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Lit Noire Publishing
Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing https://www.litnoirepublishing.co/ Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization, was founded in 2002 by poet, auth...
Lit Noire Publishing
Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing https://www.litnoirepublishing.co/ Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization, was founded in 2002 by poet, auth...
Black Lit Weekend
Black Lit Weekend The Barnett - JDV by Hyatt New Orleans Louisiana This multi-day conference brings together Black-owned bookstore owners from across the country for a weekend that honors the legacy o...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #43: Queer/Black/Lit
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #43: Queer/Black/Lit Mecca Jamilah Sullivan mosaic43 Fiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine Bringing together an intergenerational, diasporic, multige...
Black Writers Weekend
Black Writers Weekend Auburn Avenue Research Library Atlanta Georgia Black Writers Weekend expands nationwide this year, bringing its celebrated literary festival to six U.S. cities. Alongside the fla...
Weekend Wealth Transfer: How Black Churches Move Billions of Dollars Out of Black Communities and How to Move It Back
Weekend Wealth Transfer: How Black Churches Move Billions of Dollars Out of Black Communities and How to Move It Back Gwen Richardson 9781539373643 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ever...
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 ...
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...
Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents) Curtis Bunn 9781593094294 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. If you thought Las Vegas was where “what happens” stays, you have not been to homecom...
Migrated Writers
Migrated Writers Troy Johnson Article 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 C...
Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend Charlotte North Carolina The first Author Awards were presented in 1992 as a small event held in Brooklyn, New York to recognize those authors and publishe...
Samois (Nubian Underworld)
Samois (Nubian Underworld) Shakir Rashaan 9780998664088 Fiction Shakir Rashaan Shakir Rashaan "If you thought Ramesses was the only one capable of making big things happen, you’ve got another thing co...
Room In My Heart
Room In My Heart Zetta Elliott 9781500908232 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press t took some time for Nikki to adjust to her parents’ divorce, but now she and her little sister Natalie enjoy their new...
John Strausbaugh
John Strausbaugh 0000000067554770 John Strausbaugh, born in 1951, is a renowned author and cultural commentator. Known for his authority on New York City's history, he also hosts The New York Times' ...
Jay-Z
Jay-Z 0000000118335528 Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, born December 4, 1969, is a highly influential rapper with a net worth over $1B. He founded Roc Nation, an entertainment company launching a new publishin...
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman MULTIPLE Brenda Jones, renowned for her 15-year role as communications director for Rep. John Lewis and co-author of an NAACP award-winning book, has vast experience ...
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...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal)
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal) D 9781933354163 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "There’s a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he’s one to watch…Urban libraries have to get Got."—Lib...
Legacy Lit
Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group Led by Krishan Trotman Legacy Lit is the first imprint focused on work by writers of color at Hachette Book Group.
Steamy Lit Con
Steamy Lit Con Anaheim Marriott Anaheim California Their goal is to celebrate the romance genre and to amplify the identities in it which have been historically underrepresented. The Steamy Lit Con ai...
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...
Urban Lit Review Magazine
Urban Lit Review Magazine Troy Johnson Article Urban Lit Review Magazine Related Links
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...
Lit Java
Lit Java Pearland TX Using coffee and books to connect the community to ‘LIT’erary experiences!
Liberation is Lit
Liberation is Lit Columbia SC Liberation is Lit is a bookstore that aims to spark collective action for liberation and community building among readers and book lovers by promoting stories from inters...
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game Debra Owsley litversations Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published To buy this game, please visit the creator’s website “Hello My name is...
The Sistahs On Lit Book Festival
The Sistahs On Lit Book Festival The Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza Sliver Spring Maryland Sistahs On Lit was founded in 2012 as a promoting business for Author’s books. After me...
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Stacy Spikes 9781496739575 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. At the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-wi...
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider
Black Founder: The Hidden Power of Being an Outsider Stacy Spikes 9781496739568 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. At the intersection of power, technology, and race, Stacy Spikes, award-wi...
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience
HBCU Made: A Celebration of the Black College Experience Ayesha Rascoe 9781643753867 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Edited by NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday host Ayesha Rascoe, ...
Lisa Renee Johnson
Lisa Renee Johnson NONE Lisa Renee Johnson, Sunshineologist and publishing coach, inspires individuals to shine in life and business. Co-founder of Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club and CEO of Br...
Stacy Spikes
Stacy Spikes NONE Stacy Spikes, co-founder of MoviePass and founder of Urbanworld Film Festival, is an award-winning entrepreneur and former film marketing executive. Recognized as one of the most in...
Rise to the Sun
Rise to the Sun Leah Johnson 9781338662238 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to ...
His Biggest Fan
His Biggest Fan Martha Kennerson B07MTLXTX4 Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Dr. Tonya Banks spent her life focusing on her career and developing her craft. She followed a...
Early Sunday Morning
Early Sunday Morning Denene Millner 9781572842113 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Early Sunday Morning, a picture book for young children ages 4 to 9, is the first offering from ...
