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Da Book Joint
Da Book Joint Chicago IL Da Book Joint is a Black woman-owned business born on the Southside of Chicago committed to literary growth and positive engagement of the youth.
Verlean Singletary and Courtney Woods Owners of Da Book Joint Bookstore Chicago, IL
Verlean Singletary and Courtney Woods Owners of Da Book Joint Bookstore Chicago, IL Book Spotlights Recorded during the American Booksellers Assoication's Children's Insititute, June 12, 2025, Portlan...
Joint FX Press
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Uptown Media Joint Ventures
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Joint FX Press
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That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman 9780415873260 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge This newly expanded and revised second edition of That’s the Joint brings...
The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Albuquerque New Mexico The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color is a conference for everyone! The conference is sponsored by five associations of ethnic...
Mina’s Joint: Triple Crown Collection
Mina’s Joint: Triple Crown Collection Keisha Ervin 9781622869749 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Once again she’s back! Keisha Ervin, that is, with her spellbinding tale of love, famil...
Rasta, Babylon, Jamming: The Music and Culture of Roots Reggae
Rasta, Babylon, Jamming: The Music and Culture of Roots Reggae Robert Fleming and K Kelly McElroy 9781681210605 Fiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures This book, Rasta, Babylo...
How To Love And Inspire Your Man After Prison
How To Love And Inspire Your Man After Prison Michael B. Jackson 9780970743626 Fiction Joint FX Press Joint FX Press Who would be interested in this book? The hundreds of thousands of wives and partn...
K Kelly McElroy
K Kelly McElroy NONE K Kelly, head of Uptown Media Joint Ventures, helps authors publish and market their stories. He also aids freelance journalists and recording artists in expanding their audience...
Start Your Own Indie Publishing Company!: Everything You Need to Know!
Start Your Own Indie Publishing Company!: Everything You Need to Know! K Kelly McElroy 9781681210223 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures Don’t get ripped off paying a, s...
Martin R. Delany
Martin R. Delany 0000000080985970 Martin Delany (1812-1885) was a pioneering African American abolitionist and the first African American Field Officer in the U.S Army. Post-Reconstruction, he promot...
Penguin Random House and Just Us Books
Penguin Random House and Just Us Books A Joint Venture Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion Keisha Ervin 9781539651840 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC After praying that someone would catch her, 10 years have flown by with her husband, Victor...
Free Jazz: Creative Originality, Controlled Surprise
Free Jazz: Creative Originality, Controlled Surprise Robert Fleming and K Kelly McElroy 9781681210346 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures As the Cold War and the McCarth...
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later Russell Atkins 9781681210292 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures The Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the mid to late ...
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland Russell Atkins 9781681210315 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures This is the very first anthology by the Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the ...
Best of the Best - Modern Jazz Recordings: The Definitive Guide to Building Your ULTIMATE Modern Jazz CD Collection
Best of the Best - Modern Jazz Recordings: The Definitive Guide to Building Your ULTIMATE Modern Jazz CD Collection K Kelly McElroy 9781681210001 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Jo...
Fatherhoodlum: Chronicles Of A Prison Dad
Fatherhoodlum: Chronicles Of A Prison Dad Michael B. Jackson 9780970743657 Fiction Joint FX Press Joint FX Press Based on a true story, FatherHoodlum is the captivating and inspirational story of Lamo...
How To Do Good After Prison: A Handbook For Successful Reentry (W/ Employment Information Handbook)
How To Do Good After Prison: A Handbook For Successful Reentry (W/ Employment Information Handbook) Michael B. Jackson 9780970743602 Nonfiction Joint FX Press Joint FX Press There are two types of bar...
Colin Powell
Colin Powell 0000000108588433 Colin Powell (1937-2021) was a US statesman, diplomat, and retired four-star general. He served four presidential administrations, including as Secretary of State under ...
Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander 0000000118793131 Michelle Alexander, born October 7, 1967, is a renowned civil rights advocate and litigator. She held a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2005 and has a joint appointmen...
Asa G. Hilliard III
Asa G. Hilliard III 0000000067598829 Asa Grant Hilliard III, also known as Nana Baffour Amankwatia II, was a renowned professor of educational psychology specializing in ancient African history. He s...
