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Blk Powerhouse Summit
Blk Powerhouse Summit Zoom Virtual Use Code “aalbc&Rdquo; for 10% off Your TicketThe Blk Powerhouse Summit is a virtual gathering of Black professionals across the Black book ecosystem designed...
Leah Hernandez
Leah Hernandez NONE Leah Hernandez is the Founder and CEO of Muse Inc., an award-winning publishing company committed to amplifying diverse voices in adult fiction and nonfiction. Muse Inc. includes...
The Importance of Reporting Sales to BookScan
The Importance of Reporting Sales to BookScan Book Spotlights Yahdon Israel, senior editor at Simon Schuster, explains the importance of booksellers reporting book sales to BookScan through the Americ...
Blk Mkt Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories
Blk Mkt Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart 9780762484034 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group This one-of-a-kind treas...
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
BLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art Zaria Ware 9780063272415 Nonfiction Harper Design HarperCollins “This can’t be real.” Surely, someone must have gotten carri...
PowerHouse Books
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Five Nights Before the Summit
Five Nights Before the Summit Mukuka Chipanta 9781569026861 Fiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press It is 1979. The first Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit on African s...
My View from the Summit (VFS)
My View from the Summit (VFS) Carol Taylor Book Review My View From The Summit is Nicole Thomas’s “inspiring personal memoir” reflecting on her experiences and life lessons on m...
BLK INK Book Festival
BLK INK Book Festival City Park Pavillion of the Two Sisters New Orleans Louisiana Experience the BLK INK Book Festival! This four-hour live event is a book expo compromised of 50+ local and regional ...
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s
A Time Before Crack: Photographs from the 1980s Jamel Shabazz 9781648230059 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the stre...
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth Ahmad Wright Book Review It is not often that a living person’s résumé reads as a memoir, however, Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roa...
Writing Sisters Summit
Writing Sisters Summit Taos New Mexico The Writing Sisters Summit was created in 2018 by Best-Selling Author Nina Foxx as a community for writers of color to come together and share what they have le...
Archway Editions
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Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth Kingsley H. Smith 9798350912029 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth; My True AM - FM - Satellite - an...
The Spice Diet: Use Powerhouse Flavor to Fight Cravings and Win the Weight-Loss Battle
The Spice Diet: Use Powerhouse Flavor to Fight Cravings and Win the Weight-Loss Battle Judson Todd Allen 9781538727430 Nonfiction Grand Central Life & Style Hachette Book Group Celebrity chef Judson T...
BLK Author Expo
BLK Author Expo Keller Williams Event Center Largo Maryland Be a part of this community gathering and vendor marketplace celebrating African American authors and their works. The five-hour live book e...
Blk Grrrl Book Fair
Blk Grrrl Book Fair Brooklyn New York In the past two years over 2,000 members of a diverse public have come to experience the unique, eclectic, feminist and funky experience of the BGBF in Los Angel...
Zaria Ware
Zaria Ware NONE Zaria Ware, an award-winning poet and writer, is passionate about history. She created BLK ART to reflect her love for the past and her desire to see herself in it. Zaria Ware is an a...
Leah Freeman-Haskin
Leah Freeman-Haskin NONE Leah Freeman-Haskin is a debut children's book author, content creator, and founder of BLK Oceans, promoting Black-owned businesses. She resides in Memphis, Tennessee, with h...
Char Adams
Char Adams NONE Char Adams is a reporter for NBC News' BLK, specializing in race, gender, and class issues. She has covered a wide range of topics, with her work featured in major publications includ...
Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart
Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart MULTIPLE Jannah Handy and Kiyanna Stewart are the co-founders of BLK MKT Vintage, an online vintage/antique concept shop that specializes in collectibles and curiosit...
Summit Books
Summit Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc.
ECPA Leadership Summit
ECPA Leadership Summit Sonesta Nashville Airport Hotel Nashville Tennessee Conference on current issues and trend that are important to the industry.
