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The Amazing Spider-Man

by Kam Williams

The Amazing Spider-Man Kam Williams images/spiderman-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Andrew Garfield Stars in Reboot of Marvel Comics Franchise The Amazing Spider-Man In Theaters: Jul 3, 2012 Wide ...

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The Empire in Africa

by Kam Williams

The Empire in Africa Kam Williams the_em41.jpg Film Review Disturbing Documentary Graphically Chronicles Sierra Leone’s Civil War   The Empire in Africa Unrated In French, English and l...

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Low Road

by Thumper

Low Road Thumper Book Review Donald Goines has become, decades after his death, one of the most influential African American authors in the African-American literary canon. The realism, the violenc...

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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

by Kam Williams

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America Kam Williams Book Review "We [African-Americans] are a race that never before existed: a cobbled together admixture of Africa, Europe, and...

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HIV/AIDS: The Facts and The Fiction

by Kam Williams

HIV/AIDS: The Facts and The Fiction Kam Williams Book Review “Unfortunately, a series of interlocking misconceptions have distorted scientific and public perceptions of HIV and the AIDS epide...

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Pawned Sovereignty

by Kam Williams

Pawned Sovereignty Kam Williams Book Review ’The character of America as a nation is very different from the image it projects to the world. Though its image seems like a beacon of peace and j...

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Seed

by Thumper

Seed Thumper Book Review ’"The measure of a man", my father once said, "is in his scars. Without a scar he isn’t even a man. He is, merely, male."’ ―from...

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Something Torn and New

by Kam Williams

Something Torn and New Kam Williams Book Review ’Linguicide is the linguistic equivalent of genocide. Genocide involves conscious acts of physical massacre; linguicide, conscious ac...

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Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat

by Julianne Malveaux

Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat Julianne Malveaux Book Review I don’t often write about comedians, but the recent passing of my friend Dick Gregory reminded me of the very important role t...

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John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism

by Thumper

John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism Thumper Book Review I was looking forward to reading Keith Gilyard’s biography, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. J...

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The Lace Wig Bible: How to Style

by Kam Williams

The Lace Wig Bible: How to Style Kam Williams Book Review “You cannot be a top hair stylist today without working with some types of wigs or hair extensions… I have been blessed to hav...

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Who Would Have Thunk It! The First Adventures of the Fraser Foster Kids

by Kam Williams

Who Would Have Thunk It! The First Adventures of the Fraser Foster Kids Kam Williams Book Review “Our story began a very long time ago when we were little kids with no place to live. Our moth...

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We Gotta Have It

by Kam Williams

We Gotta Have It Kam Williams Book Review ’We Gotta Have It represents twenty years of seeing a new generation of Black movies. Before this journey began in 1986, with Spike Lee’s She...

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Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope

by Kam Williams

Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope Kam Williams Book Review ’I will never forget the unabashed affection the president-elect displayed [Election Night] as, with the whole worl...

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Looking for Sweet Love

by Emanuel Carpenter

Looking for Sweet Love Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Can a sista get some love? That’s the question addressed in R.L. Byrd’s new book "Looking for Sweet Love." The story takes place in...

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

by Connie Bradley

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Connie Bradley Book Review I finally finished the 620-page The Warmth of Other Suns by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Isabel W...

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Color Me Butterfly

by Idrissa Uqdah

Color Me Butterfly Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Domestic Abuse: A Generational Curse?This book spans a 60 year period in the lives of a family of strong African American women who survived domestic a...

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God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens

by Kam Williams

God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens Kam Williams Book Review “I was raised in poverty, surrounded by drug dealers, gangs and community violence. My mother was addicted to crack cocai...

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Adam by Adam

by Thumper

Adam by Adam Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. to a young Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. If I were...

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Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison

by Thumper

Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Thumper Book Review It is safe to say, I began this book in complete and total ignorance. I had not read any of Madison Smartt Bell&rs...

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One Day I Saw a Black King

by Thumper

One Day I Saw a Black King Thumper Book Review Earlier this year, J. D. Mason had me singing her praises for her wonderful novel, And on the Eighth Day She Rested. Now I am at the mike again, ready ...

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Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

by Thumper

Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, ...

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Dark Matter: Reading the Bones

by Chris Hayden

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones Chris Hayden Book Review If It Ain’t Speculative and It Ain’t Fiction Need Black Folks Read Speculative Fiction? It distresses me when I can grant only q...

