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Bill Clinton and Black America

by Walter Benefield

Bill Clinton and Black America Walter Benefield Book Review Bill Clinton came to the presidency of the United States inheriting a less than admirable race relations history from his predecessors. Wha...

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Cosby: His Life and Times

by Kam Williams

Cosby: His Life and Times Kam Williams Book Review “[Bill] Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother&...

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Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

by Kam Williams

Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Kam Williams Book Review “A book you can’t put down, but for all the wrong reasons.” “On May 17, 2004, ...

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The Seduction of Mr. Bradley

by Idrissa Uqdah

The Seduction of Mr. Bradley Idrissa Uqdah Book Review The Seduction of Mr. Bradley by Chicago author Minnie E. Miller tells a very different kind of love story, a love story complicated by prefere...

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Delta Farce

by Kam Williams

Delta Farce Kam Williams delta_3.jpg Film Review Nothing Works in Ill-Conceived Army Comedy Delta Farce MPAA:Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor. Runtime: 90 min Release Date:11 May 2007 (USA) ...

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Come on People

by Kam Williams

Come on People Kam Williams Book Review "For the last three and a half years, I have been holding community call-outs in cities around the country… This book will cover selec...

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Enough

by Kam Williams

Enough Kam Williams Book Review "Reparations sends a message to Americans of every other race that blacks are wards of the state because they are a broken people. Social ills in the black com...

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Love

by Thumper

Love Thumper Book Review Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison released a new novel, adding another jewel to her already brilliant literary crown. Love, Morrison’s eighth novel, introduces...

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Story/Time: The Life of an Idea

by Kam Williams

Story/Time: The Life of an Idea Kam Williams Book Review “In this ceaselessly questioning book, acclaimed African-American dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones reflects on his art...

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Dark Girls (Preview)

by Kam Williams

Dark Girls (Preview) Kam Williams dark-girls-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Dark Girls: Real Women, Real Stories Click to order via Amazon This documentary exploresd the deep-seated biases ...

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Dreamgirls (2006)

by Michael Dequina

Dreamgirls (2006) Michael Dequina dreamg1.jpg Film Review   Dreamgirls (2006) Rated PG-13 for sex, expletives, and drug use. Running time: 125 minutes Studio: Dreamworks Pictures   Review...

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Dolemite Is My Name

by C. Liegh McInnis

Dolemite Is My Name C. Liegh McInnis https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Dolemite_is_My_Name.jpg Film Review Rating: R (for some sexuality, full nudity and brief language) Genre: Drama Directed By: C...

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Why Men Fear Marriage

by Mel Hopkins

Why Men Fear Marriage Mel Hopkins Book Review WANTED: “Single Women” In 2050, women internment camps populate the Pacific coastline. This housing once reserved for Japanese Americans...

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Mind Right

by Kam Williams

Mind Right Kam Williams Book Review "If you are looking for a quick fix to your current financial issues, then this isn’t the right book for you… this book was written to dispel...

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PHD (Po Ho on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life

by Anita Doreen Diggs

PHD (Po Ho on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life Anita Doreen Diggs Book Review PHD (Po Ho on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life by Elaine Richardson begins in a poor and working c...

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Outliers

by Kam Williams

Outliers Kam Williams Book Review ’This is a book about outliers, men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. I’m going to introduce you to one kind of out...

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Harlem Godfather

by Idrissa Uqdah

Harlem Godfather Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Bumpy’s Widow Tells Her Story Harlem Godfather: The Rap on my Husband, Ellsworth ’Bumpy’ Johnson has been a long time coming on the h...

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Getting It Wrong

by Kam Williams

Getting It Wrong Kam Williams Book Review "The latest twist in the history of stereotyping is that the black middle and upper classes are now the loudest voices. Bill Cosby and other...

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It All Begins with ‘I’: The “New Rules” of Thinking and the Simple Secrets t

by Kam Williams

It All Begins with ‘I’: The “New Rules” of Thinking and the Simple Secrets t Kam Williams Book Review “What is your deepest desire? Probably the same thing most others really want: a happy an...

