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Community Conversation: Black Books in the Age of the Coronavirus
Community Conversation: Black Books in the Age of the Coronavirus Book Spotlights
June Almeida, Virus Detective!: The Woman Who Discovered the First Human Coronavirus
June Almeida, Virus Detective!: The Woman Who Discovered the First Human Coronavirus Karyn Parsons 9781534111325 Nonfiction Sleeping Bear Press Sleeping Bear Press From an early age in Glasgow, Scotla...
Linda Gaston-Bessellieu
Linda Gaston-Bessellieu NONE Linda Gaston-Bessellieu, a retired teacher with 30 years in NYC & State school systems, co-authors with her daughter, Tawana Bessellieu, a preschool teacher. They share a...
Conversation with the Mann
Conversation with the Mann Thumper Book Review Not since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has a first person narrative novel struck me with such a poignant sense of completeness and satisfaction a...
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...
Why?: A Conversation about Race
Why?: A Conversation about Race Taye Diggs 9781250806093 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A conversation about race. Daddy?Yes, my sweet boy.Why are those people shouting?Our people are s...
The Conversation
The Conversation Kam Williams Book Review ’One of the things I’ve heard a lot from young brothers and sisters during my recent travels is ’I want a woman like Mich...
The Vain Conversation
The Vain Conversation Anthony Grooms 9781611178821 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 194...
Constance Banks
Constance Banks NONE Constance Banks is a motivational author with over 20 years of experience in youth ministry. Her latest book, “A Conversation with My Mother about Sex, Boys, and How She Married ...
The Conversation: How Black Men And Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships
The Conversation: How Black Men And Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships Hill Harper 9781592404759 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House In his first book for adults, New York Times bestsell...
Financial Advice During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Financial Advice During the Covid-19 Pandemic Lynnette Khalfani-Cox Article The COVID-19 outbreak is disproportionately impacting African-Americans, from a public health standpoint and from an econom...
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy Tricia Rose 9780312423728 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press-3PL Macmillan Publishers "A powerful and pioneering work. For the first time we h...
Particle and Wave: A Conversation
Particle and Wave: A Conversation Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781737025504 Nonfiction 53rd State Press 53rd State Press In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and a...
The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights
The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate That Shaped the Course of Civil Rights Thomas Aiello 9781440843570 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood ...
Charlamagne Tha God
Charlamagne Tha God 0000000486501489 Charlamagne Tha God, born Lenard McKelvey, is a renowned media personality and co-host of The Breakfast Club radio show and Brilliant Idiots podcast. He's also a ...
Lee Hawkins
Lee Hawkins NONE Lee Hawkins is a 2023-2024 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at The Carter Center and was named the Josephine Albright Fellow by the 2024 Alicia Patterson Foundatio...
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide Steven W. Thrasher 9781250796646 Nonfiction Celadon Books Macmillan Publishers Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/John Kenneth Galbrai...
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States Erika Lee 9781541672604 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books This definitive history of American xenophobia is "essential reading fo...
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe Clifford V. Johnson 9780262536080 Fiction MIT Press The MIT Press A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects tha...
Just Us: An American Conversation
Just Us: An American Conversation Claudia Rankine 9781644450215 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation—Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday ...
Lessons from a Gathering of Men: How Men’s Work Is Redefining Masculinity and Improving Men’s Lives
Lessons from a Gathering of Men: How Men’s Work Is Redefining Masculinity and Improving Men’s Lives Michael Taylor 9780996948722 Nonfiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group What wou...
A New Conversation With Men
A New Conversation With Men Michael Taylor 9780964189423 Nonfiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group A New Conversation With Men is a book written to empower men to reach their full...
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...
My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style
My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace, and Style La Verne Ford Wimberly 9781400237746 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing After posting selfies in her Sunday best for fi...
Tales of Detective Super Skunk Saving America: Saving America
Tales of Detective Super Skunk Saving America: Saving America Barbara J. Satterfield 9780974871592 Fiction Vision Harmony Vision Harmony Detective Super Skunk takes on COVID-19 in Tales of Detective S...