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The Bridge

by Thumper

The Bridge Thumper Book Review The Bridge, the second novel by Solomon Jones, should blow open the doors that his debut novel, Pipe Dreams did not. I am getting excited simply remembering the book ...

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Lackawanna Blues

by Brian Egeston

Lackawanna Blues Brian Egeston lackaw3.jpg Film Review How Matriarchs Have Made Us A Film Review of Lackawanna Blues. Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV) Directed by George C. Wolfe Written by Ruben Santi...

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Watchmen

by Kam Williams

Watchmen Kam Williams watchm18.jpg Film Review Long-Awaited Adaptation of Graphic Novel an Underwhelming Disappointment   Watchmen Rated R for full frontal nu...

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Brave at Heart

by Kirkus

Brave at Heart Kirkus Book Review “A professor emeritus reimagines Western notions of race, crime, and justice in this volume of essays. Not only has America failed to adequately say ‘...

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Marvel’s Black Panther

by Brenda M. Greene

Marvel’s Black Panther Brenda M. Greene Book Review The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Bl...

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The Dagger

by Hedi Harrington

The Dagger Hedi Harrington Book Review Timothy George’s 2016 novel, The Dagger, should come with a warning to all readers: “Fasten your seatbelts.” The fast-paced thriller is a sequ...

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Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman&rquo;s Film

by Akilah Monifa

Daughters of the Dust: The Making of an African American Woman&rquo;s Film Akilah Monifa Book Review This historical novel is actually a sequel to the movie of the same title. The book although stee...

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The Hiptionary

by Kam Williams

The Hiptionary Kam Williams Book Review ’Throughout the cultural evolution of the United States, Black people have consistently contributed a huge stock of colorful words, phr...

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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

by Kam Williams

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Kam Williams Book Review “One of the central themes of African Americans is the exploration of the diversity of ethnic origins of the people from ...

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The Stork Market

by Kam Williams

The Stork Market Kam Williams Book Review ’Adoption pits woman against woman, rich against poor, making it painfully difficult to look at and admit. Adoption is racist and classist and of...

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To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement

by Kam Williams

To the Mountaintop: My Journey through the Civil Rights Movement Kam Williams Book Review “On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded onto the cold, hard grounds of the nation’s cap...

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Diary of a Lost Girl (2)

by Chris Stevenson

Diary of a Lost Girl (2) Chris Stevenson Book Review “There are more pyramids in the Sudan than there are in Egypt, that’s a statistical fact… and today there are still 2-3 milli...

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Long Train…

by Jacqueline Jones LaMon

Long Train… Jacqueline Jones LaMon Book Review One of the magical qualities of reading is that we are transported from who we are and all that we know to be true into other realms. We are intr...

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Freedom Bound

by Jayne Cubbage

Freedom Bound Jayne Cubbage Book Review The novel Freedom bound is based on the life Anta Majigeen Ndiaya who had been captured by slave raiders from Yang Yang village in Senegal, West Africa. Auth...

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African American History for Dummies

by Kam Williams

African American History for Dummies Kam Williams Book Review ’African-American history, to be clear, is so much more than a handful of extraordinary individuals or practices like slaver...

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A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

by Kam Williams

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home Kam Williams Book Review “Black families and neighborhoods have been disproportionately victimized by bankers’ p...

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Legends

by Kam Williams

Legends Kam Williams Book Review ’’Would America have been America without her Negro people?’ W.E.B. Du Bois wrote those words shortly after the turn of...

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Mimi’s Village and How Basic Health Care Transformed It

by Kam Williams

Mimi’s Village and How Basic Health Care Transformed It Kam Williams Book Review “Mimi’s fictional village is like thousands of real villages in the developing world, where health care...

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My Holy Bible for African-American Children King James Version

by Kam Williams

My Holy Bible for African-American Children King James Version Kam Williams Book Review "If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’l...

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Negro with a Hat

by Thumper

Negro with a Hat Thumper Book Review I’m not an average reader of biographies. I am now realizing the older I get, the more biographies and history books my reading palette finds attr...

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Sapphire’s Grave

by Thumper

Sapphire’s Grave Thumper Book Review While many of us have long since grown tired of the slave narratives, slave stories, or stories that are rooted in our past, my fascination with these stories ...

