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Author Breena Clarke talks about her novel "Stand the Storm" & Quilting
Author Breena Clarke talks about her novel "Stand the Storm" & Quilting Book Spotlights
Breena Clarke
Breena Clarke 0000000116790578 Breena Clarke, a Washington D.C. native and Howard University alumnus, is a renowned author known for her debut novel, an Oprah Book Club selection 'River, Cross My Hea...
Breena Clarke and Amy Newmark
Breena Clarke and Amy Newmark MULTIPLE Amy Newmark is the author, editor, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Breena Clarke, a distinguished Black scholar and novelist, penned the ...
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke 0000000383377198 Cheryl L. Clarke, born in 1947, is a lesbian poet, essayist, and a Black feminist activist. Her work emphasizes African-American women's literature and black lesbian fe...
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea Linda Watkins Book Review Everyone knows that poetry is opinionated, subjective and sometimes downright confusing. I was delighted to find that the problem of comprehensi...
Angels Make Their Hope Here
Angels Make Their Hope Here Breena Clarke 9780316254007 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Russell’s Knob is not paradise. But already in 1849 this New Jersey highlands settlement is...
Dr. John Henrik Clarke - A Great and Mighty Walk - Watch This Film!
Dr. John Henrik Clarke - A Great and Mighty Walk - Watch This Film! Troy Johnson Article "...the first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa."-Dr. John Henr...
Stand The Storm: A Novel
Stand The Storm: A Novel Breena Clarke 9780316007047 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their ...
Stand the Storm
Stand the Storm Breena Clarke 9781602853522 Fiction Centerpoint Press Centerpoint Press Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still ma...
River, Cross My Heart: A Novel
River, Cross My Heart: A Novel Breena Clarke 9780316899987 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunt...
Corridors of Nostalgia: Poetry by Cheryl Clarke
Corridors of Nostalgia: Poetry by Cheryl Clarke Cheryl Clarke 9780978902308 Poetry Suspect Thoughts Press Suspect Thoughts Press Corridors of Nostalgia is the fifth collection of poetry by prominent o...
Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope
Chicken Soup for the Soul: I’m Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope Breena Clarke and Amy Newmark 9781611590838 Nonfiction Chicken Soup for the Soul Chi...
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780060099527 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins “One of her best collections to date.” —EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a ...
African American Quilting: The Warmth of Tradition
African American Quilting: The Warmth of Tradition Sule Greg C. Wilson 9780823918546 Nonfiction Rosen Publishing Rosen Publishing Explains the symbolism, stories, and family meaning that make American...
Hope C. Clarke
Hope C. Clarke NONE Brooklyn-based Hope C. Clarke is a single mom, JP Morgan Chase employee, and entrepreneur who spends her spare time writing and self-publishing fiction novels. Known for her “movi...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke 0000000109007688 Dr. John Henrik Clarke was born January 1, 1915 in Union Springs, Alabama and died July 16, 1998 in New York City. His family came from a long line of sha...
Living as a Lesbian
Living as a Lesbian Cheryl Clarke 9781938334061 Poetry A Midsummer Night’s Press A Midsummer Night’s Press Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. LIVING AS A LESBIAN is Cheryl Clarke’s paean ...
Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa John Henrik Clarke 9781574780475 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press First published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy...
The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005
The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980 to 2005 Cheryl Clarke 9780786716753 Poetry Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Lauded by luminaries such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne...
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke NONE Maxine Beneba Clarke, an Afro-Caribbean author and slam poet, wrote The Patchwork Bike and When We Say Black Lives Matter, aimed at explaining the concept of Black Lives Mat...
John Henrik Clarke And The Power Of Africana History: Africalogical Quest For Decolonization And Sovereignty
John Henrik Clarke And The Power Of Africana History: Africalogical Quest For Decolonization And Sovereignty Ahati N. N. Toure 9781592216277 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red ...
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems Cheryl Clarke 9780810147607 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has span...
When We Say Black Lives Matter
When We Say Black Lives Matter Maxine Beneba Clarke 9781536222388 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In a powerful, poetic missive, award-winning author-illustrator Maxine Beneba Clarke celebra...
Ayebia Clarke Publishing
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Ayebia Clarke Publishing
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Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads
Notes for an African World Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads John Henrik Clarke 9780865432703 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the late...
Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution
Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution John Henrik Clarke 9780865432710 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the late outstanding ...
Michael Bradley with John Henrik Clarke
Michael Bradley with John Henrik Clarke MULTIPLE Michael Bradley with John Henrik Clarke
Cion: A Novel
Cion: A Novel Zakes Mda 9780312427061 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers A Picador Paperback OriginalThe hero of Zakes Mda’s beloved Ways of Dying, Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America ...
Shaq Talks Back
Shaq Talks Back Shaquille O’Neal 9780312278458 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It’s rare to discover a candid sports autobiography—even rarer when the author is one of the most reco...
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery
I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery Cynthia Grady 9780802853868 Nonfiction Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company This powerful collection of poems chronic...
Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21)
Quilting: Poems 1987-1990 (American Poets Continuum Series, Vol. 21) Lucille Clifton 9780918526816 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Brilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empowe...
