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Life AFTER the Down Low

by Carol Taylor

Life AFTER the Down Low Carol Taylor Book Review Life After the Down Low is Ingrid M. Ellis’ honest and harrowing account of her life after finding out that her husband, Bobby, the man she thou...

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Blind Light

by Carol Taylor

Blind Light Carol Taylor Book Review In 2001, visionary social justice advocate, Glenda R. Taylor was struck with a potentially devastating illness that took most of her sight. Instead of retreating ...

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Granddaddy

by Carol Taylor

Granddaddy Carol Taylor Book Review Granddaddy is a poignant literary novel, told mostly in a stream of conscious narrative, that traces a family’s emotional journey through their memories of t...

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Life Is A Canvas

by Carol Taylor

Life Is A Canvas Carol Taylor Book Review Life is a Canvas is a contemporary novel about finding love and self and how the choices we make early in life, particularly in our twenties, sets us on a pa...

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Finding Heaven in the Dark

by Carol Taylor

Finding Heaven in the Dark Carol Taylor Book Review Part memoir, part self-help, part-spiritual realization, Finding Heaven In The Dark is William Ingram’s moving account of his journey to spir...

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Bibsy

by Carol Taylor

Bibsy Carol Taylor Book Review “Langston County is tucked into the southern tip of New York State, wedged between the Hudson River and the New Jersey state line. And it was home to Jake Tuck...

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Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels

by Carol Taylor

Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels Carol Taylor Book Review Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels is part social commentary, murder mystery, female empowerment novel; and is as much a search for sel...

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Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters

by Carol Taylor

Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters Carol Taylor Book Review Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters is an epistolary love story of a 1930s courtship between Mary Brooks and Luther ...

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My View from the Summit (VFS)

by Carol Taylor

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...

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White Gold

by Carol Taylor

White Gold Carol Taylor Book Review This sweeping historical novel follows aspiring railroad engineer, William Roberson, from his Jamaican homeland in 1897 at 16, to Panama, to help build the Pan...

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Wounded

by Carol Taylor

Wounded Carol Taylor Book Review As the headliner at a strip club, Samantha Miller is using her beautiful face and sexy body to get ahead, and hopefully make enough money to leave stripping behind ...

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Everything I Know About Zombies

by Carol Taylor

Everything I Know About Zombies Carol Taylor Book Review “When the apocalypse came, nine-year-old Letitia Johnson tried. She grabbed her little sister and her classmates and locked them ...

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How To Knock A Bravebird From Her Perch

by Carol Taylor

How To Knock A Bravebird From Her Perch Carol Taylor Book Review Inspired by family and friends who have been victims of abuse, D. Bryant Simmons, an advocate of female empowerment and children&rsq...

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Martin Luther King Bullavoid: Imploding Communities

by Carol Taylor

Martin Luther King Bullavoid: Imploding Communities Carol Taylor Book Review “Amid mounting threats to his life, Martin Luther King chose to step onto the second floor balcony of the Lorrai...

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Neglected but Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother’s Love

by Carol Taylor

Neglected but Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother’s Love Carol Taylor Book Review Born in 1987, Jonathan Anthony Burkett has lived a young life that reads like fiction: vicious be...

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Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village

by Carol Taylor

Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village Carol Taylor Book Review “I am a native Washingtonian, but I did not ‘live’ where most people want t...

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My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories

by Carol Taylor

My Lovely Golden Rose: A Lifetime Of Poetic Reflections and Precious Memories Carol Taylor Book Review My Lovely Golden Rose is a poetry and poetic prose collection of Carrolyn Pichet’s pers...

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Once Upon a Lie

by Carol Taylor

Once Upon a Lie Carol Taylor Book Review Once Upon a Lie is timely and timeless story of an unlikely friendship, doomed love, and tragedy, that asks the questions: Can we escape our circumstances and...

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Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens

by Carol Taylor

Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens Carol Taylor Book Review Dear Badass Black Girl, You are a true warrior who inherited the strength, courage, wisdom, love, and di...

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Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice

by Carol Taylor

Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest for Justice Carol Taylor Book Review Much more than a memoir, Black Power, Black Lawyer traces not only Nkechi Taifa’s personal life, and her decad...

