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Developmental Psychology of the Black Child
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child Amos N. Wilson 9780686241836 Nonfiction Africana Research Publications Africana Research Publications Are Black and White Children the same? Are ...
Erica Martin
Erica Martin NONE Ericica Martin, a freelance editor specializing in copyediting and developmental editing, is also a poet. Author of her first book “And We Rise”, she lives in Tennessee and holds a ...
Yasmin Angoe
Yasmin Angoe NONE Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American writer and editor from Northern Virginia. An experienced teacher and instructional coach, Yasmin also freelances as a developmen...
Rhonda McKnight
Rhonda McKnight NONE Rhonda McKnight, owner of Legacy Editing and Urban Christian Fiction Today, is a dedicated fiction writer and editor based in Atlanta. Originating from New Jersey, her passion li...
Editing Services
Editing Services Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com's Manuscript Editing Service http://www.aalbc.com/writers/manuscript_review.html EyeEdit Editorial Services https://bit.ly/eyeedit Jazzy Pen ...
EyeEdit -- Editorial Services
EyeEdit -- Editorial Services Troy Johnson Article EyeEdit is a Black owned and operated online company established to provide editing, proofreading and writing services. Our clien...
Jazzy Pen Communications
Jazzy Pen Communications Troy Johnson Article Jazzy Pen Communications provides a wide range of professional editing services. For literary clients, Jazzy Pen specializes in African American...
Shaundale Rénā
Shaundale Rénā NONE Shaundale Rénā is an award-winning literary professional with over a decade of editing experience. She has six international awards and has worked in various genres. Known for enh...
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones 0000000034178764 Born in Atlanta, GA in 1970, Tayari Jones is an accomplished author and educator. After obtaining her Masters from the University of Iowa, she taught Developmental Readi...
Zetta Brown
Zetta Brown NONE Zetta Brown, owner of the successful L-L Publications based in Scotland, boasts an impressive portfolio including acclaimed books and a sister imprint, Logical-Lust. Also a Developme...
Eryka Parker
Eryka Parker NONE Eryka is the moderator of AALBC’s Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines book club. Eryka Parker is an award-winning book coach and developmental editor who assists diverse writers in storyt...
Our Differences Make Us Stronger: How We Heal Together
Our Differences Make Us Stronger: How We Heal Together La June Montgomery Tabron 9781633311039 Fiction Disruption Books Disruption Books A story about sharing our identities and making new friends...
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...
Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging Across Differences
Inclusive Conversations: Fostering Equity, Empathy, and Belonging Across Differences Mary-Frances Winters 9781523088805 Nonfiction Berrett-Koehler Publishers Berrett-Koehler Publishers What is impress...
Marketing Solutions
Marketing Solutions Troy Johnson Article a E D I T I N G S O L U T I O N S b E N S U R E S Y O U R S U C C E S S � Editing, Consultation and Coaching Allow Your Work to Reach I...
Pedagogical Imagination: Volume II: Using the Master’s Tools to Inform Conceptual Leadership, Engaged Scholarship and Social Action
Pedagogical Imagination: Volume II: Using the Master’s Tools to Inform Conceptual Leadership, Engaged Scholarship and Social Action Edmund W. Gordon 9780883783405 Nonfiction Third World Press Third Wo...
Pedagogical Imagination, Volume I: A Conceptual Memoir: Using the Master’s Tools to Change the Subject of the Debate
Pedagogical Imagination, Volume I: A Conceptual Memoir: Using the Master’s Tools to Change the Subject of the Debate Edmund W. Gordon 9780883783399 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press With ...
Janice Pernell
Janice Pernell NONE Janice Pernell, a prestigious editor for multiple bestsellers, transitioned into writing with her debut in “Baring It All: The Ins and Outs of Publishing” and her first fiction “N...
Hurrah’s Nest (Cedar Tick Natural History Chapbook)
Hurrah’s Nest (Cedar Tick Natural History Chapbook) Arisa White 9780944048016 Nonfiction Virtual Artists Collective Virtual Artists Collective A vivid and varied collection that addresses family loy...
Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit
Josey Johnson’s Hair and the Holy Spirit Esau McCaulley 9781514003572 Fiction IVP Kids InterVarsity Press Jerry Pinkney Children’s Book Award When Josey wonders why people are so different, Dad hel...
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Wealth, Poverty and Politics Thomas Sowell 9780465096763 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examin...
Church Folks vs. Christians: Do You See the Difference?
Church Folks vs. Christians: Do You See the Difference? Michelle Coleman-Bernard 9781482048056 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Week after week, Sunday after Sunday, churches are occupi...