Nikki Woods
Nikki Woods NONE Nikki Woods is a multi-media personality, personal branding coach, and CEO of Nikki Woods Media. As senior producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, she reaches over 8 million listen...
Living Separate Lives
Living Separate Lives Paulette Harper 9780989969109 Fiction Thy Word Publishing Thy Word Publishing Four Friends, One Secret and The Weekend That Changed Their Destiny Candace Walker, Kaylan Smith, Jo...
T. D. Jakes
T. D. Jakes 0000000383058082 Bishop T.D. Jakes is the founder of The Potter’s House, a 30,000-member church and global humanitarian organization. Known for his best-selling books, he's recognized as ...
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...
Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel
Judy Tyrus and Paul Novosel MULTIPLE Judy Tyrus, a former principal ballerina with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Oakland Ballet, now serves as a dance industry consultant and co-founder of ChromaDi...
Sharon Lucas Describes the 2018 Black Authors & Readers Rock Weekend
Sharon Lucas Describes the 2018 Black Authors & Readers Rock Weekend Author Interviews
This Close to Okay
This Close to Okay Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538715376 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller” comes a cathartic nove...
Every Other Weekend/Straight Talk to Divorced Men Who Love Their Children, but No Longer Live With Them
Every Other Weekend/Straight Talk to Divorced Men Who Love Their Children, but No Longer Live With Them Kenneth Parker and Van Jones 9780840778031 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Pu...
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...
Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm
Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm NONE Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm is a celebrated writer, playwright, and founder of Candace Magazine. She's received awards including the National Black Women Achievement Awards a...
Patrice Caldwell
Patrice Caldwell NONE Patrice Caldwell, a Wellesley College alumna, is the founder of People of Color in Publishing. She's an ex-children's book editor, current literary agent, and author, known for ...
The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire
The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire Dana Bari 9798999868909 Fiction AscendED AscendED Sixty-year-old Frederick “Rick” Thompson has spent a lifetime drifting from one situationship to anot...
Grandpa’s Cabin Coloring & Lookbook: Collector’s Edition: Hardcover (Collector’s)
Grandpa’s Cabin Coloring & Lookbook: Collector’s Edition: Hardcover (Collector’s) Ross Victory 9798218175450 Nonfiction J. Ross Victory J. Ross Victory Get the full Grandpa’s Cabin experience by addin...
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2000
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2000 Troy Johnson Article THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE CONFERENCE 2000 "THE LEGACY LIVES O...
Grandpa’s Cabin: Book 1
Grandpa’s Cabin: Book 1 Ross Victory 9798218017897 Fiction VFTC Universe VFTC Universe At eighty-four years old, widower and award-winning geneticist Bernie Crenshaw has reached the end of his life. B...
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta James Hannaham 9780316285278 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Lambda Literary ...
The Scrumptious Life of Azaleah Lane
The Scrumptious Life of Azaleah Lane Nikki Shannon Smith 9781515844662 Fiction Picture Window Books Capstone Press Mama and Daddy are heading out of town, which means Azaleah and her sisters get to sp...
The Camping Trip
The Camping Trip Jennifer K. Mann 9781536207361 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Ernestine has never been camping before, but she’s sure it will be lots of fun … won’t it? An endearing story ...
The Crazy Bunch
The Crazy Bunch Willie Perdomo 9780143132691 Poetry PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of ...
The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels Luís Alberto Urrea 9780316154888 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group The quintessential story of what it means to be the first generation to live two lives...
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide Nationwide
Hollington Homecoming, Volume One: RSVP with LoveTeach Me Tonight
Hollington Homecoming, Volume One: RSVP with LoveTeach Me Tonight Sandra Kitt and Jacquelin Thomas 9780373091317 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Ten years. Eight grads...
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Pearl Cleage 9780345490278 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power...
You Know Better: A Novel
You Know Better: A Novel Tina McElroy Ansa 9780060197797 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins It is the spring weekend of the Peach Blossom Festival in the tiny middle Georgia town of Mulberry, but th...
Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe NONE Ayesha Rascoe, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday and Up First's Saturday episodes, is a former White House correspondent who covered three presidential administrations. Prior to...
Black Orchid Lit. Agency
Black Orchid Lit. Agency Troy Johnson Article Black Orchid Literary Agency http://www.flashtech.net/bola/ 820 Lamar Street Cleveland, TX 77327 William E. Wright, President &...
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...
Krishan Trotman
Krishan Trotman NONE Krishan Trotman is Vice President and Publisher of Legacy Lit, the Hachette Book Group imprint she launched in 2020 to publish narrative nonfiction, fiction, and mission-driven ...
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Sondra Kathryn Wilson NONE Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson was a senior associate at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, and executor of Johnson’s literary e...
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group Aspect Back Bay Books Balance Black Dog & Leventhal Bold Type Books Center Street Christy Ottaviano Books Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette Civitas ...
Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor
Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor NONE Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor is a Washington DC-based cultural communications specialist and author. She founded the National Black Cultural Information Trust, using...
Alice’s Musical Debut
Alice’s Musical Debut DuEwa M. Frazier 9781539945550 Fiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Alice’s Musical Debut reimagines one day in the childhood of notable jazz pianist, harpist, and o...
Deanne In The Middle
Deanne In The Middle DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905290 Fiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing What would you do if you were caught in the middle? 14 year-old Deanne T. Summers knows that start...
Goddess Under The Bridge Poems
Goddess Under The Bridge Poems DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905283 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing From the award nominated poet and author of Shedding Light From My Journeys, Stardust Tra...
Shedding Light From My Journeys
Shedding Light From My Journeys DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905269 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Shedding Light from My Journeys is a volume of poetry which reveals the passionate and i...
Ten Marbles And A Bag To Put Them In: Poems For Children
Ten Marbles And A Bag To Put Them In: Poems For Children DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905245 Nonfiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Ten Marbles is a collection of poems for children. The poe...
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905238 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding...
Stardust Tracks on a Road
Stardust Tracks on a Road DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905221 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Stardust Tracks is a classic literary offering, from a young writer with an old, traveling sou...
Forbidden Distraction & Forbidden Attraction: A Bachelor of Shell Cove / Fiery Fairytales Crossover Novella
Forbidden Distraction & Forbidden Attraction: A Bachelor of Shell Cove / Fiery Fairytales Crossover Novella Siera London 9780986424380 Fiction Katrina Pringle Katrina Pringle Forbidden Distraction, Bo...
The Lit Bit Celebrates Women’s History Month
The Lit Bit Celebrates Women’s History Month Charisse Carney-Nunes Article Welcome to Women’s History Month! So often we African Americans complain that the preceding month of February, Bla...
Noel Hankin
Noel Hankin NONE Noel Hankin, founder of The Best of Friends, Inc., pioneered disco nightlife in NYC, paving the way for the disco explosion of the '70s. A retired executive from Moët Hennessy USA a...
Wade Nobles
Wade Nobles 0000000082420463 Dr. Wade W. Nobles is a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University and founder of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family, Life and Culture, Inc. A...
Tyriek White
Tyriek White 0000000517767141 Tyriek Rashawn White, a Brooklyn-based writer, musician, and educator, serves marginalized communities and leads Lampblack Lit, a literary foundation for Black writers. ...
Robert Liu-Trujillo
Robert Liu-Trujillo NONE Robert Liu-Trujillo is a California-based author and illustrator, co-founder of The Trust Your Struggle Collective and founder of Come Bien Books. He uses his art to tell cul...
Paulette Harper
Paulette Harper NONE Paulette Harper, an award-winning author and founder of WNL Coaching and Marketing Services, is an ordained Pastor and renowned inspirational speaker. She empowers women through ...
Monique Greenwood, Lynda Johnson, and Tracy Mitchell-Brown
Monique Greenwood, Lynda Johnson, and Tracy Mitchell-Brown MULTIPLE "Evalyn Hamilton, Lynda Johnson, and Monique Greenwood are key members of Go On Girl! Book Club. Hamilton is the Newsletter Editor,...
Marisa Renee Lee
Marisa Renee Lee NONE Marisa Renee Lee is a rabble-rouser of social healing: a former appointee in the Obama White House; managing director of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance; co-founder of the di...
J.M. Benjamin
J.M. Benjamin NONE Allow me to introduce you to one of the hardest working hustlers in urban lit: J.M. Benjamin J.M. Benjamin is a successful, powerful and impacting ...
Barbara A. Robinson
Barbara A. Robinson NONE Barbara A. Robinson is a multi-faceted individual; an author, businesswoman, and educator. She served the 40th legislative district in the Maryland Senate for 13 years and is...
Richard Jeanty
Richard Jeanty NONE Richard Jeanty is a nationally bestselling author and the founder of RJ Publications, a leading independent publishing house focused on Black literature. As an author, Jeanty has...
Roc Lit 101
Roc Lit 101 Penguin Random House Bertelsmann Founded by Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, December 2020 “Our aspiration for the imprint is to create books that draw from the best of pop cultur...
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Various Venues New York New York 4 Days. 40+ Events. 140+ Authors from 40+ Countries Also Co-Host of the Indie Lit Fair, which will take place Sa...
O Sinners!
O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 9780593597446 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a griev...
Baltimore City Lit Festival
Baltimore City Lit Festival Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore Maryland Baltimore’s award-winning annual festival of all things literary takes place each spring, and remains one of CityLit...
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...
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...
The Furrows
The Furrows Namwali Serpell 9780593448915 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author...
Wahida Clark the Official Queen of Street Lit
Wahida Clark the Official Queen of Street Lit Author Interviews
DC Bookdiva "Urban Lit At Its Realest!"
DC Bookdiva "Urban Lit At Its Realest!" Book Spotlights