My View From The Summit (Vfs)
My View From The Summit (Vfs) Nicole Thomas 9781495260698 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC
Nina Foxx
Nina Foxx 0000000045364941 Nina Foxx, a prolific author of 15 novels, has also written, produced, and directed multiple award-winning stage plays and films. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a...
Yvonne Orji
Yvonne Orji NONE Emmy-nominated actress, writer, and comedian, Yvonne Orji, is renowned internationally for her HBO comedy special and her role in HBO's Insecure. She's also a sought-after speaker wh...
POW! Kids Books
POW! Kids Books powerHouse Books POW! Kids Books
Back in the Days Coloring Book
Back in the Days Coloring Book Jamel Shabazz 9781576878095 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Straight from the old-school streets of NYC at the dawn of the hip-hop scene comes Back in the D...
Black Light
Black Light Kehinde Wiley 9781576874868 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Kehinde Wiley painted President Obama’s official portrait and this is an early book from him documenting his extrao...
The Sole Provider: Thirty Years of Nike Basketball
The Sole Provider: Thirty Years of Nike Basketball Robert “Scoop” Jackson 9781576871614 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Designed with Nike’s trademark visually striking graphics, Sole Pro...
Back in the Days
Back in the Days Jamel Shabazz 9781576871065 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today’s multi-mi...
Behind the Ink
Behind the Ink The Harbert Center Birmingham Alabama Presented by Me Time Book Club, “Behind the Ink” is a premiere book event featuring bestselling authors and vendors. This free family f...
Will’s Race for Home (paperback)
Will’s Race for Home (paperback) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316299435 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award! A New York Times...
All about Love American Classics Edition: New Visions
All about Love American Classics Edition: New Visions bell hooks 9780063497511 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins A perennial BLK and New York Times bestseller and enduring classic of m...
Phases: A Memoir
Phases: A Memoir Brandy 9781335013279 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press INSTANT #1 BLK Bestseller and #1 New York Times Bestseller! The iconic, multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winni...
History of our Annual Black Pack Party
History of our Annual Black Pack Party Troy Johnson Article The Black Pack Party is a gathering of professionals across the Black book ecosystem. It was originally held annually during Book Expo Amer...
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 ...
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years Kadija Sesay and Cheryl Robson 9781913641412 Nonfiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications Encounters with James Baldwin celebrates the c...
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up Remica Bingham-Risher 9780807015926 Poetry Beacon Press Beacon Press Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a ...
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems
I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems Sonia Sanchez 9780883781128 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press The author of several books of poetry, Sanchez’ I’ve Been A Woman is the dynamic trans...
BLK Bestsellers - Top Selling Black Books
The definitive monthly bestsellers list for Black-authored books across Adult Fiction, Nonfiction, YA, and Children literature, powered by Circana sales data.
Brooke C. Obie
Brooke C. Obie NONE Brooke C. Obie, JD, MFA, is a graduate of Hampton University and Mercer University School of Law. She worked on rapper T.I.'s legal defense team and is a Fulbright Fellowship fina...
Amena Brown
Amena Brown NONE Amena Brown is a writer, spoken word poet, and performing artist whose work blends storytelling, poetry, and humor. She is the author of five spoken word albums and two nonfiction b...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc. Aladdin Aladdin Paperbacks Atheneum Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Atria / 37 Ink Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Atria / One S...
Great Black Hope
Great Black Hope Rob Franklin 9781668077436 Fiction Summit Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tra...
So Let Them Burn
So Let Them Burn Kamilah Cole 9780316534635 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine wh...
Vanessa Nakate
Vanessa Nakate Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711285453 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little ...
Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era
Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era Bakari Kitwana 9780883783085 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Kitwana, author of the best-selling The Hip-Hop Generation, sits down with leadership of t...
Approaching the Fields: Poems
Approaching the Fields: Poems Chanda Feldman 9780807168295 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press In a cadence reminiscent of old gospel rhythms rising from deeper reflections on the evolut...