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Merritt Magic

by Robert Fleming

Merritt Magic Robert Fleming Book Review Melinda Merritt’s nonfiction book, Merritt Magic, is a publication that defies category. In these pages, the reader will discover a reflective, mythical...

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If My Hair Had a Voice

by Lisa Y? Wilson

If My Hair Had a Voice Lisa Y? Wilson Book Review When another comb loses the battle with Kimya’s natural coils, feeling shame she apologizes and asks, “Can’t we just straighten it?...

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A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse

by Ahmad Wright

A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse Ahmad Wright Book Review Afrocentric themes find themselves cast through an academic lens of creativity, analysis, and cultural criticism in this revised, s...

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The Wanderers

by Eryka Parker

The Wanderers Eryka Parker Book Review The Wanderers by Mphuthumi Ntabeni is political fiction that straddles the line between novel and essay collection, weaving together themes of exile, faith, and...

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The Color Purple

by Angeli R. Rasbury

The Color Purple Angeli R. Rasbury Book Review Alice Walker once told an interviewer, "The black woman is one of America’s greatest heroes… . She has been oppressed beyond recogni...

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The Audacity of Hope

by Kam Williams

The Audacity of Hope Kam Williams Book Review ’There’s a school of thought that sees the Founding Fathers only as hypocrites and the Constitution only as a betrayal of the grand ideal...

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The Henry Louis Gates

by Robert Fleming

The Henry Louis Gates Robert Fleming Book Review Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of the nation’s most acclaimed scholars, is a masterful jack of all trades, including educator, editor, critic and ...

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The God Who Begat a Jackal

by Thumper

The God Who Begat a Jackal Thumper Book Review The great author of American letters, Albert Murray, wrote in his recently published book From The Briarpatch, ’The goal of the serious storytelle...

Film Review

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

by Kam Williams

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Kam Williams mandela-2013-alternate-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom In Theaters: Nov 29, 2013 Limited PG-13 for sexuality, intense violence...

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Phat Girlz

by Kam Williams

Phat Girlz Kam Williams phat_g31.jpg Film Review Plus-Sized Sisters Find Acceptance in Africa in Cross-Cultural Romantic Comedy   Phat Girlz Rated PG-13 for sex, expletives, and crude humo...

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Pray the Devil Back to Hell

by Kam Williams

Pray the Devil Back to Hell Kam Williams images/pray_t16.jpg Film Review PBS Series Documentary from Liberia Features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Pray the Devil Back to Hell premieres ...

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Soul Food Junkies

by Kam Williams

Soul Food Junkies Kam Williams Soul-Food-Junkies-poster.jpg Film Review Soul Food Junkies - Premiering January 2013 on Independent Lens   Soul Food Junkies 64 minutes In this PBS ...

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We Are Together

by Kam Williams

We Are Together Kam Williams we_are7.jpg Film Review Musical Documentary Examines Plight of South African AIDS Orphans We Are Together (Thins Simunye) Rated PG for mat...

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2016: Obama’s America

by Dinesh Sharma

2016: Obama’s America Dinesh Sharma 2016-obamas-america.jpg Film Review 2016: Obama’s America (2012) In Theaters: Jul 13, 2012 Limited PG, 1 hr. 29 min. Documentary, Special Interest D...

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Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans

by Troy Johnson

Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans Troy Johnson bound.jpg Film Review A description of Bound, not a film review follows: Bound: Africans vs. African-Americans (2015)Buy via Amazon or ...

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The End of Poverty

by Kam Williams

The End of Poverty Kam Williams images/img2A1.jpg Film Review Globalization Documentary Discusses Paradox of Poverty in Era of Unparalleled Wealth The End of Poverty? Unrated  ...

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Forgiveness

by Kam Williams

Forgiveness Kam Williams forgiv25.jpg Film Review More Truth than Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Revenge Flick   Forgiveness Unrated In English and Afrikaans with subtitles Running time: 112 ...

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Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema

by Kam Williams

Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Just-Wright.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2010 - Annual Assessmen...

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Blacktrospective 2011 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema

by Kam Williams

Blacktrospective 2011 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/thehelpposter.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2011 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Bl...

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Invictus

by Kam Williams

Invictus Kam Williams images/invictusdvd.jpg Film Review   DVD Features Morgan Freeman in Oscar-Nominated Performance as Nelson Mandela Invictus Click to buy via Amazon.com Actors...

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