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Black Books Matter Fest
Black Books Matter Fest MahoganyBooks - National Harbor Oxon Hill Maryland Though black books have always mattered, some have yet to discover the lost wisdom, rich history, and incredible creativity f...
SOKY Book Fest
SOKY Book Fest Bowling Green Kentucky Southern Kentucky Book Fest is one of the state’s largest literary events! Our mission is to encourage literacy and the love of books in our community and ...
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide Nationwide
Orcas Island Lit Fest
Orcas Island Lit Fest Orcas Center Eastsound Washington The Orcas Island Lit Fest (OILF) is an annual celebration of literature and community held in an inspiringly beautiful place. With the San Juan ...
Vancouver Writers Fest
Vancouver Writers Fest Granville Island, and two off Site Venues Vancouver Canada The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, expl...
Black Romance Book Fest
Black Romance Book Fest JW Marriott Buckhead Atlanta Georgia The Black Romance Book Fest aims to amplify and honor the diverse narratives of Black love in romance literature. This event is a vibrant p...
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest Underground Books and The Guild Theater Sacramento California The Sac BlkLit Book Fest is a one-day celebration of Black literature, culture, and community in Sacramento. T...
Lauren Lacey
Lauren Lacey NONE Lauren Lacey, an indie Romance author and digital strategist, has optimized global brands including PwC. She's the former marketing lead for Mastercard and AMEX gift cards, and a Fo...
Petersburg Book Fest
Petersburg Book Fest Petersburg Virginia The Petersburg Book Fest traces its roots back to the inspiring launch of Resist Booksellers, an independent Black-owned bookstore that opened its doors in th...
Printers Row Lit Fest
Printers Row Lit Fest Historic Printers Row Chicago Illinois The Printers Row Lit Fest was founded in 1985 by the Near South Planning Board to attract visitors to the Printers Row neighborhood (once t...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. 3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phon...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL ...
Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest.
Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest. Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest. Tulisoma: South Dallas Book Fair & Arts Festival http://www.tulisoma.com Friday, Saturday & ...
Word! A Caribbean Lit Fest
Word! A Caribbean Lit Fest Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton Street Brooklyn New York WORD! - A Caribbean Lit Fest is a celebration of Caribbean culture, thought, letters and a good st...
All Because You Matter
All Because You Matter Tami Charles 9781338574852 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to black and brown children everywhere: reminding them how much they matter, ...
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...
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian 9781642592702 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Black Lives Matter at School is an essentia...
Migrated Writers
Migrated Writers Migrated Writers 17th Annual Celeb.of Black Writing A Report From The Field More Bios. The Sight of the 360 Event 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair AA Cultural Expo 2000 AA Book Stor...
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Barbara Ransby 9780520292710 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press In the wake of the ...
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter Veronica Chambers 9780358573418 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerf...
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes George Yancy 9781442269118 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of or...
DuEwa M. Frazier
DuEwa M. Frazier NONE DuEwa Frazier is an accomplished writer, educator, and poet, renowned for her literary contributions and educational initiatives. Born in Brooklyn and raised in St. Louis, she f...
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Stephanie Stokes Oliver NONE Stephanie Stokes Oliver is an accomplished publishing professional, heading SSO Media, serving as a literary scout for Atria Book Group and as author curator for Anguilla...
The Bocas Lit Fest
The Bocas Lit Fest Port of Spain Trinidad & Tobago Boca is the Spanish word for mouth — the organ of speech and song and storytelling. And the Bocas del Dragón — the Dragon’s...
Great Midwest Book Fest
Great Midwest Book Fest Xchange Event and Creative Space Milwaukee Wisconsin
Tulsa Lit Fest
Tulsa Lit Fest Oklahoma State University Tulsa Oklahoma Tulsa Litfest brings together diverse literary artist and writers to collaborate and inspire, enriching the Tulsa community.
Elm City LIT Fest
Elm City LIT Fest Dixwell QHouse & Stetson Branch Library New Haven Connecticut To cultivate awareness around the Arts within the African Diaspora, with a focus in literary arts. With faith, unity, cr...
Blue Ridge Book Fest
Blue Ridge Book Fest Blue Ridge Community College Flat Rock North Carolina We seek to encourage interest in the literary arts by providing the public with personal access to significant regional autho...
Troy Andrews
Troy Andrews 0000000114882786 Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, a Grammy-nominated artist from Tremé, New Orleans, became a band leader at six. Known for his prodigious trombone skills, he now headlin...
Carolina Book Fest
Carolina Book Fest Marriott City Center Charlotte North Carolina Large Author Book Signing
L.L. McKinney
L.L. McKinney NONE L.L. McKinney is a writer and poet deeply involved in the kidlit community. She advocates for equality in publishing, co-founded the Juneteenth Book Fest, and created popular hasht...
Nick Brooks
Nick Brooks NONE Nick Brooks, an award-winning filmmaker and author from Washington, DC, is known for his short film 'Hoop Dreamin''. A 2020 USC graduate, he won the George Lucas Scholar Award and wa...
Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd 0000000028238169 Jonathan Todd, co-founder of Boston Kids Comics Fest and former teacher, is a distinguished comics author and illustrator. A Jacqueline Woodson Fellow, he studied writi...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. Troy Johnson Article ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phone at 314.369.613...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Troy Johnson Article THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 200...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. Loading ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phone at 314.369.6130. 3rd Annual Blackb...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Loading THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 2001 THE 10TH ANNUAL ETHERIDGE KN...
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446528603 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora The critically acclaimed, award-winning anthology...
Little Black Lives Matter
Little Black Lives Matter Khodi Dill 9781644211878 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes f...
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
Patrisse Khan-Cullors 0000000486461392 Patrisse Khan-Cullors, an LA-based artist and freedom fighter, is known for co-founding Black Lives Matter and Dignity and Power Now. A Fulbright scholar and NA...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele 9781250171085 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers The emotional and powerful story of ...
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays Amena Brown 9798217044689 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House An irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collec...
Does My Life Matter?
Does My Life Matter? Tamecca S. Rogers and Keith Ross 9781736542620 Nonfiction Inspire Publishing Inspire Publishing Keith is a kind and friendly kid who has a big heart for his friends and family. On...
Do Black Lives Matter To God?: Black Characters of Purpose in Scripture
Do Black Lives Matter To God?: Black Characters of Purpose in Scripture Jeff Edwards 9780999332603 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Political and religious leaders—past and present—have shap...
Words Matter Communications
Words Matter Communications Words Matter Communications Words Matter Communications
Words Matter Communications
Words Matter Communications Words Matter Communications Words Matter Communications
No Matter What!: 9 Steps To Living The Life You Love
No Matter What!: 9 Steps To Living The Life You Love Lisa Nichols 9780446538466 Nonfiction Grand Central Life & Style Hachette Book Group LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE-NO MATTER WHAT!From bestselling author ...
No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter Devin Allen 9780306925900 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the la...
Why Black Lives Do Matter
Why Black Lives Do Matter Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9781881032038 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press Why Black Lives Do Matter probes deeply how racial typecasting continues to fuel the ...
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...
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian MULTIPLE Denisha Jones, a member of the national Black Lives Matter at School committee, is an activist and advocate for education justice. She is the Director of the...
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir Kam Williams Book Review ’We have joined the rest of the country in protesting in order to get Trayvon Martin’s killer charged....
A Matter Of Life Or Death, Why Black Men Must Save Black Boys In America’s Public Schools
A Matter Of Life Or Death, Why Black Men Must Save Black Boys In America’s Public Schools Michael W. Nellums and Walter Milton Jr. 9780989850407 Fiction One-L Group One-L Group A Matter of Life and De...
My Brown Baby
My Brown Baby Denene Millner Excerpt Chapter 1 My Escort into Motherhood I WAS A YOUNG REPORTER WHEN I MET HER—full of energy, I had a flat stomach, still 120 pounds soaking wet, still ea...
Together, United (an All Because You Matter Book)
Together, United (an All Because You Matter Book) Tami Charles 9781338752052 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books With an inspirational message of unity comes the profound final installment of the All ...
Linda Addison
Linda Addison 000000003555029X “Addison has enough invention for two writers, and enough heart for three.” —Terry Bisson, Nebula Award winning author Linda D. Addison, first African...
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter
Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter Kelly Brown Douglas 9781626984455 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books How do we really know that God cares when Black people are still getting kille...
Damaged But Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph
Damaged But Not Destroyed: From Trauma to Triumph Michael Todd 9780593444894 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • ECPA Bestseller • The author of Relationship G...
You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book
You Can Be a Good Friend (No Matter What!): A Lil Tj Book Taraji P. Henson 9780310160595 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing From award-winning actress and mental-health advocate Tar...
25 Things That Really Matter In Life
25 Things That Really Matter In Life Gary A. Johnson 9780979111303 Nonfiction Courtland Press Courtland Press 25 Things That Really Matter In Life will help you identify your natural gifts and how to ...
25 Things That Really Matter In Life
25 Things That Really Matter In Life Kam Williams Book Review ’25 Things That Really Matter in Life is designed to get you started living a better life within the next fifteen minute...
Blackward
Blackward Lawrence Lindell 9781770466784 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club! Tired of feeling like you don’t belong? Join the...
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter Shani M. King 9780884488897 Fiction Tilbury House Publishers Tilbury House Publishers Black lives matter. That message would be self-evident in a just world, bu...
Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon 0000000445354582 Nicola Yoon, a #1 New York Times Bestselling Author known for her debut novel, 'Everything, Everything', is a proud member of We Need Diverse Books team. Residing in Los ...
The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter
The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter Cedric Johnson 9781839766305 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing ...
Victoria Rowell on the Love of Her Life and Her Memoir
Victoria Rowell on the Love of Her Life and Her Memoir Book Spotlights The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition) by Victoria Rowell 🔗 https://aalbc.com/books/9781959811770 Born a ward of the state in ...
Greater Austin Book Festival
Greater Austin Book Festival Austin Public Library Austn Texas GAB Fest is the only tri-county book festival in Austin that focuses specifically on local small-press and self-published authors. There ...