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: A Social Justice Model
Critical Race, Feminism, and Education: A Social Justice Model Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt 9780230109575 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Critical Race, Feminism, and Education provid...
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner John Henrik Clarke 9780933121959 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner was originally published in 1968. Edited b...
The Patchwork Bike
The Patchwork Bike Maxine Beneba Clarke 9781536200317 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press It has a bent bucket seat, bashed tin-can handlebars, and wood-cut wheels — and riding the patchwork bik...
John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher
John Henrik Clarke: Master Teacher Barbara Eleanor Adams 9781617590122 Nonfiction A & B Book Dist Inc A & B Book Dist Inc Featuring a forward by Dr. Leonard Jeffries The purpose of this book is to of...
African People in World History
African People in World History John Henrik Clarke 9780933121775 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Dr. John Henrik Clarke s African People in World History inaugurates the Black Class...
Infidelity
Infidelity Pat Tucker 9781599830131 Fiction Urban Soul Kensington Publishing Corp. A chance encounter reunites former college sweethearts Clarke Hudson and Persha Townsend after a ten year separation....
Ben-Jochannan, Clarke & Van Sertima's Reading Lists
Ben-Jochannan, Clarke & Van Sertima's Reading Lists Troy Johnson Article Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (Jan 26, 1935 – May 25, 2009), Dr. Yosef “Dr. Ben” Ben-Jochannan (Dec 31, 1918 - March 19, 2015), and Dr...
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement
“After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Cheryl Clarke 9780813534053 Poetry Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies ha...
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series)
Black American Short Stories (American Century Series) John Henrik Clarke 9780374523541 Fiction Hill and Wang Macmillan Publishers The success of John Henrik Clarke’s American Negro Short Stories, fir...
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism and Aggression
The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism and Aggression Michael Bradley with John Henrik Clarke 9781879831001 Nonfiction Kayode Pubn Kayode Pubn This revied version ...
New Dimensions in African History
New Dimensions in African History John Henrik Clarke 9780865432277 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press From the Nile valley to the new world, science invention and tec...
Michael Clarke Duncan - The "Green Lantern" Interview [2011]
Michael Clarke Duncan - The "Green Lantern" Interview [2011] Kam Williams Interview From The Green Mile to Green Lantern Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012) was born in Chic...
Echo Brown
Echo Brown NONE Echo Brown is a renowned storyteller, author, and performer known for her one-woman show, 'Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters'. She's also the author of 'Black Girl Unlimited'. Echo f...
My Life in Search of Africa
My Life in Search of Africa John Henrik Clarke 9780883781784 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press The author, one of the foremost scholars on Africa, fought to legitimize African history for...
By My Precise Haircut
By My Precise Haircut Cheryl Clarke 9781944585013 Poetry Hilary Tham Capital Collection The Word Works Poetry. African & African American Studies, Women’s Studies. LGBT Studies. THE HILARY THAM CAPITA...
Experimental Love: Poetry
Experimental Love: Poetry Cheryl Clarke 9781563410369 Poetry Firebrand Books Firebrand Books Cheryl Clarke is perhaps the pre-eminent African-American lesbian poet writing today. With a heady command ...
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism John Henrik Clarke 9781617590306 Nonfiction EWorld Inc EWorld Inc Dr. Clarke has again crushed myths of the ...
Best Lesbian Erotica 2003
Best Lesbian Erotica 2003 Cheryl Clarke 9781573441612 Fiction Cleis Press Cleis Press 24 sex stories by some of the best-known lesbian authors writing erotica today. Past books include notables such a...
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches John Henrik Clarke 9780883781364 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press This collection of speeches covers an array of topics fro...
Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry
Humid Pitch: Narrative Poetry Cheryl Clarke 9780932379672 Poetry Firebrand Books Firebrand Books Book by Clarke, Cheryl
Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women
Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women Cheryl Clarke 9780913175002 Poetry Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press First published in 1982 by Clarke, Narrativ...
Sankofa University: Studying African-Centered History and Culture
Sankofa University: Studying African-Centered History and Culture Robert Fleming Book Review Dr. Burnett Kwadwo Gallman’s Sankofa University: Studying African-Centered History And Culture, is a...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
She Talks to Beethoven
She Talks to Beethoven Adrienne Kennedy 9780573703959 Fiction Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals She Talks to Beethoven, written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, off...
William Loren Katz
William Loren Katz 0000000115886981 Bill Katz (1927-2019) was a prolific author and lecturer, known for his contributions to African American history. A graduate of Syracuse University and New York U...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of letters [offer] a rare glimpse into the dialogue between our nation&rsquo...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa Malcolm X 9780873489621 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press This expanded edition includes four talks and a...
Andrew Salkey
Andrew Salkey 0000000109378518 Felix Salkey was a Panamanian-born author dedicated to Jamaican culture. Raised in Jamaica, he became a prominent figure in the London community of West Indian writers ...
Best Seller
Best Seller Hope C. Clarke 9781929279029 Fiction A New Hope Publishing A New Hope Publishing An aspiring writer who gets more than she bargains for when her favorite best-selling author, Dean hands he...
