length feature since Inside Man (2006), the NYC cr...
Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney 0000000038213846 Douglas Kearney, a renowned poet and professor, is known for his works addressing race and history. His first book, “Fear, Some,” was published in 2006, followed by o...
Kelly Brown Douglas
Kelly Brown Douglas 0000000042477422 The Very Reverend Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas was named Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology at Union in Sep...
Douglas S. Reed
Douglas S. Reed NONE Douglas S. Reed wins the 2020 BookLife Fiction Prize Douglas S. Reed, a Brooklyn-based screenwriter/novelist, has vast experience in the motion picture industry, including working...
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem Mitchell L.H. Douglas 9781597091404 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Dou...
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson 0000000139704329 Georgia Douglas Johnson, born September 10, 1880, was an influential African-American poet, pioneering female playwright, and key participant in the Harlem Re...
Barbara C. Harris with Kelly Brown Douglas
Barbara C. Harris with Kelly Brown Douglas MULTIPLE Barbara C. Harris and Kelly Brown Douglas are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in literature. They are celebrated for the...
Tonya Lewis Lee
Tonya Lewis Lee NONE Tonya Lewis Lee is an attorney, author, and health expert, known for her work as a children's television producer with Disney and Nickelodeon. She is an award-winning author of c...
Spike Lee Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 9781934429518 Fiction AMMO Books AMMO Books Celebrating just more than 20 years since its seminal debut, Do The Right Thing remains one of the most important and...
Spike Adams
Spike Adams NONE Spike Adams is a retired Colorado judge and a proud father of three sons, having shared 35 wonderful years of marriage with his soulmate. Before ascending to the bench, Adams served...
Spike
Spike 0000000106601577 Born in Los Angeles in 1962, Spike, an original member of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate, now dedicates his time to leading outreach programs for at-risk youth. Spike, born in Los Ang...
Buck Studies
Buck Studies Douglas Kearney 9780986437373 Poetry Fence Books Fence Books "[Douglas Kearney] is at the other end of the century, using a multicultural voice inflected with the concerns of what it mean...
Mess and Mess and
Mess and Mess and Douglas Kearney 9781934819517 Poetry Noemi Press Noemi Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it’s not to fl...
Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox
Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox MULTIPLE Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in literature. Their work is highly appreciated for its depth...
Andreia Chavis-Douglas
Andreia Chavis-Douglas NONE Andreia Chavis-Douglas, a native of Washington, DC, is an artist, professor, and former graphic artist at the Washington Post. She holds degrees in Fine Arts and Education...
Gabrielle Douglas
Gabrielle Douglas NONE Gabrielle Douglas, born 1995, is a celebrated gymnast known for her historic achievements at the 2012 London Olympics. She's the first African-American and woman of color to wi...
Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen MULTIPLE Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen
Simone Douglas
Simone Douglas NONE Simone Douglas is a seasoned author with exceptional expertise in digital marketing. She has authored multiple best-selling books and offers valuable insights into the world of so...
Uplift the Race
Uplift the Race Spike Lee 9780671644185 Nonfiction Fireside Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Spike Lee rises again. This time, he and Lisa Jones document his transition from struggling independent to main...
Spike’s New Film is Bad, Kickstarter Funding is Worse
Spike’s New Film is Bad, Kickstarter Funding is Worse Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com’s movie critic, Kam Williams, is my friend. He is one of the most easy going guys I know. He has reviewed thousa...
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective Kelly Brown Douglas 9781570752421 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books Part One determines why sexuality has become a "taboo" issue for t...
The Black Christ: 25th Anniversary Edition
The Black Christ: 25th Anniversary Edition Kelly Brown Douglas 9781626983168 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books In this classic work, first published in 1994, Kelly Brown Douglas offers a compelling p...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon 9780385722704 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this groundbreaking historica...
What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls
What’s Faith Got to Do with It?: Black Bodies/Christian Souls Kelly Brown Douglas 9781570756092 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books This book was inspired by a challenge from one of Douglas’s students:...
Black Rock Volume 1
Black Rock Volume 1 Earl Douglas, Jr. 9781457995873 Nonfiction Blurb Blurb Photographer Earl Douglas has been a part of the Black Rock scene since 1988. A longtime supporter and current Executive Dire...
The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Selected Works of Georgia Douglas Johnson Georgia Douglas Johnson 9780783800387 Poetry G. K. Hall & Company Gale lxxxii/448 pp. 8vo, cloth. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris Biba Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris Biba Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America Douglas Century 9780063014954 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Bestselling author Douglas Cent...
Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States
Problem Of The Century: Racial Stratification In The United States Elijah Anderson and Douglas Massey 9780871540553 Nonfiction Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage Foundation In 1899 the great African...
She’s Gotta Have It
She’s Gotta Have It Kam Williams shes_g9.jpg Film Review Spike Lee’s First Feature Film Finally Arrives on DVD She’s Gotta Have It (1986) Click to order via Amazon Directors: ...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
Chad Sanders
Chad Sanders NONE Chad Sanders, a NYC-based writer, director, actor, and musician, previously worked at Google and YouTube. He has collaborated with Spike Lee, Morgan Freeman, and Will Packer on TV s...
Giant Steps To Change The World
Giant Steps To Change The World Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee 9780689868153 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. "On some days your dreams may seem too away far to r...
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing Kam Williams do_the8.jpg Film Review 20th Anniversary Edition of Spike Lee Classic Now Available on DVD Do the Right Thing Click to order via ...
Please, Puppy, Please
Please, Puppy, Please Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee 9780689868047 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Away from the gate, puppy puppy, please, puppy. Oh wait, puppy...
Please, Baby, Please (Board Book)
Please, Baby, Please (Board Book) Spike Lee 9781416949114 Fiction Little Simon Simon & Schuster, Inc. From moments fussy to fond, Academy Award–nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, producer Ton...
Please, Baby, Please
Please, Baby, Please Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee 9780689834578 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Go back to bed, baby please, baby, please. Not on your HEAD, ba...
Denzel Washington - "The Inside Man Interview" Interview
Denzel Washington - "The Inside Man Interview" Interview Kam Williams Interview Inside Denzel Denzel Washington The Inside Man Interview Photo from Inside Man (2006): Clive Owen, Denzel W...
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Kam Williams the-sweet-blood-of-jesus.jpg Film Review Da Sweet Blood of Jesus [2015] In Theaters: Feb 13, 2015 LimitedRating: UnratedGenre: Drama Runtime: 2 hr. 3 min.Stu...
Red Hook Summer
Red Hook Summer Kam Williams red-hook-summer.jpg Film Review Latest Spike Lee Joint Deserves to Get the Hook Red Hook Summer (2012) In Theaters: Aug 10, 2012 Limited R, 2 hr. 1 min. Drama Directed ...
When the Levees Broke
When the Levees Broke Kam Williams when_t13.jpg Film Review When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts A Film Review by Kam Williams Fair (1 star) Unrated Running time: 240 minut...
Hallelujah, Anyhow!: A Memoir
Hallelujah, Anyhow!: A Memoir Barbara C. Harris with Kelly Brown Douglas 9781640650893 Nonfiction Church Publishing Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI) A role model tells her story—and that of the na...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400337019 Nonfiction Harper Select HarperCollins “A fast-p...
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Douglas Brinkley 9780061124235 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins In the span of five violent hours on August 29, ...
To Journey Home (a short story)
To Journey Home (a short story) Douglas E. McIntosh Article COPYRIGHT DOUGLAS E. MCINTOSH Akua screamed and drew her legs inward, while at the same time, flailing wi...
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (Audiobook)
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (Audiobook) Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen 9798200940172 Poetry Blackstone Audiobooks Blackstone Publishing The intellectual and cul...
Mycroft and Sherlock
Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785659256 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is...
Madam Fate
Madam Fate Marcia Douglas 9781569471340 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Women of Jamaica with magical bonds to the worlds of Nature and spirits and to each other. Using a series of voices, Marcia Doug...
Raising the Bar
Raising the Bar Kam Williams Book Review “Gabrielle Douglas is the first African-American and first woman of color from any nation to win an Olympic gold medal in the individual gymnastics ...
Patter
Patter Douglas Kearney 9781597095808 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is ...
Raising The Bar
Raising The Bar Gabrielle Douglas 9780310740704 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins After competing in the 2012 London Olympics and winning two gold medals, Gabrielle Douglas’s life changed forever … but...
Gabby Douglas The “Raising the Bar” Interview
Gabby Douglas The “Raising the Bar” Interview Kam Williams Interview Gymnast Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas was born in Virginia Beach on December 31st, 1995. At the 2012 London Summer O...
Grace, Gold, And Glory My Leap Of Faith
Grace, Gold, And Glory My Leap Of Faith Gabrielle Douglas and Michelle Burford 9780310740612 Nonfiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle ...
Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon 0000000040628274 Doug Blackmon, a Mississippi native, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and chair of the Miller Center Forum at the University of Virginia. He's a correspondent f...
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter Kelly Brown Douglas 9781626984455 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books How do we really know that God cares when Black people are still getting kille...
Sho
Sho Douglas Kearney 9781950268153 Poetry Wave Books Wave Books Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating th...
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant
Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant Kelly Brown Douglas 9780230116818 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Blues is absolutely vital to black theological reflection and to t...
Child of Gilead
Child of Gilead Douglas S. Reed 9780947481872 Fiction The Hurricane Group The Hurricane Group Winner of the 2020 BookLife Fiction Prize “Take the road less traveled, my son. Always. No exceptions.”...
Elijah Anderson and Douglas Massey
Elijah Anderson and Douglas Massey MULTIPLE Sure, I would be glad to help. But it seems you've forgotten to provide the author's bio that you want me to summarize. Could you please provide it?
The Black Automaton
The Black Automaton Douglas Kearney 9781934200285 Poetry Fence Books Fence Books "Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ’mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ … These poems...
Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) Marcia Douglas 9781900715287 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in J...
Grace
Grace Kam Williams Book Review “Gymnastics is not my passion anymore. I want to get famous off of running track, or I want to try dancing, or become a singer. I can get a job at Chi...
Garden’s Corner: A Novel
Garden’s Corner: A Novel Douglas S. Reed 9780965727242 Fiction Kataza Books Kataza Books Book by Reed, Douglas S.
Douglas Manuel
Douglas Manuel 0000000495837910 You need to provide the author bio you want summarized.
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-From South Central to Hollywood
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-From South Central to Hollywood Ice–T and Douglas Century 9780345523297 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House He’s a hip-hop icon credited with single...
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa
African Genesis: Folk Tales and Myths of Africa Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox 9780486409115 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications An eminent German explorer, ethnologist, and authority on p...
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne 9780810141544 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Furious Flower: Seeding the ...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
James McBride
James McBride 0000000121485295 James McBride is a celebrated author and musician, known for his memoir 'The Color of Water' and his novel 'Miracle at St. Anna'. He has written for notable publication...
Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema
Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic of Cinema George Alexander 9780767911818 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A sparkling collection of interviews with African Amer...
Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style
Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style John Singleton and Veronica Chambers 9780385309141 Nonfiction Delta Delta Includes a foreword by Spike Lee, the screenplay for the film Poetic Justice (s...
Rhythm For Sale
Rhythm For Sale Grant Harper Reid 9780615678283 Fiction Dr. Grant Harper Reid Dr. Grant Harper Reid Rhythm For Sale is a Bona-Fide FIVE STAR book. This CLASSICAL/MASTER EDITION is the account of Harle...
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks 0000000115844503 Suzan-Lori Parks, born 1963, is a Pulitzer-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Notable for her work on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo P...
James Earl Hardy
James Earl Hardy 0000000042416478 James Earl Hardy is the author of the bestselling B-Boy Blues series, including B-Boy Blues, which has been praised as the first gay hip hop love story and is celeb...
Miracle at St. Anna: The Motion Picture
Miracle at St. Anna: The Motion Picture Spike Lee 9780847831708 Fiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Based on the best-selling novel and with screenplay by Jam...
M. E. Holland
M. E. Holland 0000000014470645 M.E. Holland, a Harlem-native filmmaker and writer, uses his storytelling skills to highlight Black women's experiences. Inspired by Spike Lee, he filled a gap in Holly...
The Fourth Cross
The Fourth Cross Spike Adams 9798218733711 Fiction CJ Sparrow Publication CJ Sparrow Publication Patricia Horn knows how easily a young Black life can be lost to a system where truth matters less than...
Bamboozled
Bamboozled Michael Dequina images/bamboozled.jpg Film Review Bamboozled Release Date: October 6th, 2000 (LA/NY); October 20th, 2000 (wide/moderate) MPAA Rating: R (for strong la...
Mike Tyson - Interview with AALBC.com APril 2013
Mike Tyson - Interview with AALBC.com APril 2013 Kam Williams Interview The Undisputed Champ’s Undisputed Truth Born in Brooklyn on June 30, 1966, Michael Gerard Tyson is an all-time boxing ...
Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas
Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas Booker T. Mattison Article Production designer Wynn Thomas started working in theatre as a teenager growing up in Philadelphia. Upon graduation...