Covid, Mayhem and Murder: A Headhunters Christmas
Covid, Mayhem and Murder: A Headhunters Christmas Wahida Clark 9781954161146 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC MARCO IS A HUSTLER’S HUSTLER. Loyalty proves more than a wor...
My Protest
My Protest Linda Gaston-Bessellieu 9781664128200 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions Go on a journey with Jaliyah as she explains what her experience was like during a recent peaceful protest and how ...
We The People
We The People Christopher M. Rutledge 9798652807276 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published A Resistance Faction of Antiheroes Rescue Fascist America The year is 2024, Chicago. Most of...
Emergency Alert: An Immersive Novel
Emergency Alert: An Immersive Novel O.W. Showe 9781792337888 Fiction Madinah Slaise Madinah Slaise In December 2018 my husband and I devised a wacky plan to live in southeast Asia for a year or so. Wi...
Edwin Raymond with Jon Sternfeld
Edwin Raymond with Jon Sternfeld MULTIPLE Edwin Raymond, a fifteen-year veteran of the New York Police Department, is one of the nation’s leading voices on criminal justice reform. He has received n...
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa Excerpt Chapter 1 An Ordinary Day “It’s Memorial Day. Y&rsq...
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era Quintard Taylor 9780295750415 Nonfiction University of Washington Press University of Washington Pre...
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...
Age of Aquarius: Spiritual Reckoning
Age of Aquarius: Spiritual Reckoning Melinda Merritt 9781641519717 Fiction LitFire Publishing LitFire Publishing This book is a discussion on the Age of Aquarius that has arrived within the past few y...
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Ice Age: Continental Drift Kam Williams ice-age-4-moive-poster.jpg Film Review A Frenetic Animated Adventure Strictly for Tykes Ice Age: Continental Drift [2012] In Theaters: Jul 13, 2012 Wide Rat...
The Talk
The Talk Alicia D. Williams 9781534495296 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. As a little boy grows into a bigger boy, ready to take on the world, he first must have that very...
Whole Brother: Debunking the Myths That Break the Black Family
Whole Brother: Debunking the Myths That Break the Black Family Maliek Blade 9781952602030 Nonfiction Renown Publishing Renown Publishing Black excellence is achieved when we first remedy Black shortco...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
The Beloved Community
The Beloved Community Patricia Spears Jones 9781556596667 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Dedicated to friends, fellow artists, and resilient working people, The Beloved Community sees ...
Eat Your Age: Feel Younger, Be Happier, Live Longer
Eat Your Age: Feel Younger, Be Happier, Live Longer Ian K. Smith 9780063383555 Nonfiction Harvest HarperCollins From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Ian K. Smith, learn how to defy the effect...
Brett T. Brown
Brett T. Brown NONE Brett Tyler Brown, born in 1997, is a talented self-taught artist inspired by Chicago's architecture. His passion for art extends to architecture, animation, and writing. He wrote...
A Conversation with Diane Richards about Her Debut Novel <em>Ella</em>
A Conversation with Diane Richards about Her Debut Novel Ella AALBC Staff Writer Interview What inspired you to write a novel about Ella Fitzgerald? What drew you to her life and music as a subje...
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time
White Boy/Black Girl: What Our Differences Can Teach Us, One Honest Conversation at a Time Adaeze and Chad Brinkman 9781496474933 Nonfiction Tyndale Momentum Tyndale House Adaeze and Chad—two differen...
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience Tarana Burke and Brene Brown 9780593243626 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &bu...
VL Towler: A Conversation About Writing and Literary Fiction
VL Towler: A Conversation About Writing and Literary Fiction Jay Lemming Interview
A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community
A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community Adam Russell Taylor 9781506464534 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation...
Black Wall Street: The Spirit of Community
Black Wall Street: The Spirit of Community LaQuitta Barnes 9781736940617 Fiction Our History Told Our History Told It is the year 1921, and at the intersection of Greenwood and Archer, stands the icon...
