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Russell Atkins
Russell Atkins 0000000067797174 Russell Atkins, born in 1926, is a Cleveland-based musician, playwright, poet, and national figure in American avant garde poetry. He studied at renowned Cleveland ins...
Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master
Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master Robert Fleming Book Review This is an astounding tribute to one of the most innovative American artists, Russell Atkins, by a small, indepe...
Lady Jasmine: A Novel
Lady Jasmine: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416589174 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The beloved—and hated—Jasmine larson bush returns to battle her own past in a compelling new n...
Arisa White and Laura Atkins
Arisa White and Laura Atkins MULTIPLE Arisa White and Laura Atkins are accomplished authors and educators. White's expertise lies in poetry while Atkins specializes in children's literature. Both are...
Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper
Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper MULTIPLE Discover authors Tracey Price Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, Elizabeth Atkins, and Desiree Cooper, renowned for...
Sins of the Mother
Sins of the Mother Idrissa Uqdah Book Review KARMA???? Victoria Christopher Murray is the best selling author of several contemporary novels that touch on hot topics that church people aren...
Jasmine Guy - The “October Baby” Interview
Jasmine Guy - The “October Baby” Interview Kam Williams Interview Jasmine in Bloom Born in Boston on March 10, 1962, Jasmine Guy is a Renaissance woman with dancer, actress,...
Too Little, Too Late: A Novel
Too Little, Too Late: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416552529 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jasmine Larson Bush returns to her devious ways in this tale of two marriages — each t...
Essence Atkins: The “Are We There Yet?” Interview
Essence Atkins: The “Are We There Yet?” Interview Kam Williams Article Essence Atkins was born in New York City on February 7, 1972. Between her innate sense of comedy and girl-next-door ch...
Kathleen Atkins Wilson
Kathleen Atkins Wilson NONE Kathleen Atkins Wilson is a prolific artist with 40+ published editions, showcased in galleries nationwide and online. Her extraordinary artwork has won prestigious awards...
C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington
C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington MULTIPLE C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garc...
Elizabeth Atkins
Elizabeth Atkins NONE Elizabeth Ann Atkins, best-selling author, actress, TV host, and award-winning journalist, uses her multimedia platform to inspire others to reach their potential. An advocate f...
Scandalous
Scandalous Victoria Christopher Murray 9781939481016 Fiction Liza Dawson Associates Liza Dawson Associates Before she was a minister’s wife, she was Jasmine Cox, the most prized dancer at Foxtails. Ne...
Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy 0000000114437228 Jasmine Guy knew Afeni Shakur for nearly a decade, having met her via Afeni's son, Tupac. A multitalented performer, Guy began her career as a dancer for the Alvin Ailey...
Baby Momma Drama
Baby Momma Drama Thumper Book Review Carl Weber’s new book is loaded with the type of drama I love, — unfiltered, full strength, wig snatching, "yo-momma’s-a-ho!" drama. ...
Temptation: The Aftermath
Temptation: The Aftermath Victoria Christopher Murray 9781944359591 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books The best of friends…. Since they were five years old, Jasmine Cox Larson Bush and Kyla B...
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542087 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful collection of ...
Sonya Atkins
Sonya Atkins NONE Sonya Atkins: "I am a twenty-five-year-old English instructor at Northeast Louisiana University. However, I received my undergraduate and graduate degrees from Grambling State...
Marcus Dewan Williams
Marcus Dewan Williams NONE Marcus Dewan Williams, more than just the owner of Nubian Books bookstore, is an active advocate for African and African-American culture and education. As a publisher and ...
Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington
Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington MULTIPLE Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to literature and music studies. Farah Ja...
Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master
Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master Kevin Prufer 9780964145443 Nonfiction Pleiades Press University of Central Missouri Poetry. African American Studies. Literary History & Critic...
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780761339434 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had a...
Sins Of The Mother: A Novel
Sins Of The Mother: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416589181 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Have the sins of the mother come upon the daughter?Jasmine Larson Bush is finally living...
The Black Divorce, a Novel
The Black Divorce, a Novel Moody Holiday 9780974631554 Fiction Pretty Paper Press Pretty Paper Press Meet Jasmine, a bride to be in the arms of another man as the church bells toll for her demise. Whi...
A Blessing & A Curse
A Blessing & A Curse ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476748887 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rach...
Fortune & Fame
Fortune & Fame ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476747170 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Church first ladies Jasmine Cox, Larson Bush, and Rachel Jackson Adams ...
Jasmine Mans
Jasmine Mans NONE Jasmine Mans, a Black American poet and artist from Newark, NJ, is a University of Wisconsin Madison graduate. Author of the 2012 poetry collection, Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels, a...