Differences: Sibling Rivalry Is Bad... But It’s Worse When There’s Money Involved
Differences: Sibling Rivalry Is Bad... But It’s Worse When There’s Money Involved Brian W. Smith 9780984090495 Nonfiction Hollygrove Publishing Hollygrove Publishing A wealthy man dies and leaves his ...
Ida Green
Ida Green NONE Dr. Ida Greene, Ph.D., is a renowned author and inspirational speaker. She founded People Skills International and Our Place to promote self-esteem and empowerment. The organizations o...
Reshonda Tate Billingsley Recommends Edit 1st Manuscript Editing Service
Reshonda Tate Billingsley Recommends Edit 1st Manuscript Editing Service Author Interviews
The importance of copy editing your promotional materials
The importance of copy editing your promotional materials Author Interviews
Musings on AALBC.com
Musings on AALBC.com Troy Johnson Article Blogs...and I'm averaging about one post a month. One thing I've learned is that blogs take time -- it you are short on time don't bother.It is not that I'm ...
Edit1st.com: AALBC.com's Manuscript Editing Service
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Carol Taylor
Carol Taylor 0000000113419810 Carol Taylor, a seasoned book editor & writer with over 20 years in the industry, has worked with prominent black authors. Featured in notable publications & TV, she has...
Tamara Mayo
Tamara Mayo NONE Tamara Mayo, a Virginia-native author, developed her love for reading at a young age. She moved to California at 19, where she pursued a writing career including ghostwriting and edi...
Iambia Media
Iambia Media Troy Johnson Article Iambia Media, Inc Meeting All Your Literary Needs Iambia Media, Inc. is dedicated to promoting new and established authors. We provide public relations ...
Dare To Struggle! Dare To Win! (1981-2010): A Personal Memoir: Khalid Raheem: Memoirs of Struggle and Resistance
Dare To Struggle! Dare To Win! (1981-2010): A Personal Memoir: Khalid Raheem: Memoirs of Struggle and Resistance Khalid Raheem 9781070147413 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published ...
Defeating Isis: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe
Defeating Isis: Who They Are, How They Fight, What They Believe Malcolm Nance 9781510729735 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing A New York Times bestseller! This reference shows how ...
The New Face of Disabilities
The New Face of Disabilities Melica Niccole 9780982874554 Nonfiction Hampton Publishing House Hampton Publishing House The face of those with a disability is ever changing, making it more and more cha...
AFRICA MUST UNITE
AFRICA MUST UNITE Kwame Nkrumah 9780901787033 Nonfiction Panaf Books Panaf Books This book, by a great PanAfricanist leader, sets out the case for the total liberation and unification of Africa. It is...
The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives
The Purpose of Boys: Helping Our Sons Find Meaning, Significance, and Direction in Their Lives Michael Gurian 9780470401828 Nonfiction Jossey-Bass Wiley The final and conclusive book in the groundbrea...
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s Lerone Bennett 9780140175684 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House What forces transformed Africans in...
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...
Julian English
Julian English NONE Born prematurely with brain damage, Julian English defied odds by learning differently. His mother, Natasha Moulton-Levy, used travel to educate him, enabling Julian to understand...
Simone A. James Alexander
Simone A. James Alexander 0000000109111143 Simone A. James Alexander is a distinguished professor, author, and researcher. Born in Guyana, she studied in Guyana, Russia, and the US, earning degrees i...
Evandra Catherine
Evandra Catherine NONE Dr. Evandra Catherine is the lead consultant at EC Consulting Group, where she supports infant and early childhood mental health professionals, leaders, and systems in engagin...
Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President
Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President Kam Williams Book Review "This book is about Obama's narrative truth—his cultural upbringing, narrative psychol...
Linsanity
Linsanity Kam Williams linsanity.jpg Film Review Linsanity In Theaters: Oct 4, 2013 Limited Rated: PG Running time: 1 hr. 28 min. In English and Mandarin with subtitles Distributor: Ketchup ...
Twins, But Different
Twins, But Different Porsche Thomas 9780593813089 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Model and mother to twin boys, Porsche Thomas presents this Step 2 leveled reader ab...
Emancipation
Emancipation Michael R. Lane 9780971645349 Fiction Bare Bones Press Bare Bones Press Emancipation is a compelling compilation of stories focusing on a broad cross-section of individuals. Gratey Johnso...
One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being More Alike Than Different
One Big Heart: A Celebration of Being More Alike Than Different Linsey Davis 9780310767855 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Linsey Davis, Emmy-winning correspondent for ABC News, ...