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You Adam Mansbach 9781617759833 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Celebrating a decade of...
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker 9780471375265 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with b...
Thank You, Omu!
Thank You, Omu! Neoma Nwasike Book Review How important is community to you? Is it at the epicenter of your heart, and do the people who make up your unique and wonderful community, allow you to thri...
Historically Black Phrases: From “I Ain’t One of Your Lil’ Friends” to “Who All Gon’ Be There?”
Historically Black Phrases: From “I Ain’t One of Your Lil’ Friends” to “Who All Gon’ Be There?” jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson 9781984861719 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House Play th...
A Conversation with the Mann
A Conversation with the Mann John Ridley 9780446690751 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group An evocative novel of an aspiring black comics rise to near-fame and fortune during the Rat Pack era, by...
To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight Terrance Hayes 9781940696614 Nonfiction Wave Books Wave Books In these works based on his Bagl...
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion Antwaun Sargent 9781597114684 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books In The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion, curat...
Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil’s Excellent Bromance
Cosmos Confidential: Bill & Neil’s Excellent Bromance Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Shatner B0G7L5C6FR Nonfiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing Experience an unscripted conversation be...
The White Card: A Play
The White Card: A Play Claudia Rankine 9781555978396 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenT...
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250199416 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A ...
We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto
We Can Overcome: An American Black Conservative Manifesto Allen Bernard West 9781612544335 Nonfiction Brown Books Publishing Group Brown Books Publishing Group Something has happened to the black comm...
K.E. Lewis
K.E. Lewis NONE K.E. Lewis was raised in Bishopville, SC, where the weather is hot and the accent thick, K.E. grew up in a community that was a haven, rich in generosity and Blackness, much like the...
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future George Yancy 9781538176429 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Award-winning author, scholar, and social visio...
Ed Gordon
Ed Gordon 0000000045843168 Ed Gordon is an esteemed journalist with a career spanning various TV networks like BET, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS. Known for hosting shows like Conversation with Ed Gordon, BET ...
Social Media Conversation with Two Successful Webmasters
Social Media Conversation with Two Successful Webmasters Troy Johnson Article Here Ron Kavanaugh, founder of Mosaicbooks.com and I, founder of AALBC.com, speak with Darryl J. Jenkins (my cousin) ...
Justin Phillip Reed
Justin Phillip Reed 0000000497688533 Justin Phillip Reed is a South Carolina-born author, known for his work in various publications and his MFA in poetry from Washington University. Recognized for h...
The War On Us
The War On Us Black Barbie 9781980273479 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published We all go through life trying to survive under various circumstances, due to corrupt situations. Living...
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World Robert Fleming Book Review It’s always beneficial to understand how learned minds, from abroad, view our current world wit...
Linda Dominique Grosvenor
Linda Dominique Grosvenor NONE Linda Dominique Grosvenor-Holland, a New York-born author with Caribbean roots, is known for her impactful writing on life, love, and family. Her novel, “Like Boogie On...
Strong Black Girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image
Strong Black Girls: Reclaiming Schools in Their Own Image Danielle Apugo, Lynnette Mawhinney, and Afiya Mbilishaka 9780807764527 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College Strong Black Girls ...
Information Age Publishing
Information Age Publishing Information Age Publishing Information Age Publishing
Information Age Publishing
Information Age Publishing Information Age Publishing Information Age Publishing
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...
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim 9780525619796 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode ...
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free Tabitha Brown 9780063286115 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins New York Times Bestseller “America’s Mom” Tabitha Brown presents an inspiration...
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9780231185479 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press What does it mean t...
Debra Owsley Creator of LitVersation The Book Conversation Game
Debra Owsley Creator of LitVersation The Book Conversation Game Book Spotlights
Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path To Peace
Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path To Peace Patricia Raybon and Alana Raybon 9780529113054 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing "Mom, I have somethin...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781612194806 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a ...
