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The World According to Fannie Davis

by Tony Lindsay

The World According to Fannie Davis Tony Lindsay Book Review The World According to Fannie Davis is the story of a Black woman who became a numbers’ banker, which was a miraculous accomplishmen...

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A Prayer For Deliverance

by Thumper

A Prayer For Deliverance Thumper Book Review Christopher Chambers has returned FBI agent Angela Bivens, to the frontline in his marvelous sophomore thriller, A Prayer For Deliverance, an intense, ...

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Miles and Me

by Paige Turner

Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...

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The Good House

by Thumper

The Good House Thumper Book Review Tananarive Due has returned with The Good House, her best book to date. The Good House is a magnificent, irresistible family drama of one family fighting an evil ...

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In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom

by Robert Fleming

In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom Robert Fleming Book Review If you were politically conscious decades ago, you would have read the prison chronicles...

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Best Selling DVD's for 2011

by Kam Williams

Best Selling DVD's for 2011 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/aalbcdvd1.jpg Film Review 10 Best Selling DVDs on AALBC.com for 2011 This is the Start of Part 2 (Go to Part 1)   #6 • The Black Po...

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Sympathy For The Devil

by Thumper

Sympathy For The Devil Thumper Book Review I wasn’t expecting such an excellent, non-stop reading novel when I embarked on Christopher Chamber’s debut novel, Sympathy For The Devil. I wa...

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Olympus Has Fallen

by Kam Williams

Olympus Has Fallen Kam Williams olympus-has-fallen-angela-bassett-Morgan-Freeman.jpg Film Review   Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Click to order DVD from Amazon In Theaters: Mar 22, 2013 Wide ...

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Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson

by Robert Fleming

Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson Robert Fleming Book Review When I was a teen sweeping sawdust at the butchery, where I worked after school hours, my uncle hipped me to jazz and Bird, Monk, Prez, and La...

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Killer of Sheep

by Kam Williams

Killer of Sheep Kam Williams killer27.jpg Film Review Killer of Sheep Click to order via Amazon Unrated Black & White Running time:     81 minutes Studio: New Yorker Video/Miles...

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Threesome

by Tiffany M. Davis

Threesome Tiffany M. Davis Book Review I must say, this book was not what I expected. The title brings to mind images of a steamy m’nage a trois, either male/female/male or the more commonly po...

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The PACMAN Plan

by Tiffany M. Davis

The PACMAN Plan Tiffany M. Davis Book Review The PACMAN plan is an ambitious debut by Sam A. Kempt. Set in the smoldering background of Austin, Texas, this book takes an eye-opening look at race, ...

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Emotions

by Tiffany M. Davis

Emotions Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Emotions certainly contained a lot of them. Love, lust, jealousy, rage’Mr. McCann left no stone unturned in this novel about relationships between both the...

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Black Cops Against Brutality

by Kam Williams

Black Cops Against Brutality Kam Williams Book Review ’Police brutality reminds me of the darkness in history when the master whipped the slaves just because he could’ There can be no mo...

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A Love of My Own

by Linda Watkins

A Love of My Own Linda Watkins Book Review Welcome Back Mr. Harris. Everybody! Yes, I mean, ev-ver-ry-bo-dy gets lonely sometimes and needs a little love. That’s what author, E. Lynn Harris,...

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A Thirst For Rain

by Tiffany M. Davis

A Thirst For Rain Tiffany M. Davis Book Review A Thirst For Rain is a multigenerational novel set in Trinidad. It is a tale about demons both real and perceived, and how deceptively simple it is to o...

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As If Nothing Happened

by Tiffany M. Davis

As If Nothing Happened Tiffany M. Davis Book Review "And in the nine years she had known Joya, since freshman year, and in the eight years they had known Yvonne, the three had never become dist...

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Every Bitter Thing Sweet

by Tiffany M. Davis

Every Bitter Thing Sweet Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Every Bitter Thing Sweet picks up where A Thirst For Rain ends. While this is the story of Odile and Rory, Ms. Carrington continues her portrayal...

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Love Don’t Come Easy

by Tiffany M. Davis

Love Don’t Come Easy Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Boy looks for girl. Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Boy looks for another girl. J.T. Smith puts a fresh spin on an old formula in his highly enterta...

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Relationships

by Tiffany M. Davis

Relationships Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Leonard Jenkins II’s first book, Relationships (Volume I): Lessons Before Dying, is a tale of love (finding it, losing it, keeping it) set against an ...

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Spiritual Shackles

by Tiffany M. Davis

Spiritual Shackles Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Who burned the churches? This is a question that kicks off the historically mystic journey that is Spiritual Shackles.  Set primarily in Pasadena...

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Blue in Green

by Robert Fleming

Blue in Green Robert Fleming Book Review On August 25, 1959, jazz trumpeter Miles Davis escorts a white girl to a cab, lights a cigarette outside Birdland, and a city policeman harasses the black man...

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Perfect Timing

by Tiffany M. Davis

Perfect Timing Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Brenda Jackson’s second full-length fiction work Perfect Timing, is a novel about losing, finding, and maintaining friendship and love. Mrs. Jackson ...

