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Bing Site Search is a Great Alternative, to Google Site Search, for a Website’s Search Engine
Bing Site Search is a Great Alternative, to Google Site Search, for a Website’s Search Engine Troy Johnson Article If you are reading this article, which has nothing to do with the primary focus of ...
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...
Bing, Bop, Bam: Time to Jam!
Bing, Bop, Bam: Time to Jam! Valerie Bolling 9781419756313 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams A joyful, rhyming celebration of music and community, Bing, Bop, Bam: Time to Jam! is an upbeat...
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part II)
A Great Tip and Advice for Creating a Blog or Website (Part II) Troy Johnson Article (Continued from Part I) The following Plugins are the ones I've kept so far: WP-FB-AutoConnect (Version 1.5...
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...
Share Info from Indie Black Owned Websites
Share Info from Indie Black Owned Websites Troy Johnson Article Add Huria Search Resources to Your Website or Blog Huria Search was created in reaction to the current trend in search results that f...
Carmella Van Vleet
Carmella Van Vleet NONE Carmella Van Vleet, a former teacher turned full-time author, has penned over a dozen books including the award-winning Eliza Bing Is (Not) A Big, Fat Quitter. She co-authored...
So Amazing! Black Culture Word Search
So Amazing! Black Culture Word Search Denise Rochelle Myhand and Jamah Myhand 9798755973458 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published So Amazing! The So Amazing Black Culture Word Search...
Please Please Please
Please Please Please Renee Swindle 9780440223764 Fiction Dell Publishing Penguin Random House Babysister gets what Babysister wants. Always has. Always will. After all, she’s been spoiled rotten ever ...
Renee Swindle
Renee Swindle NONE Renee Swindle, a California native and author of several novels, is known for her bestseller 'Please Please Please'. A University of California English graduate, she also holds an ...
Algorithms Of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Algorithms Of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Safiya Umoja Noble 9781479837243 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Algorithms Of Oppression is a revealing lo...
Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I’m Entitled to the C-Suite
Yes Please! 7 Ways to Say I’m Entitled to the C-Suite L. Michelle Smith 9781088145180 Nonfiction No Silos Communications No Silos Communications Yes Please! is a leadership development tool that is gr...
Please (First Book)
Please (First Book) Jericho Brown 9781930974791 Poetry New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose Winner of the American Book Award (2009)Please explores the points in our lives at which love...
Serious Problems With Facebook Promotion
Serious Problems With Facebook Promotion Troy Johnson Article Writers, if you are using Facebook to promote your work—especially paid promotion— invest 30 minutes of your time to watch these two vide...
Failure Is Fuel
Failure Is Fuel Deya Smith 9781514223314 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC You Deserve to Be Happy & Live Fully! Failure is Fuel! The first of a mini book series by Deya “Direct” Smith t...
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure Kam Williams Book Review "If they’re being honest, most people who have ever succeeded in any human endeavor will tell you they learn...
The Rise: Creativity, The Gift Of Failure, And The Search For Mastery
The Rise: Creativity, The Gift Of Failure, And The Search For Mastery Sarah Lewis 9781451629231 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. It is one of the enduring enigmas of the human experi...
Huria Search - Search the Global Black Community
Huria Search - Search the Global Black Community Troy Johnson Article Editors Note: As of March 2016, after a 5 year run, Huria Search's run as a standalone site has ended. The Search engine and the...
2 Ways Google is Killing Online Booksellers & How You Can Help
2 Ways Google is Killing Online Booksellers & How You Can Help Troy Johnson Article (1) Google Uses its Dominance in Search to Hijack Traffic from Websites Google does this by placing content, it ha...
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed Jason L. Riley 9781594037252 Nonfiction Encounter Books Encounter Books Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the...
Algorithms Of Oppression (Hardcover)
Algorithms Of Oppression (Hardcover) Safiya Umoja Noble 9781479849949 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Algorithms Of Oppression is a revealing look at how negative biases...