A Conversation with Howard Zinn and Walter Mosley
A Conversation with Howard Zinn and Walter Mosley Author Interviews
Social Media Conversation with Two Successful Webmasters
Social Media Conversation with Two Successful Webmasters Author Interviews
Analytixz 20 Years Of Conversation And Enter Views With Public Enemy’s Professor Griff
Analytixz 20 Years Of Conversation And Enter Views With Public Enemy’s Professor Griff Professor Griff 9780977124213 Fiction Heirz to the Shah and RATHSI Publishing Heirz to the Shah and RATHSI Publis...
A Conversation with Howard Zinn and Walter Mosley
A Conversation with Howard Zinn and Walter Mosley Troy Johnson Article
Asiya Wadud
Asiya Wadud NONE Asiya Wadud is a Brooklyn-based author and third-grade teacher. She instructs poetry at Saint Ann’s School and facilitates an English conversation class for new immigrants at the Bro...
Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee 0000000049531591 ` Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, author, and expert in human communication. Known for her work on NPR and American Public Media, she advises on racial...
Kim Chakanetsa
Kim Chakanetsa 0000000511632457 Kim Chakanetsa is an acclaimed Zimbabwean journalist with BBC World Service after stints at CNN and Associated Press. She hosts “The Conversation,” a show uniting wome...
Jawanza Kunjufu
Jawanza Kunjufu NONE AALBC Mourns the Passing of Jawanza Kunjufu Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu is an educational consultant and prolific author specializing in African-American issues. Known for his dynamic lec...
Daryle Jenkins - Interview, Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama
Daryle Jenkins - Interview, Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama Kam Williams Interview Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama ...
Lunchtime Chat with Pamala McCoy
Lunchtime Chat with Pamala McCoy Ida Walker Interview Managing BONA5D full-time gives Pamala the opportunity to help individuals navigate their financial woes through a struggling economy to reach a ...
No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience
No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience Brad R. Braxton 9780814659489 Nonfiction Liturgical Press Liturgical Press No Longer Slaves brings the ancient New Testament message into co...
Living Water
Living Water Paige Turner Book Review The Woman at the Well is a well-known bible story that almost begs for deeper examination. Her conversation with Jesus, and His promise of "living wa...
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama Sophia Nelson 9781935618942 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books Stereotypes aren’t funny when they...
I Am Because We Are: A Celebration of Community and Ubuntu
I Am Because We Are: A Celebration of Community and Ubuntu Allison Matulli 9781368099103 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Grounded in African Ubuntu Philosophy, This Lyrical Picture...
Ogun Ye!: Protecting the Afrikan Family and Community
Ogun Ye!: Protecting the Afrikan Family and Community Balogun Ojetade 9781984998293 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ogun – the Spirit of Iron, War and Technology – is often seen as a viol...
A Snap Shot-Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Arts Funding
A Snap Shot-Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Arts Funding Sonia Manjon and Marta Moreno Vega 9781494474225 Nonfiction CreateSpace ...
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope bell hooks 9780415968188 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr...
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope bell hooks 9780415968171 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr...
Tonja Myles
Tonja Myles NONE Tonja Myles, an ordained minister and community activist, uses her own experiences as an addict and abuse survivor to promote mental wellness and recovery. As a certified peer suppor...
Robin Walker
Robin Walker 000000006356551X Robin Walker is a London-born author and editor known for his work on Black history and culture. He co-edited the influential Black Community Reports and authored books ...
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems Anastacia-Reneé 9780063221710 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist ...
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope Esau McCaulley 9780830854868 Nonfiction IVP Academic InterVarsity Press Christian Book Award® program Foreword...
God Don’t Like Ugly
God Don’t Like Ugly Thumper Book Review "I was hoping when I started God don't Like Ugly that it wasn't the typical girl-coming-of-age story. Alongside you-go-girl books, girl-coming-of...
The World According to Fannie Davis
The World According to Fannie Davis Tony Lindsay Book Review The World According to Fannie Davis is the story of a Black woman who became a numbers’ banker, which was a miraculous accomplishmen...