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The Pact

by Kam Williams

The Pact Kam Williams the_pa18.jpg Film Review Three Black Boys from Newark Overcome Odds to Become Doctors   The Pact Click to order via Amazon ...

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Mixed: My Life in Black and White

by Kam Williams

Mixed: My Life in Black and White Kam Williams Book Review ’Soon, two black security guards were buzzed through the doors toward me. My mouth stayed on full blast. ’Oh, sure, y’...

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We Refuse to Be Silent

by Robert Fleming

We Refuse to Be Silent Robert Fleming Book Review Back in 2014, after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, journalist and writer Angela P. Dodson got the idea then for her recently publi...

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We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America

by Eryka Parker

We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America Eryka Parker Book Review We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America by Michael I...

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Let the Lion Eat Straw

by Thumper

Let the Lion Eat Straw Thumper Book Review One of the residuals affect I had hoped would happen when African American literature was proven marketable was the rediscovery of previously pub...

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Jumping the Broom

by Kam Williams

Jumping the Broom Kam Williams images/jumping_the_broom.jpg Film Review Ghetto Meets Suburbia Comedy Co-Starring Alonso and Patton Arrives on DVD Jumping the Broom Click to order DVD fr...

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How to Avoid the Superwoman Complex 12 Ways to Balance Mind

by Kam Williams

How to Avoid the Superwoman Complex 12 Ways to Balance Mind Kam Williams Book Review “Although we spend the bulk of our waking hours working, we often underestimate the impact of work on our ...

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Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living

by Kam Williams

Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living Kam Williams Book Review “I’m aware that, for black men today, racism is still an obstacle that causes tremendous anger and suffering… Whether...

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Strongholds

by Idrissa Uqdah

Strongholds Idrissa Uqdah Book Review The second book in the Blessed Trinity trilogy by best selling Christian fiction author, Vanessa Davis Griggs is a story full of the challenges that c...

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Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God

by Kam Williams

Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God Kam Williams Book Review “Why is it becoming increasingly acceptable to kill unarmed black children? Why are they so easily perceived as...

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From Dusk To Dawn

by Idrissa Uqdah

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 ...

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God Ain’t Blind

by Idrissa Uqdah

God Ain’t Blind Idrissa Uqdah Book Review God Is Getting Tired And So Am I I think you have to really love the books and the characters in the God Don't Like Ugly series to still be reading th...

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How Could My Husband Be Gay?

by Kam Williams

How Could My Husband Be Gay? Kam Williams Book Review Have you ever ignored any red flags regarding your mate? "How Could My Husband Be Gay?" may cause you to never make that mistake agai...

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Abide With Me

by Paige Turner

Abide With Me Paige Turner Book Review Warning: The following comments reveal a conflicted and divided point of view, a la the characters who populate the novels of E. Lynn Harris. Readers are ad...

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Conversation with the Mann

by Thumper

Conversation with the Mann Thumper Book Review Not since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has a first person narrative novel struck me with such a poignant sense of completeness and satisfaction a...

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Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL

by Amanda Robinson

Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL Amanda Robinson Book Review Atlanta is one of the most popular cities in this country. This metropolis is one of the few epicenters dripping Black ...

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Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story

by Robert Fleming

Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review When I was growing up, I heard about boys and girls, men and women from my Hood going to The Big House. One of the girls I dated had an inm...

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Read Until You Understand

by Robert Fleming

Read Until You Understand Robert Fleming Book Review With a solid array of books to her credit, Farah Jasmine Griffin has possibly written one of the artistic highlights in the national book marketpl...

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Palmares

by Robert Fleming

Palmares Robert Fleming Book Review No less than the esteemed late novelist Toni Morrison, the chief editorial gatekeeper of Random House, was stunned by the narrative power of Gayl Jones’ firs...

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Duende

by Robert Fleming

Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...

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The Black Dancing Body

by Rondall Brasher

The Black Dancing Body Rondall Brasher Book Review This book actually came to my attention last month on the home page of African American Literature Book Club. Troy had it in the revolving new titl...

Film Review

Pariah

by Kam Williams

Pariah Kam Williams pariah1.jpg Film Review Latent Lesbian Summons Courage in Out-of-the-Closet Drama Pariah [2011] Written & Directed By: Dee Rees Rated R for profanity and sexuality. Run...

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Waiting for Superman

by Kam Williams

Waiting for Superman Kam Williams images/classroom.jpg Film Review Scathing Expose’ Chronicles Failings of Public Educational System   Waiting for Superman Cli...

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The Express

by Kam Williams

The Express Kam Williams rob_br10.jpg Film Review Rob Brown Stars as Late Gridiron Great in Bittersweet Bio-Pic The Express (2008) Rated PG for violence, mature ...

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A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy

by Kam Williams

A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy Kam Williams a_good15.jpg Film Review Sexplicit Action Aplenty in Raw, Raunchy Romantic Romp   A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy Click to order...

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Blacktrospective 2008 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema

by Kam Williams

Blacktrospective 2008 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/the_se11.jpg Film Review Kam's Annual Assessment of the Best (and...

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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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