King Comus
King Comus William Demby 9780918408259 Fiction Ishmael Reed Publishing Ishmael Reed Publishing With this publication of the novel “King Comus,” William Demby caps his already great literary achievemen...
The Obama Legacy Timeline: A Chronicle of the Greatest American Presidency
The Obama Legacy Timeline: A Chronicle of the Greatest American Presidency Walt Goodridge 9781541365063 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A week by week chronicle of every noteworthy bil...
Sacred Mountain: Everest
Sacred Mountain: Everest Christine Taylor Butler 9781620141618 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Mount Everest — a place of mystery, majesty, and unparalleled beauty — rises into the sky high...
Crossover
Crossover Dennis A. Williams 9780671726409 Fiction Summit Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Caught between two races and two cultures, preoccupied with finding the father he never knew, Richard Isaac is un...
Brook Susan Parker
Brook Susan Parker NONE Dr. Brook Bello (formerly brook susan parker), CEO/Executive Director, and Founder of More Too Life, Inc. and Living Above the Noise Center in Florida. She is a #Champion fro...
Kenji Jasper
Kenji Jasper 0000000002779450 “My name is Kenji Nathaniel Jasper and I am author. But I know that in this day and age ‘authors’ come a dime a dozen. It is no longer an event when one of ou...
Manning Marable
Manning Marable 0000000121475054 William Manning Marable (1950-2011) was a renowned professor of public affairs, history, and African-American Studies. He held positions at several universities, incl...
KR Bankston
KR Bankston NONE KR Bankston is an accomplished Fiction Novelist, Publishing Consultant, and CEO of Kirabaco Media Group. Known for her commercial publishing debut, 'A Deadly Encounter' in 2008, she ...
Toni Tipton-Martin
Toni Tipton-Martin 0000000035718195 Toni Tipton-Martin is an award-winning food journalist and community activist, recognized for her efforts to promote healthier communities. She's a recipient of th...
Jeff Johnson
Jeff Johnson NONE Jeff Johnson is a decorated journalist and communication specialist, now President of JIJ Communications. Co-founder and CEO of Elite Voices Speakers, he's a regular on TheRoot.com ...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson 000000003829384X Robert Jackson, author of “The No More Excuses Curriculum,” is a renowned speaker, educator, and consultant specializing in issues facing African-American and Latino s...
Rachel Renée Russell
Rachel Renée Russell 0000000116442848 “Black writers should not be typecast into having only black characters.”—Shonda Rhimes Rachel Renee Russell, attorney and bestselling author of...
Brian Keith Harris II
Brian Keith Harris II NONE Brian Keith Harris II is an acclaimed educator and speaker, renowned for advancing education for black and brown children. He founded Cultivating Young Kings and Sons of Fr...
Brittney Brackett
Brittney Brackett NONE Brittney Brackett is a multifaceted professional with over 17 years of experience in acting, voice talent, and authoring children's books. She is the Operations Manager at b dy...
Khalid Raheem
Khalid Raheem NONE Khalid Raheem is a community activist and author based in Pittsburgh. He has profound commitment to social justice and human development. His activism began in early 1970 when he j...
Fanta Ballo
Fanta Ballo NONE Fanta Ballo is a captivating motivational speaker, an award-winning spoken word artist, and the author of the poetry book, For All The Things I Never Got To Say. Fanta ignites t...
La June Montgomery Tabron
La June Montgomery Tabron NONE La June Montgomery Tabron is president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan, one of the largest private foundations in the United State...
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain Kam Williams kevin-hart-let-me-explain.jpg Film Review Hottest Stand-Up Comic Wows Sold-Out Garden in Concert Tour Finale Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain In Theaters: Jul 3, 20...
Wellington Webb
Wellington Webb Kam Williams Book Review ’I arrived in the Mile High City in 1953 as a sickly, 100-pound, 12 year-old with asthma. Denver had a small, tight-knit black communi...