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The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones

by Carol Taylor

The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones Carol Taylor Book Review The Culinary Art Portfolio is neither a cookbook nor a how-to-book. It’s a portfolio, with ready- to-frame prints of th...

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Bamboozled by Jesus

by Carol Taylor

Bamboozled by Jesus Carol Taylor Book Review Part self-help, part comedic memoir, part inspirational and motivational how-to, Yvonne Orji’s Bamboozled by Jesus is heartfelt and relatable advice...

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Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar

by Carol Taylor

Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar Carol Taylor Book Review Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace At A Beach Bar is Harold Phifer’s memoir of childhood abuse, family dysfunction, an...

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Fool Me Thrice

by Carol Taylor

Fool Me Thrice Carol Taylor Book Review “No doubt, I was born a sucker—a sucker for a hot girl with a smile, that is. I have to admit I was abused by every gold-digger I came across. For ...

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Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna

by Carol Taylor

Telling It Like It Is: The Remarkable Life Experiences of My Aunt Edna Carol Taylor Book Review Telling It Like It Is, is equal parts historical biography, personal recollections, family memories, an...

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Me First: A Deliciously Selfish Take on Life

by Carol Taylor

Me First: A Deliciously Selfish Take on Life Carol Taylor Book Review Women have always been taught to put themselves last, that it’s selfish to put themselves first. Have you ever thought ab...

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Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging the Juvenile Justice System One Book at a Time

by Carol Taylor

Tales of a Jailhouse Librarian: Challenging the Juvenile Justice System One Book at a Time Carol Taylor Book Review After almost thirty years as a high school teacher Marybeth Zeman quits her teach...

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Insignificant Others: Erotic Novellas

by Anita Doreen Diggs

Insignificant Others: Erotic Novellas Anita Doreen Diggs Book Review Award winning authors, Pynk and Carol Taylor have written two original tales for Insignificant Others. Fans will love both sto...

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The Ex Chronicles: A Novel

by Thumper

The Ex Chronicles: A Novel Thumper Book Review If any of you have been following me for any length of time, you are well aware of how I feel about the 3, 4 sista-girlfriends novels that had become ...

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Faith in the Fire: Wisdom for Life

by Kam Williams

Faith in the Fire: Wisdom for Life Kam Williams Book Review "Amazingly, many people of faith and members of the reading public have not heard of Gardner Taylor or his accomplishments. Publication ...

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Corridors of Genius

by Robert Fleming

Corridors of Genius Robert Fleming Book Review So many conflicting words have been written about the King of Pop, Michael Joseph Jackson, (1958-2009). Glenda R. Taylor’s Corridors of Genius tak...

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Burial Ground

by Eryka Parker

Burial Ground Eryka Parker Book Review I recently spent time diving into the pages of Burial Ground, a collection of poetry by Glenda R. Taylor. The ethereal cover and enticing description sucked me ...

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The Adventures of Sasha & Malia at the White House

by Kam Williams

The Adventures of Sasha & Malia at the White House Kam Williams Book Review "[This] story came to me in a dream one night not long after the inauguration of President Barack Obama… I d...

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Book of Letters

by Robert Fleming

Book of Letters Robert Fleming Book Review Mary J. Taylor’s Book Of Letters is just that, a book of letters from the Old School of storytelling. The series of sepia cultural flashbacks moves th...

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The Olympian: An American Triumph

by Emanuel Carpenter

The Olympian: An American Triumph Emanuel Carpenter Book Review What must it have been like to be the first African-American Olympic gold medalist? Would the feat have instilled pride in a nation w...

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Blood on the Dance Floor

by Andrew Byrd

Blood on the Dance Floor Andrew Byrd Book Review Analyzing the creative process of a legendary performer like Michael Jackson is daunting. Still, Glenda R. Taylor takes the challenge head-on as she d...

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The Ecstatic

by Thumper

The Ecstatic Thumper Book Review In a landmark volume on cultural stereotypes, Yuval Taylor (Faking It) and Jake Austen, the editor of Roctober Magazine, detail the history of the significance of...

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Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop

by Robert Fleming

Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop Robert Fleming Book Review In a landmark volume on cultural stereotypes, Yuval Taylor (Faking It) and Jake Austen, the editor of Roctober M...

Film Review

The Help

by Kam Williams

The Help Kam Williams images/thehelpposter.jpg Film Review Read a statement to the fans of The Help from the Association of Black Women Historians Segregation Era Saga Explores Unquestioned Social...