Tai Allen
Tai Allen NONE Tai Allen, a renowned Brooklyn-based creative director, poet, and musician, has excelled in multiple disciplines. His poetry and music have gained recognition from notable publications...
How to Be Free by Shaka Senghor
How to Be Free by Shaka Senghor Publishing & Craft The BLK Bestselling Book – How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life’s Hidden Prisons by Shaka Senghor 🔗 https://aalbc.com/books/9798893310511 ...
Trombone Shorty
Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews 9781419714658 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a tromb...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick 9780063017597 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A collection of The New Yorker’s groundbreaking writing o...
Black Authors Matter TV featuring AALBC’s Troy Johnson
Black Authors Matter TV featuring AALBC’s Troy Johnson Author Interviews Black Authors Matter TV features authors and industry experts that are making a difference in African-American literature. One-...
We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter
We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter Terrence L. Johnson 9780231200455 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Pr...
Cute Toot
Cute Toot Breanna J. McDaniel 9781250881298 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers An explosive ode to the bonds of sisterhood, the time-honored tradition of hide and seek, and the hilariou...
Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781477327814 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press 2024 Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/Dominican Repub...
Love at the Icicle Cafe
Love at the Icicle Cafe Denise N. Wheatley 9781952560774 Fiction Tule Publishing Tule Publishing Can an Icicle-Themed Festival Thaw the Most Unlikely Hearts? California lawyer Mina Richards spent...
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira 9780989960939 Nonfiction MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press Something happened and motivated these quiet activists to make an impac...
Anguilla Literary Festival
Anguilla Literary Festival Paradise Cove Resort West End Anguilla The Anguilla Lit-Fest was conceptualized as a means of celebrating Anguilla’s literary heritage and is seen as a catalyst for vi...
A Woman After David’s Heart: (A Valentine Romance) (Love for the Holidays) (Volume 2)
A Woman After David’s Heart: (A Valentine Romance) (Love for the Holidays) (Volume 2) Pat Simmons 9781494905477 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC David Andersen doesn’t have a problem indul...
Erotic City
Erotic City Marissa Monteilh 9780446179577 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Erotic City is sex-fest central-a hip, upscale swingers club for grown-folks only, located in the heart ...
Louis Edwards
Louis Edwards 0000000028382400 Louis Edwards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author, has written four novels including Ramadan Ramsey and Ten Seconds. Louisiana-born Edwards is als...
Danielle Y. C. McClean
Danielle Y. C. McClean NONE Danielle Y. C. McClean is an award-winning children's author, translator, and interpreter from Trinidad and Tobago. Her notable works include 'The Protectors’ Pledge' and ...
Phill Branch
Phill Branch NONE Phill Branch is a writer, live performance storyteller, and regional Emmy Award–winning filmmaker. He is a 2025 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council’s Creativity Gran...
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Kekla Magoon 9781536214185 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essen...
Hung
Hung Kam Williams Book Review ’The place: Providence, Rhode Island. The time, Spring 1986, my sophomore year in college’ I’m a little new to this, this meeting a strange girl ...
The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers
The Flesh of the Matter: A Critical Forum on Hortense Spillers Margo Natalie Crawford and C. Riley Snorton 9780826507495 Nonfiction Vanderbilt University Press Vanderbilt University Press PROSE Awards...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston 9781538737828 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette...
Dark Matter II
Dark Matter II Troy Johnson Article The Call for submission has ended DARK MATTER II : Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Edited by Sheree R. Thomas GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION...
Dark Matter II
Dark Matter II Loading The Call for submission has ended DARK MATTER II : Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Edited by Sheree R. Thomas GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS&n...
A Matter of Souls
A Matter of Souls Denise Lewis Patrick 9781541514829 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group From the shores of Africa to the bowels of a transatlantic ship to a voting booth in Mississippi t...
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole
Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole Tiffany Aliche 9780593232743 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A ...
Everything But The Burden
Everything But The Burden Rondall Brasher Book Review "Of all of our studies, history is best qualified to reward ourresearch." —El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X) This quo...
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora Sheree Renée Thomas 9780446525831 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and ...
In The Matter Of Color: Race And The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
In The Matter Of Color: Race And The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period A. Leon Higginbotham 9780195027457 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Focusing on the actions a...
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
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...
We Matter: Athletes and Activism
We Matter: Athletes and Activism Etan Thomas 9781617755941 Nonfiction Edge of Sports Akashic Books "Etan confronts our collective challenges and reminds us that life is not just a game, but demands a ...
Black Jokes About White Folks: The Black Lives Matter Joke Book
Black Jokes About White Folks: The Black Lives Matter Joke Book Mad Comedy 9798665010434 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Even during the dark days of slavery, our courageous...
How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter (the Power of Black Stories, Inspiration for Black Storytellers)
How to Become a Black Writer: Creating and Honoring Black Stories That Matter (the Power of Black Stories, Inspiration for Black Storytellers) Marita Golden 9781684817153 Nonfiction Books that Save Li...
I Would Love You Still
I Would Love You Still Adrea Theodore 9780823453665 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A trip to the zoo inspires a parent to list all the ways they love their child, no matter how wild they are, in ...