Mixed Like Me
Mixed Like Me Gina Golliday-Cabell 9781469983165 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With the prevalence of blended racial and cultural differences in our society, children of various ethnic ...
Understanding Black Male Learning Styles
Understanding Black Male Learning Styles Jawanza Kunjufu 9781934155387 Nonfiction African American Images African American Images Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this...
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Economic Facts and Fallacies Thomas Sowell 9780465003495 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so ...
One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City
One Hundred Jobs: A Panorama of Work in the American City Ron Howell 9781565844308 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Using New York City as a microcosm of the American economy, One Hundred Jobs p...
Clothilde Ewing
Clothilde Ewing NONE Clothilde “Clo” Ewing, a former journalist and TV producer, is now a dedicated writer aiming to inspire adults to rediscover their childlike wonder. A proud Syracuse University l...
IDOLeyes
IDOLeyes Idrissa Uqdah Book Review A Singer’s Life Changing American Idol Experience Mandisa Hundley may well go down in history as the most talked about American Idol participant who di...
LITTLE BLACK BOOK SERIES – Indexicality | Book #1
LITTLE BLACK BOOK SERIES – Indexicality | Book #1 Molefi Kete Asante 9781942774501 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Indexicality: An Africological Method of Inquiry...
Every Where Alien
Every Where Alien Brad Walrond 9780063377998 Poetry Moore Black Press/Amistad HarperCollins “Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding… . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic bo...
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson Claudia Rankine, Sampada Aranke, and Akili Tommasino 9781838663261 Nonfiction Phaidon Press Phaidon Press ‘Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.’ — New York Times The most co...
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue
Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems 9781636810454 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books A visual and conceptual conversation between two leading US photo-ar...
Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History
Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History Leslie M. Alexander 9780810144736 Nonfiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press This transformative collecti...
Cecilia Vicuna About to Happen
Cecilia Vicuna About to Happen Cecilia Vicuna 9781938221231 Nonfiction Siglio Press Siglio Press A new edition of artist-poet Cecilia Vicuña’s artist’s book on the politics of the sea Beginn...
A Beautiful Composition of Broken
A Beautiful Composition of Broken r.h. Sin 9781449490164 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing r.h. Sin, bestselling author of the Whiskey, Words & a Shovel series, returns with a...
Gizo-Gizo: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon 2016
Gizo-Gizo: A Tale from the Zongo Lagoon 2016 Emily Williamson 9789988860325 Fiction African Books Collective African Books Collective In Hausa culture, you always begin telling a story in the same way...
Mobile and Entangled America(s)
Mobile and Entangled America(s) Maryemma Graham 9781472471925 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an importan...
School-Based Assessment in a Caribbean Public Examination
School-Based Assessment in a Caribbean Public Examination Stafford A. Griffith 9789766405540 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press This work explores the h...
Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection
Black Kirby: In Search of the MotherBoxx Connection John Jennings and Stacey Robinson 9781941958117 Nonfiction Cedar Grove Publishing Cedar Grove Publishing A catalog of primarily visual artworks-on-p...
Criminal Law
Criminal Law Katheryn Russell-Brown 9781412977890 Nonfiction SAGE Publications, Inc SAGE Publications, Inc An Interdisciplinary Approach Criminal Law provides students with an integrated framework for...
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy George Yancy 9781438447445 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press A groundbreaking cont...
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298269 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press In this provocative book, Eddie S. Gl...
Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)
Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework (Black Studies and Critical Thinking) Sheena C. Howard 9781433122323 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing,...
African Thought in Comparative Perspective
African Thought in Comparative Perspective Ali Mazrui 9781443853934 Nonfiction Cambridge Scholars Publishing Cambridge Scholars Publishing African Thought in Comparative Perspective showcases how adep...
Every Boy Should Have a Man
Every Boy Should Have a Man Preston L. Allen 9781617751578 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Fiction Pick f...
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy George Yancy 9780739138823 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington Books The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophe...
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing Marita Golden 9780767929912 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books...
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat Dieter Buchhart, Glenn O'Brien, Jean-Louis Prat, Susanne Reichling, and Jean-Michel Basquiat 9783775725934 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first African-American a...
Social Studies Curriculum and Methods for the Caribbean
Social Studies Curriculum and Methods for the Caribbean Anthony D. Griffith and James L. Barth 9789766401252 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Developm...
Handbook of Black Studies
Handbook of Black Studies Meta Smith and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson 9780761928409 Fiction SAGE Publications, Inc SAGE Publications, Inc The Handbook of Black Studies is the first resource to bring toget...