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Kam Williams the-sweet-blood-of-jesus.jpg Film Review Da Sweet Blood of Jesus [2015] In Theaters: Feb 13, 2015 LimitedRating: UnratedGenre: Drama Runtime: 2 hr. 3 min.Stu...
Moses Miller
Moses Miller NONE Moses Miller, author and journalist, co-founded Mind Candy, LLC, a company specializing in book publishing and screenplay development. A native New Yorker, he's known for his compel...
Timothy B. Tyson
Timothy B. Tyson 0000000110713432 Timothy B. Tyson, born in 1959, is a renowned North Carolina author and historian specializing in Civil Rights Movement topics. He holds appointments at Duke Univers...
C&B Books Sponsoring Authors
C&B Books Sponsoring Authors C&B Books Sponsoring Authors Exhibitors Journal 2006 Special AALBC.com Promotion African American Pavilion C&B Books Sponsoring Authors "New Title" Showcase ...
Obama Guilty Of Being President While Black
Obama Guilty Of Being President While Black D.T. Pollard 9780982460627 Fiction Book Express Book Express OBAMA GUILTY of BEING PRESIDENT WHILE BLACK examines how the shadows of oppressive Jim Crow law...
Madeline Hampton
Madeline Hampton NONE Madeline Hampton is a romance novelist who began reading and writing at a young age. After serving in the U.S. Military, she pursued a career in health, during which she continu...
Death, With Occasional Smiling
Death, With Occasional Smiling Tony Medina 9781945023262 Poetry Indolent Books Indolent Books Read a Review of Death, With Occasional Smiling at Mosaic Magazine. The electrifying body of poems in ...
African-American Literature Web Sites Launch “Power List” of Best-Selling Books
African-American Literature Web Sites Launch “Power List” of Best-Selling Books Troy Johnson Article FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Troy Johnson: troy@aalbc.com Gwen Richardson: grichardson@cu...
Straight Talk, No Chaser: How To Find, Keep, And Understand A Man
Straight Talk, No Chaser: How To Find, Keep, And Understand A Man Steve Harvey and Denene Millner 9780061728990 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the instant number one New York Times bestseller Act...
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell 9780767924900 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Ran...
Peniel E. Joseph
Peniel E. Joseph 0000000115111895 Peniel E. Joseph, historian and professor at The University of Texas, is the founding director of the LBJ School’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. Specia...
Dante Lee
Dante Lee 0000000081738541 Dante Lee, an award-winning business coach and best-selling author, is the CEO of Dante Lee International, a marketing and PR firm that specializes in reaching African Amer...
Mervyn Morris
Mervyn Morris 0000000122796976 Born in 1937, Mervyn E. Morris is a renowned Jamaican poet and scholar. A Rhodes Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature, he was the...
Clarence Lusane
Clarence Lusane 0000000109374330 Dr. Clarence Lusane, a respected scholar and activist, specializes in human rights, global race relations, U.S. politics, and international relations. Born in Detroit...
The Equalizer
The Equalizer Kam Williams the-equalizer.jpg Film Review The Equalizer In Theaters: Sep 26, 2014 Wide Rated R for graphic violence, sexual references and pervasive profanity Running time: 131 minu...
Undivided: A Muslim Daughter
Undivided: A Muslim Daughter Kam Williams Book Review “They didn’t talk. Not for 10 years… Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives...
Beckham Publications Group
Beckham Publications Group Loading Beckham Publications Group, Inc. PO Box 4066 Silver Spring, MD 20914 Phone/fax: 301-384-7995 www.beckhamhouse.com barry@beckhamhouse.com THE BECKHAM PUBLICATI...
Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books
Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books A Joint Venture Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books
The Woodson Series
The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The Woodson Series is a joint publishing project of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and Black Cla...
Black Classic Press
Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The Majority Press The Woodson Series The Woodson Series is a joint publishing project of the Association for the Study of African American...
This Opening Sky
This Opening Sky Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781638192152 Fiction Milk + Cookies Bushel & Peck Books Historical fiction at its finest! A sweet and sensitive, accessible middle grade n...
Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays
Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays Edwidge Danticat 9781642503623 Nonfiction Books & Books Books & Books Edwidge Danticat’s Writing JourneyToday, Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning writer. But ho...
Scarred Knuckles
Scarred Knuckles Raymond Baker 9781947340510 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Scarred Knuckles is a story of cause and effect. A couple of Milwaukee homicide detectives, Tabitha Allison a...
Empty Bottles Full of Stories
Empty Bottles Full of Stories r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake 9781449496470 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing A joint poetry collection from the virally popular and bestselling p...
A Billionaire Affair (Passion Grove)
A Billionaire Affair (Passion Grove) Niobia Bryant 9781335216656 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Love is the ultimate power playAlessandra Dalmount has been groomed si...
A Hustler’s Dream
A Hustler’s Dream Ernest Morris B01M3PUX12 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing A new start always comes at a price. Dante “Worlds” is fresh from the joint. Leaner but more importantly… wiser...
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...
Still the Best Woman for the Job, Vol. 3 (Jenkins Family Series)
Still the Best Woman for the Job, Vol. 3 (Jenkins Family Series) Sharon C. Cooper 9780985525491 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Joint heir to the largest construction company in the state ...
Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man
Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man Steve Harvey 9780061728969 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man—the bas...
Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore
Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note: We published an update of our bookstores in March of 2014. One of the very first things I put on AA...
Crew Love
Crew Love Antwan Floyd Sr 9781604614435 Fiction Bleeding Pen Publishing Bleeding Pen Publishing Phil-Good Trenton is caring, charismatic, and passionate. Traits that get buried underneath his kill or ...
Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale
Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale Noire 9781416533030 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. CHECK IT. Lamont be my government, but Hood be my name. I earned my stripes chilling up in Fat Daddy’s joint...
Married To Da Streets
Married To Da Streets Silk White 9781424330799 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Rico, born and raised in Harlem, New York is tired of being broke. Still living at home with his mother, wh...
Just My Luck: A Novel
Just My Luck: A Novel Tajuana “TJ” Butler 9781400060214 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Today is no ordinary day for thirty-eight-year-old Lanita Lightfoot. Today represents the culm...
Peace, Love & Lattes
Peace, Love & Lattes Darrin Bell and Theron Heir 9780740746628 Fiction Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing When people read the strip over breakfast, we want them to laugh. If they’re ...
Triple Take: A Novel
Triple Take: A Novel Y. Blak Moore 9780375760662 Fiction Villard Villard After serving ten years for armed robbery, Jonathan “JC” Cole is about to get out of the joint, and he has one thing on his min...
What A Man Wants, What A Woman Needs The Secret To Successful, Fulfilling Relationships
What A Man Wants, What A Woman Needs The Secret To Successful, Fulfilling Relationships Eddie L. Long 9780785265726 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing One of the most common c...
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States Zora Neale Hurston 9780060188931 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a f...
Whippins Switches & Peach Cobbler
Whippins Switches & Peach Cobbler Brian Egeston 9780967550503 Fiction Carter-Krall Publishers Carter-Krall Publishers Finally, a refreshing story from a fresh new writer that can be experienced and en...
Colin Powell (Contemporary African Americans)
Colin Powell (Contemporary African Americans) Diane Patrick 9780811497978 Nonfiction Heinemann Library Heinemann Library Traces the life of Colin Powell, from his childhood to his success as the first...
Christmas in Biafra, and Other Poems
Christmas in Biafra, and Other Poems Chinua Achebe 9780385008402 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House Chinua Achebe volume of poetry was the joint winner of the first Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
TLJ Bookstore - The Centre at Forestville
TLJ Bookstore - The Centre at Forestville Forestville MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
TLJ Bookstore - Prince George’s Plaza
TLJ Bookstore - Prince George’s Plaza Hyattsville MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
TLJ Bookstore - Security Square Mall
TLJ Bookstore - Security Square Mall Windsor Mill MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice 000000011071227X Dr. Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Bu...
Gerald L. Early
Gerald L. Early 0000000110654831 Gerald Lyn Early, born 1952, is an esteemed American essayist and culture critic. He currently serves as the Merle Kling Professor at Washington University in St. Lou...