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Farah Jasmine Griffin 0000000045480467 Farah Jasmine Griffin is a Columbia University professor specializing in English, Comparative Literature, and African American Studies. She has a BA from Harvar...
Jasmine Guillory
Jasmine Guillory 0000000510956804 Jasmine Guillory, a New York Times bestselling author known for novels like 'The Wedding Date' and 'The Proposal.' Her work has been featured in major publications a...
Jasmine Brown
Jasmine Brown NONE Jasmine Brown, a 2023 medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, is an M.Phil graduate from Oxford University and founder of the Minority Association of Rising Scientists, ...
Jasmine L. Harris
Jasmine L. Harris NONE Dr. Jasmine L. Harris is an associate professor at the University of Texas, San Antonio, specializing in African American Studies. Her research focuses on the experiences of Bl...
Tamara Shiloh
Tamara Shiloh NONE Tamara Shiloh, a Northern California native, owns the Multicultural Bookstore and Gifts in Richmond. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother residing in Point Richmond,...
Butterfly 4
Butterfly 4 Ashley Antoinette 9781735517124 Fiction Ashley Antoinette Ashley Antoinette Morgan Atkins has depended on men her entire life. First her father, then Ethic Okafor, then came Messiah Willia...
Butterfly
Butterfly Ashley Antoinette 9781250136367 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Butterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette and...
Biddy Mason Speaks Up
Biddy Mason Speaks Up Arisa White and Laura Atkins 9781597144032 Nonfiction Heyday Heyday Building on the brilliance of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the newest installment in the Fighting for Justice ser...
How Divorce Became My Deliverance
How Divorce Became My Deliverance C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington 9780692957868 Nonfiction...
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542070 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Other People’s Skin, T...
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note (posted May 8th 2014): Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted Sign the petition to help save the sto...
Cougars: A Novel
Cougars: A Novel Earl Sewell 9781593092696 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now in mass market paperback—a forty-something woman, who only dates younger men, mixes romance with her pharmac...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Char Adams 9780593474235 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is...
Room Service (The Innkeepers)
Room Service (The Innkeepers) Rochelle Alers 9781496707345 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different w...
On The Come Up
On The Come Up Travis Hunter 9780758242525 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Growing up in the heart of the Atlanta ghetto, siblings DeMarco and Jasmine Winslow have developed a talent for su...
Splitsville: The Lip Gloss Chronicles
Splitsville: The Lip Gloss Chronicles Shelia M. Goss 9781601621887 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance The Divas are back! Jasmine, Brittney, and Sierra are tighter than ever now that two of t...
Jasmine Walls
Jasmine Walls NONE Jasmine Walls is a writer, artist, and editor with former lives in professional baking and teaching martial arts. She still bakes (though she’s pretty rusty at martial arts) and h...
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage MULTIPLE Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage are renowned authors with significant contribut...
Nia Damali
Nia Damali NONE Nia Damali, owner of Medu Bookstore and a prominent figure in the Black Book Ecosystem, is dedicated to promoting literacy and knowledge within the Black community. Editor of historic...
The Confession: A Thug’s Valentine
The Confession: A Thug’s Valentine Wahida Clark 9781970854107 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC He came back for love. He stayed for war. Faheem Mujahid thought he had ...
Nubian Bookstore
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Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9798218185251 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578863894 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Girls is packed ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578785509 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore The Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Boys. Written...
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578689487 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents the ABC Book is a children’s picture book that teaches...
The Key Bookstore
The Key Bookstore Hartford CT The Key Bookstore is a fully interactive bookstore experience. The Key engages readers through curation, activities, subscriptions, events, events, and community engageme...
Liberation Station Bookstore
Liberation Station Bookstore Raleigh NC Liberation Station Bookstore is reopening August 24th, 2025 by Liberation Station Bookstore, Organizer We’re 52% Funded—And the Work Continues...
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Katie Mitchell 9780593581346 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country alon...
Victoria Scott-Miller
Victoria Scott-Miller NONE Victoria Scott-Miller is an acclaimed entrepreneur, author, and owner of North Carolina's first black-owned children's bookstore. She's notable for creating 'The Museum Liv...
Christina Benton
Christina Benton NONE Christina Benton is a Las Vegas-based crime author, forensic anthropologist, and bookstore owner. She penned the debut novel featuring Noel Patterson, a forensic anthropologist ...
Sinners & Saints
Sinners & Saints ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451608151 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists ...
It’s Only Dancing
It’s Only Dancing Jasmine Guillory 9781338749434 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory makes her highly anticipated young adult debut with a Dirty...