White on White/Black on Black
White on White/Black on Black George Yancy 9780742514812 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book...
Steel Umbrellas
Steel Umbrellas David Hunter Sutherland 9780966229943 Poetry Archer Books Archer Books Poetry. African American Studies. David Sutherland has received a Rhysling Award, a Small Press Writer’s Award, a...
African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations
African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations George Yancy 9780415921008 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge African-American Philosophers brings into conversation seventeen of the foremost thinkers of c...
Ifa Bayeza
Ifa Bayeza NONE Ifa Bayeza is an acclaimed playwright, producer, and theater artist. Known for works like “Amistad Voices” and “The Ballad of Emmett Till,” she's won the 2008 Edgar Award and 2007 Eug...
Venise Berry
Venise Berry NONE Venise Berry, an associate professor at the University of Iowa, is a highly accomplished author, researcher, and media professional. She has penned best-selling novels and co-author...
Brad Walrond
Brad Walrond NONE Brad Walrond is a poet, author, and performance artist renowned for his contribution to the 1990s Black Arts Movement in NYC. His works include recordings, an album, a multimedia in...
Terrence L. Johnson
Terrence L. Johnson NONE Terrence L. Johnson is the Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies, Professor of African and African American Studies (FAS), Director of Religion and...
HIV/AIDS: The Facts and The Fiction
HIV/AIDS: The Facts and The Fiction Kam Williams Book Review “Unfortunately, a series of interlocking misconceptions have distorted scientific and public perceptions of HIV and the AIDS epide...
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th Edition University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff 9780226817972 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press The venerable, time-tested guide ...
Right as Reign
Right as Reign J.B. Vample 9781737427926 Fiction Jessyca Vample Publishing Jessyca Vample Publishing Can a woman who has spent her life hiding her feelings between the pages of a notebook, gain the co...
Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community
Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community Tina McElroy Ansa and Wanda Smalls Lloyd 9780979954320 Nonfiction NewSouth Books NewSouth Books In the aftermath of t...
Pray Hear Write: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Breakthrough in Your Writing
Pray Hear Write: 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting for Breakthrough in Your Writing Jevon Bolden 9781733873062 Nonfiction Embolden Media Group Embolden Media Group Ignite your passion to write! You know ...
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018 Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com is Hosting an Independent Publishing Workshop How to Publish Your Book Independently...
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Thabiti Lewis 9781496813077 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and a...
Pocket Guide to Publishing: 100 Things Authors Should Know
Pocket Guide to Publishing: 100 Things Authors Should Know John Koehler and Joe Coccaro 9781633933224 Nonfiction Koehler Books Koehler Books Publisher John Koehler and executive editor Joe Coccaro sha...
The Truth of God: The Bible, the Quran and Point Number 12
The Truth of God: The Bible, the Quran and Point Number 12 Wesley Muhammad 9780982161883 Nonfiction A-Team Publishing The Allah Team The God of the monotheistic (’one God’) religions - Judaism, Christ...
Kwame Alexander’s Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop: Awakening the Writer, Publisher, and Presenter in Every Student
Kwame Alexander’s Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop: Awakening the Writer, Publisher, and Presenter in Every Student Kwame Alexander 9781338026818 Nonfiction Teaching Resources Teaching Resources 2015 Ne...
Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation
Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 9780692430903 Poetry Grand Concourse Press Grand Concourse Press It’s a surprise to me that I’ve written this book. I’ve...
Spike’s New Film is Bad, Kickstarter Funding is Worse
Spike’s New Film is Bad, Kickstarter Funding is Worse Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com’s movie critic, Kam Williams, is my friend. He is one of the most easy going guys I know. He has reviewed thousa...
Uncertain Rituals
Uncertain Rituals S. Pearl Sharp 9780936068213 Poetry Poets Pay Rent, Too Poets Pay Rent, Too An audio collection of five short stories. Written and read by S. Pearl Sharp. Directed by Iona Morris. Th...
The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion Walter Mosley 9780765330086 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley de...
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara
Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Toni Cade Bambara 9781604734324 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist a...
Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Solar Throat Slashed: The Unexpurgated 1948 Edition (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Aimé Césaire 9780819570703 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat...
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction Toni Morrison 9781604730173 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of ...
Guildworks: Writings by the West Side Writers Guild
Guildworks: Writings by the West Side Writers Guild Mark Allen Boone 9780964955103 Nonfiction Blacksmith Books Blacksmith Books With its slick cover, solid editing, and often compelling work, Guildwor...