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Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success in 500 Days or Less

by Kam Williams

Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success in 500 Days or Less Kam Williams Book Review “In building NobleStrategy, [Bill Parrish] not only built a force in the construction mana...

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His Name Is George Floyd

by Robert Fleming

His Name Is George Floyd Robert Fleming Book Review In the midst of the deadly Covic-19 pandemic, the world witnessed the brutal killing of George Floyd, a 44-year-old black man, by a white Minneapol...

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Sunshine on the Crooked Road

by Eryka Parker

Sunshine on the Crooked Road Eryka Parker Book Review Sunshine on the Crooked Road is a sensational novel that resonated with me. There’s even a mention of Martha’s Vineyard, where I happ...

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Baldwin: A Love Story

by Robert Fleming

Baldwin: A Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review Long before I met James Baldwin’s friend Vertamae Grosvenor, I was a preteen Black boy who had read the writer’s bold novel Go Tell It on ...

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The Vixen Diaries

by Kam Williams

The Vixen Diaries Kam Williams Book Review "From the night we met in April 2005, I knew he was the one for me and that I would love him all the remaining days of my life. Our relationshi...

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Dark Girls

by Kam Williams

Dark Girls Kam Williams Book Review “In today’s society, dark skin has become linked to longer prison time, higher unemployment rates, low self-esteem, lower standards of beauty, a...

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Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate

by Kam Williams

Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate Kam Williams Book Review "Is it possible to talk about Muslims and terrorism without being called a bigot? …What happened to me was not about me a...

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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...

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The Brothers

by Paige Turner

The Brothers Paige Turner Book Review Musical Gumbo Features Some of Life’s Ups and Lotsa Life’s Downs The Neville Brothers new autobiography, The Brothers, co written with celebrity bio...

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I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang

by Alvin Romer

I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang Alvin Romer Book Review Quick! Can you tell me if you knew that there was a multi-racial teenaged gang terrorizing the west? Only once i...

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Cosbyology

by Akilah Monifa

Cosbyology Akilah Monifa Book Review Many people regard Bill Cosby as the penultimate father figure of the 80s, replacing Robert Young of "Father Knows Best." Cosby is probably best known...

Film Review

Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings

by Kam Williams

Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings Kam Williams /reviews/images/secret-of-americas-beginnings.jpg Film Review Documentary Discusses Influence of Fraternities on Founding Fathers and Beyond Se...

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Why We Laugh

by Kam Williams

Why We Laugh Kam Williams images/whywelaugh.jpg Film Review Reverential Documentary Pays Homage to Black Pioneers of Comedy Why We Laugh Click to order via Amazon Unrated Running time:...

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Cash Crop

by Kam Williams

Cash Crop Kam Williams images/cashcropmovie.jpg Film Review Decriminalization Documentary Extols Virtues of Legalizing Marijuana Cash Crop Unrated Running time: 84 Minutes Distributor: Sier...

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Dreamgirls (2006)

by Kam Williams

Dreamgirls (2006) Kam Williams dreamg1.jpg Film Review Jennifer Hudson Steals the Show in Adaptation of Tony Award-Winning Musical   Dreamgirls (2006) Rated PG-13 for sex, expletives, and dru...

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Freakonomics

by Kam Williams

Freakonomics Kam Williams images/kidfromfreakonomics.jpg Film Review Controversial Economics Best Seller Adapted to Screen Freakonomics [2010] Rated PG-13 for violence, sexuality, nudity, drug ...

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Hoodlum

by Michael Dequina

Hoodlum Michael Dequina images/hoodlu40.jpg Film Review   HOODLUM (1997) A film review by Timothy Voon http://us.imdb.com/M/reviews_by?Tim+Voon Copyright 1998 Timothy Voon (out of a p...

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Won't Back Down

by Kam Williams

Won't Back Down Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/wont-back-down.jpg Film Review Jaded Teacher and Single-Mom Join Forces in Uplifting Tale of Female Empowerment Won’t Back Down (2012) In ...

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