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...
Please Tell Me If The Grass Is Greener
Please Tell Me If The Grass Is Greener Joylynn M. Jossel 9780970672605 Fiction End of the Rainbow Projects End of the Rainbow Projects PLEASE TELL ME IF THE GRASS IS GREENER is the dominant work of wr...
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It Juan Williams 9780307338235 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House H...
Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing, Little Rock, AR
Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing, Little Rock, AR Book Spotlights
Bestselling Books, Book Reviews, & More - May 2019 Newsletter
Bestselling Books, Book Reviews, & More - May 2019 Newsletter Troy Johnson Article New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby is the magnificent follow-up to the original, celebrated anthology, u...
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry 9780385500869 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Countless black women would rather attend church naked t...
Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing
Pyramid Art, Books & Custom Framing Little Rock AR Established in 1988 as the Pyramid Gallery was born from a passion for and appreciation of Black Art and culture. The business has brought enrichmen...
MarZé Scott
MarZé Scott NONE MarZé Scott, born in Nashville and raised in Michigan, is a University of Michigan graduate and former elementary teacher. Known for her early love for reading and writing, she crea...
Successful Failure: Lessons Learned Flat on My Face
Successful Failure: Lessons Learned Flat on My Face Kevin Fredericks 9780593735671 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House Being successful is no laughing matter…unless the road there is litt...
Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives
Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9780367159863 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge This book traces the root cause of the White House’s failure to pr...
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure Tavis Smiley 9781401933913 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House This timeless quote by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett has served as an inspir...
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Harold Cruse 9781590171356 Nonfiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books Published in 1967, as the early...
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...
NetNation's Archive Search Engine
NetNation's Archive Search Engine Troy Johnson Article Use the form below to search through the files. Text to Search For: Boolean: AND OR Case Insensitive Sensitive ...
Search Form
Search Form Troy Johnson Article Search the Web HotWired's Website Webmonkey The Netnation Site ...
Self-Value: The Story of Me
Self-Value: The Story of Me Brandon Williams 9781790553693 Nonfiction Kindle Direct Publishing Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Limited-Time Promotional Price!Please review and rate my story on Amazon! ...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir Margo Jefferson 9781524748173 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yo...
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout 9780547386379 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. ...
Google‘s Adverse Impact on the World Wide Web
Google‘s Adverse Impact on the World Wide Web Troy Johnson Article (Note: On Sunday May 20, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a segment on the power of Google, validating much of what I’ve written below) Goo...
Ducks in a Row??? Please.: How to find the courage to finally QUIT your soul-draining, life-sapping, energy-depleting, freedom-robbing job … after! (In Search of a Better Belief System)
Ducks in a Row??? Please.: How to find the courage to finally QUIT your soul-draining, life-sapping, energy-depleting, freedom-robbing job … after! (In Search of a Better Belief System) Walt Goodridge...
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original) Nikki Turner 9780345493873 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a...
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper 9780743266253 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her...
My Protest: Please Don’t Erase Our History!
My Protest: Please Don’t Erase Our History! Linda Gaston-Bessellieu 9798218254889 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Jaliyah’s favorite topic is black history. She was excited to ...
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?
Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers? Junauda Petrus 9780593462331 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Based on the viral poem by Coretta Scott King hon...
Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays Phoebe Robinson 9780593184905 Fiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House With sharp, timely insight, pitch-perfect pop culture refer...
Please Don’t Yell At We
Please Don’t Yell At We Sabrina Carter 9780979591808 Fiction Baby Ellington, LLC Baby Ellington, LLC Please Don t Yell at We is a fun story that brings to life the innocence in everything little child...
GhettoPhysics
GhettoPhysics Kam Williams images/ghettophysics.jpg Film Review Radical Fringe Flick Breaks World Down to Pimp and Hos GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up! Rated R for...
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, ...