Chancellor Williams
Chancellor Williams NONE Dr. Chancellor James Williams (1898-1992) was a pivotal scholar in the study of Nile Valley Civilization. Born to former slaves, he became an acclaimed author, university pro...
The Polished Hoe
The Polished Hoe Austin Clarke 9780060555658 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women on the colonized island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados), calls the p...
Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association Tony Martin 9781574781779 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press R...
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times John Henrik Clarke 9780865432017 Nonfiction Africa Research and Publications Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The full impact of Malcolm X, his personality and h...
Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories
Diplomatic Pounds and Other Stories Ama Ata Aidoo 9780956240194 Fiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ama Ata Aidoo is an iconic African woman writer who has inspired generations o...
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs 9781574780499 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A Lie of Reinvention is a response to...
Africa and the Discovery of America
Africa and the Discovery of America Leo Wiener 9781617590023 Nonfiction EWorld Inc EWorld Inc New Introduction by Dr. John Henrik Clarke By Leo Wiener, Professor of Slavic Language and Literature At ...
A History of Black Americans
A History of Black Americans William Loren Katz 9780153718861 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Bill Katz is one of the few members outside of our community who has made ...
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah 0000000110549118 Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister and president, led the country to independence from Britain in 1957 and ruled until a 1966 coup. His time in the U.S. greatl...
Little Lumpy’s Book of Blessings
Little Lumpy’s Book of Blessings Leah Lewis 9780970241528 Fiction Three Butterflies Entertainment & Press Three Butterflies Entertainment & Press “Writer L. Carol Lewis and illustrator Christopher B. ...
Not With My Son
Not With My Son Hope C. Clarke 9780972277150 Fiction Black Print Publishing Black Print Publishing Keesha Smalls has been out of passion’s game for a long time until she takes a second look at her bes...
Africa Beyond the Mirror
Africa Beyond the Mirror Boubacar Boris Diop 9780956930750 Fiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing The media tends to portray Africa in a manner that grossly distorts reality. The p...
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment Carole Boyce-Davies 9780956240163 Nonfiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing Claudia Jones, intellectual genius and staunch activist against racist ...
African Love Stories: An Anthology
African Love Stories: An Anthology Ama Ata Aidoo 9780954702366 Fiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book aimed a...
Best Vests
Best Vests Cheryl Clarke 9780761100003 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing
Great Capes
Great Capes Cheryl Clarke 9780761100010 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing
Black Heritage: Slave Trade and Slavery v. 2
Black Heritage: Slave Trade and Slavery v. 2 John Henrik Clarke 9780030841545 Nonfiction Holt Rinehart & Winston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Clarke’s Bookshop
Clarke’s Bookshop Cape Town CPT Clarke’s Bookshop has been in Long Street in the centre of Cape Town since 1957. Founded by Anthony Clarke as a secondhand bookshop, we began specialising in Af...
Black Silk
Black Silk Thumper Book Review Black Silk: A Collection of African American Erotica is an anthology that cheers the sexual, sensual side of African-Americans in literature told through short stories ...
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad 0000000084052510 Suheir Hammad, born October 25, 1973, is a Palestinian-American poet, author, performer, and activist renowned for her work in the spoken-word scene. She's had success ...
Portia Cosby Talks About Her Novel F.I.R.E. Reignited
Portia Cosby Talks About Her Novel F.I.R.E. Reignited Book Spotlights
Jewell Parker Rhodes Talks to WBUR about her Novel TOWERS FALLING
Jewell Parker Rhodes Talks to WBUR about her Novel TOWERS FALLING Book Spotlights
MBridges talks about her novel Getting Up and Getting On
MBridges talks about her novel Getting Up and Getting On Book Spotlights
Eric Jerome Dickey Talks About His New Novel
Eric Jerome Dickey Talks About His New Novel Book Spotlights
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...
The Secret of Gumbo Grove
The Secret of Gumbo Grove Eleanora E. Tate 9780440412731 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Raisin Stackhouse doesn’t mind doing odd jobs for old Miss Effie Pfluggins, but when Miss Effie talks her...
The Brainstormerz Money Talks
The Brainstormerz Money Talks Kwame Alexander with Cassidy Dyce 9780316541084 Fiction Little, Brown Ink Hachette Book Group For readers of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft comes a fresh, funny kids’ g...
Primrose Cameron
Primrose Cameron NONE Primrose Cameron is an experienced motivational speaker, life coach, teacher, and counselor based in West Volusia. She offers personal and professional development through her t...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams Interview Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2012 Getty Images Lee Daniels is best k...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/the-butler.jpg Film Review Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2...
K. Reshay Talks about her series Appearances
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Vanessa Davis Griggs Talks About Her Career as a Writer
Vanessa Davis Griggs Talks About Her Career as a Writer Author Interviews
Author Raven Talks About Her New Book, Women in Blue
Author Raven Talks About Her New Book, Women in Blue Book Spotlights
Author, Mickey See-Asia Talks About Her Book, Memoirs of Women in Blue
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Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08
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Naleighna Kai talks about NK Promo Partners
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