Husbands, Incorporated, Book One in the Husbands, Inc. Trilogy (Book One)
Husbands, Incorporated, Book One in the Husbands, Inc. Trilogy (Book One) Elizabeth Atkins 9780982141526 Fiction Sea Kingdom International Sea Kingdom International Husbands, Incorporated - Book One i...
The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins
The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780593491102 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From an acclaimed scholar and longtime friend of Toni Morrison, an intimate an...
Flirting Lessons
Flirting Lessons Jasmine Guillory 9780593100912 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A captivating and sizzling new queer romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Avery ...
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education
Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education Jasmine L. Harris 9781506489834 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Black Women, Ivory Tower is a first-of-its-k...
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...
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century
Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century Jasmine Brown 9780807025086 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Black women physician...
Drunk on Love
Drunk on Love Jasmine Guillory 9780593100875 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An intoxicating and sparkling new romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory. Margot Noble...
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780393651904 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Farah Jasmine Griffin has...
While We Were Dating
While We Were Dating Jasmine Guillory 9780593100844 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An instant New York Times bestseller! One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Reads of 2021! Two people rea...
Black Girl, Call Home
Black Girl, Call Home Jasmine Mans 9780593197141 Poetry Berkley Books Penguin Random House From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer i...
Watch Us Rise
Watch Us Rise Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan 9781547600083 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing "This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim ...
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists And Progressive Politics During World War Ii
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists And Progressive Politics During World War Ii Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780465018758 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books As World War II raged overseas, Harlem witn...
Friends & Foes
Friends & Foes ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451608168 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. IT’S “A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!”* when the bestselling authors of Sinn...
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington 9780312327859 Nonfiction Thomas Dunne Books Macmillan Pub...
Getting Even (Good Girlz)
Getting Even (Good Girlz) ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9781416558736 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The fourth book in The Good Girlz series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tat...
Blessings in Disguise (Good Girlz)
Blessings in Disguise (Good Girlz) ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9781416525615 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The second book in an exciting and inspiring new series from national bestsel...
A Sin and a Shame: A Novel
A Sin and a Shame: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9780743287371 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend’s marriage fails, ...
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary
Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary Jasmine Guy 9780743470544 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Afeni Shakur, one of the most visible figures in both the hip-hop and civil rights mo...
Baby Momma Drama
Baby Momma Drama Carl Weber 9781575669083 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Two very different women are about to learn that when it comes to sorting out life and love, no sister is perfe...
If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday
If You Can’t Be Free, Be A Mystery: In Search Of Billie Holiday Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780345449733 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House More than four decades after her death, Billie ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarth...
Tampa Bay Noir
Tampa Bay Noir Colette Bancroft 9781617758102 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “For too long readers have connected Florida Noir with the admittedly fascinating locales of Miami-Dade County, thanks...
God’s Answer is Know: Lessons from a Spiritual Life
God’s Answer is Know: Lessons from a Spiritual Life Elizabeth Atkins 9781945875441 Nonfiction Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Overcoming conflicts with food, fat,...
Powerjournal Workbook #2: A 28-Day Challenge for Weight Loss
Powerjournal Workbook #2: A 28-Day Challenge for Weight Loss Elizabeth Atkins 9781945875564 Nonfiction Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Two Sisters Writing and Publishing The 28-Day PowerJournal for...
Powerjournal Workbook #1: A 28-Day Challenge
Powerjournal Workbook #1: A 28-Day Challenge Elizabeth Atkins 9781945875489 Nonfiction Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Are you living your most authentic life? Or...
Dark Secret
Dark Secret Elizabeth Atkins 9781945875069 Nonfiction Two Sisters Writing and Publishing Two Sisters Writing and Publishing RACE, SEX & SECRETSSPARK DEADLY DRAMATwo beautiful sisters spark a scandal o...
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi 9781597143684 Nonfiction Heyday Heyday Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends—jus...
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later Russell Atkins 9781681210292 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures The Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the mid to late ...
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland Russell Atkins 9781681210315 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures This is the very first anthology by the Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2 Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578856490 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Volume 2 was created ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578825359 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own was created to help children envisio...
Hugh Mulzac
Hugh Mulzac 0000000399996487 Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac (1886-1971), the first African American ship commander, served on British and American ships during WWI. A graduate of Swansea Nautical College, he ...
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America Troy Johnson Article This is a follow up to an article, “Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Book...
La Casa Azul Bookstore "An Independent Bookstore Bucking the Trend"
La Casa Azul Bookstore "An Independent Bookstore Bucking the Trend" Book Spotlights
Hakim’s Bookstore and Gift Shop
Hakim’s Bookstore and Gift Shop Philadelphia PA Hakim’s Bookstore & Gift Shop is the oldest African American Bookstore in Philadelphia.