Never Back Down
Never Back Down Kam Williams never_24.jpg Film Review New Karate Kid in Town Learns to ’Never Back Down’ Never Back Down Rated PG-13 for mature themes, intense violence, pro...
Next Day Air
Next Day Air Kam Williams next_d73.jpg Film Review Laughs Aplenty in Hilarious Homage to Blaxploitation Genre Next Day Air Rated R for violence, drug use, pervasive profanity and brief ...
Dr. Henry Louis Gates - The "Black in Latin America" Interview
Dr. Henry Louis Gates - The "Black in Latin America" Interview Kam Williams Interview Dr. Gates on His New PBS Series Professor Henry Louis Gates dominated the national news for ...
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes
You’ve Got to Tell the World How to Treat You: And Other Essential Quotes James Baldwin 9780807026472 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In these troubling times when readers are seeking hope and pu...
POW! Kids Books
POW! Kids Books POW! Kids Books powerHouse Books
When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land
When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land W. Ralph Eubanks 9780807045329 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press For readers of The Sum of Us and South to Americ...
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771507 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Misty Copeland to Rosa Parks to Nina Simone, this picture boo...
Fela: Music Is the Weapon
Fela: Music Is the Weapon Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery 9780063058798 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-Africa...
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 ...
Your Crown Shines: For Ketanji Brown Jackson and You
Your Crown Shines: For Ketanji Brown Jackson and You jessica Care moore 9780063311398 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins Ketanji. Unshook. Unbothered. Poised for position....
Little Big Man
Little Big Man Varian Johnson 9781338807431 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books An excellent choice for Father’s Day gifting! From literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / ...
Dream Count
Dream Count Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593802724 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and ...
Dream Count (Large Print)
Dream Count (Large Print) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9798217014361 Fiction Random House Large Print Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • A publishing event ten years in the making—a sea...
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir
The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir RuPaul 9780063263901 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and person...
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement Tanisha C. Ford 9780063115712 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An engrossing social history of the un...
The Slave Who Loved Caviar
The Slave Who Loved Caviar Ishmael Reed 9781648230165 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught rel...
Before I Let Go
Before I Let Go Kennedy Ryan 9781538706794 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing A Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick! Book of the Month Club selection NPR Best Books of 2022 Entertainment Week...
Level Up
Level Up Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery 9780593539828 Nonfiction Portfolio Penguin Random House An inspiring and revelatory guide to starting and scaling a small business, from powerhouse duo Sta...
Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston
Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston Gerrick Kennedy 9781419749698 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR… SO FAR by The New Yorker Named a B...
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night E.K. Robertson 9780578306100 Fiction Austin House Publishing Austin House Publishing When a digital media powerhouse becomes the object of conspiracy, a corporate celeb...
All Her Little Secrets
All Her Little Secrets Wanda M. Morris 9780063204331 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins "All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the...
Life Among the Aryans
Life Among the Aryans Ishmael Reed 9781576879900 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controver...
Playing the Cards You’re Dealt
Playing the Cards You’re Dealt Varian Johnson 9781338348538 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author...
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, ...
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda Ishmael Reed 9781576879245 Nonfiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books "That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton." Described by the New York Times as "classic activis...
G.O.A.T. - Serena Williams: Making the Case for the Greatest of All Time
G.O.A.T. - Serena Williams: Making the Case for the Greatest of All Time Tami Charles 9781454932017 Nonfiction Sterling Children’s Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Who is the greatest tennis player ...
The Sixth Man: A Memoir
The Sixth Man: A Memoir Andre Iguodala with Carvell Wallace 9780525533986 Nonfiction Blue Rider Press Penguin Random House The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth...
The Best American Short Stories 2018
The Best American Short Stories 2018 Roxane Gay and Heidi Pitlor 9780544582941 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest e...
A Stallion Dream (The Stallions)
A Stallion Dream (The Stallions) Deborah Fletcher Mello 9781335216823 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited Has this Stallion met his match… In and out of the courtroom? Colli...