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I Am New Orleans

by Robert Fleming

I Am New Orleans Robert Fleming Book Review American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher Kalamu ya Salaam, a leading citizen of New Orleans’s 9th Ward, has always been a booster for the Cresce...

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Brave at Heart

by Kirkus

Brave at Heart Kirkus Book Review “A professor emeritus reimagines Western notions of race, crime, and justice in this volume of essays. Not only has America failed to adequately say ‘...

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Samson

by Idrissa Uqdah

Samson Idrissa Uqdah Book Review A Man's Strength Is Determined By His Faith Christian author Jacquelin Thomas has crafted a new novel with a contemporary twist on the love story of the Bibl...

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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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Children of the Waters

by Idrissa Uqdah

Children of the Waters Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Blood Ties, Family Lies Carleen Brice has returned to the literary scene with her second novel, Children of the Waters and she’s ...

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Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation

by Kam Williams

Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation Kam Williams Book Review "Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. Fro...

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Black and Ugly

by Thumper

Black and Ugly Thumper Book Review Shocked?! You should be. I know I am. Before any of you say anything, I admit that I am somewhat surprised to be reading T. Styles latest novel, Black and U...

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Gonna Lay Down My Burdens

by Thumper

Gonna Lay Down My Burdens Thumper Book Review On a rainy night, Desiree Sheffield calls Carmen Taylor (on the eve of Carmen’s wedding to Burl,) to come get her after another violent fight with...

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Alice In Dreamland

by Onlinebookclub.org

Alice In Dreamland Onlinebookclub.org Book Review Imagine a world where the majority of the population in the United States of America treacherously abandons their country. This is the story depicted...

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A Flag for Juneteenth

by Mel Hopkins

A Flag for Juneteenth Mel Hopkins Book Review Choose Freedom In A Flag for Juneteenth, Kim Taylor weaves a tale of freedom and how to achieve it even when your world is in tatters. And while this...

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This Bitter Earth

by Thumper

This Bitter Earth Thumper Book Review There are times in which a sequel does not reach or surpass the freshness and vitality of its predecessor. Times in which the original should be allowed to sta...

Film Review

The Lottery

by Kam Williams

The Lottery Kam Williams images/51T6WQyz4yL._SL500_AA300_.jpg Film Review DVD Chronicles Competition for Admission to Harlem Charter School The Lottery Click to order via Amazon ...

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Out of the Furnace

by Kam Williams

Out of the Furnace Kam Williams out-of-the-furnace.jpg Film Review Ex-Con Searches for Missing Sibling in Gruesome Revenge Thriller  Out of the Furnace In Theaters: Dec 6, 2013 Wide Rated R ...

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Ray

by Marvin X

Ray Marvin X ray.ht1.jpg Film Review Ray Unchain My Heart: The Ray Charles Story (2004) (USA) (working title) MPAA: Rated PG-13 for depiction of drug addiction, sexuality and some thematic element...

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Supremacy

by Kam Williams

Supremacy Kam Williams supremacy.jpg Film Review Supremacy In Theaters: Jan 30, 2015 LimitedOn DVD: Apr 21, 2015Rating: UnratedGenre: DramaDirected By: Deon TaylorRuntime: 1 hr. 46 min. Distributor:...

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We Are Together

by Kam Williams

We Are Together Kam Williams we_are7.jpg Film Review Musical Documentary Examines Plight of South African AIDS Orphans We Are Together (Thins Simunye) Rated PG for mat...

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Brotherly Love

by Kam Williams

Brotherly Love Kam Williams brotherly-love.jpg Film Review Brotherly Love In Theaters: Apr 24, 2015 Limited Rated: R for violence, profanity and ethnic slurs Genre: Drama Written & Directed By...

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Examined Life

by Kam Williams

Examined Life Kam Williams examin9.jpg Film Review Cornel West & Company Weigh-In on the State of American Culture Examined Life Click to order via Amazon Unrated Runn...

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Get On Up: The James Brown Story

by Kam Williams

Get On Up: The James Brown Story Kam Williams get-on-up-movie-poster-2.jpg Film Review Chadwick Channels James Brown in Nostalgic Jukebox Musical Get on Up: The James Brown Story In Theaters: Au...

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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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