Happy Wives Club: One Woman’s Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage
Happy Wives Club: One Woman’s Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage Fawn Weaver 9781400205042 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing A New York Times Bestseller!One wo...
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families
Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families Judith Giesberg 9781982174323 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Drawing from an archive of nearl...
girls in search of cover
girls in search of cover Pamela Mariva Mshana 9798985862300 Fiction Seven Visions Entertainment & Consulting Seven Visions Entertainment & Consulting Girls in Search of Cover— Part 1 is the first book...
Google Worsens Web Experience by Retuning Poor Search Results
Google Worsens Web Experience by Retuning Poor Search Results Troy Johnson Article Please read the notes at the end of the article for important updates to this Blog post (the last note added Februar...
The Best Black Book Search Engine Period!
The Best Black Book Search Engine Period! Troy Johnson Article http://thebestblackbooksearch.com Ok, despite the pretentious descriptor this is really a good way to query and learn about web sites th...
Michael R. French
Michael R. French NONE Michael R. French, a Stanford English graduate and Northwestern Journalism master's holder, is an acclaimed author of over 20 books and award-winning screenplays. A former US A...
What Happened
What Happened Kam Williams Book Review How did we screw up so badly? The problem wasn't lack of information. The potential seriousness of the storm had b...
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2)
Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2) bell hooks 9780060938291 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of ...
Burn the Blueprint: Reject the Lies, Embrace the In-Between, and Begin Again
Burn the Blueprint: Reject the Lies, Embrace the In-Between, and Begin Again Carlos Whittaker 9781400246472 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Speaker, content creator, and be...
The Heirs
The Heirs Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 9781250326997 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers Special Stained-Edge Edition Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller! From the award-winning New Y...
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation Kris Manjapra 9781982123499 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. If the 1619 Project illuminated the...
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780525575320 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the...
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian Howard Zinn 9781608463039 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books In this lively collection of essays, Zinn discusses a wide range of histori...
Step Out On Nothing: How Faith And Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges
Step Out On Nothing: How Faith And Family Helped Me Conquer Life’s Challenges Byron Pitts 9780312577667 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera st...
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
The Working Poor: Invisible in America David K. Shipler 9780375708213 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intim...
50 Years after Brown: The State of Black Equality in America
50 Years after Brown: The State of Black Equality in America Kam Williams Book Review "The state of black equality in America 50 years after Brown reflects the historical recalcitrance o...
The Rise: Creativity
The Rise: Creativity Kam Williams Book Review “This book is about the advantages that come from the improbable ground of creative endeavor. Brilliant inventions and human feats that have co...
HarperCollins
HarperCollins News Corp Amistad Amistad Books for Young Readers Anthony Bourdain/Ecco Artisan Avon A Avon Books Avon Books (Mm) Avon Books (P) Avon Red Balzer & Bray/Harperteen Balzer + Bray Blink You...
Blood at the Root (paperback)
Blood at the Root (paperback) LaDarrion Williams 9780593711934 Fiction Labyrinth Road Penguin Random House INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
Interview with Bakari Kitwana
Interview with Bakari Kitwana Kam Williams Interview Bakari Kitwana Bakari Kitwana has been the Executive Editor of The Source, the Editorial Director at 3rd World Press, and a music rev...
Tupac Play
Tupac Play Troy Johnson Article Web aalbc.com thumperscorner.com
Are Reading Rates Declining in the African American Community?
Are Reading Rates Declining in the African American Community? Troy Johnson Article Frequent AALBC.com visitors may already know I consider search results biased toward large corporate sites t...
girls in search of cover (part 2)
girls in search of cover (part 2) Pamela Mariva Mshana 9798985862324 Fiction Seven Visions Entertainment & Consulting Seven Visions Entertainment & Consulting irls in search of cover: Part 2 is the se...
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780393355772 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings tog...
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene 9780820360089 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press ...
Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors
Finding Otho: The Search for Our Enslaved Williams Ancestors Kathy Lynne Marshall 9780999201411 Nonfiction Kanika African Sculptures Kanika African Sculptures Until she was 19 years old, Kathy Lynne M...
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9781510720701 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Unlike most white American...
My Voice: A Memoir
My Voice: A Memoir Angie Martinez 9781101990339 Nonfiction Celebra Penguin Random House Angie Martinez is the “Voice of New York.” Now, for the first time, she candidly recounts the story of her rise ...
What is Wrong with Goodreads and Wikipedia?
What is Wrong with Goodreads and Wikipedia? Troy Johnson Article ...and why are they promoting Zane’s tax liability rather than her literary accomplishments? “The Web is critical not merely to the d...
Words Cross & Across: Word Search On Barack Obama
Words Cross & Across: Word Search On Barack Obama Eugene Williams, Sr. 9780615262925 Nonfiction Academic Resources Unlimited Academic Resources Unlimited Words, Cross & Across: Word Search on Barack O...
AALBC.com eNewsletter March 28th 2006
AALBC.com eNewsletter March 28th 2006 Troy Johnson Article The Following is an excerpt of AALBC.com's March 28th eNewsletter:MAKING THE BEST OF AALBC.comTip #1 — Use the Google Search EngineAALBC.com...
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) John Hope Franklin 9780195160871 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The mat...
In Search of Satisfaction
In Search of Satisfaction J. California Cooper 9780385467865 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Ne...
In Search of Nella Larsen
In Search of Nella Larsen Thumper Book Review I’m back! It’s good to be back, although I have to tell you that it took me a minute to find groove, before I was able to fall int...
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery Heather Andrea Williams 9780807835548 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press...
Please, Louise
Please, Louise Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983392 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197
AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197 Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com eNewsletter – December 31st 2012 – Issue #197 I hope you enjoy AALBC.com's last eNewsletter for 2012. Please ta...
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project Troy Johnson Article The Literary Freedom Project (LFP) and Mosaic magazine are fighting to keep immersive reading, literary arts, expository writing...
21st Century Slavery - My Reaction
21st Century Slavery - My Reaction Troy Johnson Article Generally when I get spam, whether it come from friends, family or a stranger, I usually just delete it. I get a lot of email. Most of it is ...
Novel Writing Workshops
Novel Writing Workshops Troy Johnson Article Novel Writing Workshop AALBC.com's Novel Writing Workshop (8 Sessions Online) Enjoy a writing workshop from the convenience of your own home! Get ...
Mary J. Blige “The Help” Interview [August 2011]
Mary J. Blige “The Help” Interview [August 2011] Kam Williams Interview Read a statement to the fans of The Help from the Association of Black Women Historians Mary J. Blige "The Help" Interview ...
The Disgruntled Wives Club
The Disgruntled Wives Club Portia Cosby 9780982301326 Fiction Distinct Publishing Distinct Publishing "I agreed to ’for better or for worse,’ but I need more "better" and some of that cherishing we sp...
Hustle Hard
Hustle Hard Saundra 9781496711991 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Three friends who escaped the streets. Now they’re cashing in on a brilliant hustle and living their million-dollar dreams....
Heather Covington
Heather Covington NONE Heather Covington, founder and CEO of Disilgold, is a versatile writer and passionate poet inspired by Langston Hughes. Residing in the Bronx, she serves the Disilgold Literary...
Lisa M. Bennett
Lisa M. Bennett NONE Lisa M. Bennett, former executive and current author, coach, and YouTube personality, uses her expertise to empower individuals through Fearless Coaching LLC and C-Crets, a caree...
all about love: New Visions
all about love: New Visions bell hooks 9780060959470 Nonfiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume i...
Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers
Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers Valorie Burton 9780736980272 Nonfiction Harvest House Publishers Harvest House Publishers If You Could Not Fail, What Would Yo...
The Work: My Search For A Life That Matters
The Work: My Search For A Life That Matters Wes Moore 9780812993578 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a m...