Mark Anthony Neal
Mark Anthony Neal 0000000114756800 Mark Anthony Neal, a distinguished professor at Duke University, is the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture, and Entrepreneurship. He co-direc...
De’Andre Salter
De’Andre Salter NONE De'Andre Salter is a prominent Black executive, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, author, and bishop. He's celebrated for his 19-year insurance career and building the world's ...
Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges
Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges NONE Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges (1950-2006) was a prominent professor of Social Work and African American Studies at California State University. She held a Ph.D. from Temple...
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...
Tlotlo Tsamaase
Tlotlo Tsamaase NONE Tlotlo Tsamaase is a Motswana author of Womb City and The Silence of the Wilting Skin. Her second novel, House of Margins, is forthcoming in Spring 2026, as well as her debut YA...
Honeydripper
Honeydripper Kam Williams honeyd9.jpg Film Review Danny Glover Stars in Saga Set in Segregated South Honeydripper Rated PG-13 for brief violence and suggestive material. Running...
The Orig. Kings of Comedy
The Orig. Kings of Comedy Michael Dequina images/the_or7.jpg Film Review 2000 Paramount Pictures Staring: Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and ...
Red Hook Summer
Red Hook Summer Kam Williams red-hook-summer.jpg Film Review Latest Spike Lee Joint Deserves to Get the Hook Red Hook Summer (2012) In Theaters: Aug 10, 2012 Limited R, 2 hr. 1 min. Drama Directed ...
Dippin My Spoon
Dippin My Spoon Nina Foxx Excerpt BACK IN AUSTIN, Amber was sure of one thing; she didn’t want anything from Tyler. He could have everything, except her car. She knew she didn’t want ...
Dr. Randal Pinkett - The “Black Faces in White Places” Interview
Dr. Randal Pinkett - The “Black Faces in White Places” Interview Kam Williams Interview "You're Hired!" A Chat with the Only African-American Winner of "The Apprentice" Dr. Randal Pinkett ha...
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview
Van Jones - The "Carbon Nation" Interview Kam Williams Interview Former Obama Green Czar Opines on the State of the "Carbon Nation" Anthony "Van" Jones and his twin sister, Angela, were born...
Beckham Publications Group
Beckham Publications Group Troy Johnson Article Beckham Publications Group, Inc. PO Box 4066 Silver Spring, MD 20914 Phone/fax: 301-384-...
Sophie Washington My BFF
Sophie Washington My BFF Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776387 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL BOOK AWARD WINNERAn Amazon Bestselling Book!!Fans of Junie ...
Marketing Your Book – Eight Unique Ways to Promote Your Book
Marketing Your Book – Eight Unique Ways to Promote Your Book Desiree Day Article Marketing Your Book - Eight Unique Ways to Promote Your Book by Desiree Day Whether you have just completed yo...
Book-Remarks.com
Book-Remarks.com Troy Johnson Article The goal of Book-Remarks.com is to offer exciting, timely, positive, and useful information to the African-American reading community. Book-Remarks...
Queens Book Fair 2006
Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual...
So They Say You Should Write a Book: A New Author’s Guide to Writing a Book People Will Buy and Read
So They Say You Should Write a Book: A New Author’s Guide to Writing a Book People Will Buy and Read Jevon Bolden 9781733873055 Nonfiction Embolden Media Group Embolden Media Group Someone heard your ...
Sophie Washington The Snitch (paperback)
Sophie Washington The Snitch (paperback) Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706019 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS! **Purple Dragonfly Book Award Firs...
Ruth and the Green Book
Ruth and the Green Book Calvin Alexander Ramsey 9780761352556 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group About This Book Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family’s new car! In the early ...
Lakeside Secrets
Lakeside Secrets K.D. Richards 9781335456816 Fiction Harlequin Intrigue Harlequin Enterprises Limited A mother murdered. A daughter’s return.And a killer determined to keep the case cold. Twe...
Sophie Washington Queen of the Bee (paperback)
Sophie Washington Queen of the Bee (paperback) Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706002 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing AN AMAZON BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS! This entertaining, illustrat...
Debra Owsley
Debra Owsley NONE Debra Owsley, avid reader and hairstylist, transformed her passion into a business, Simply Said Reading Accessories and LitVersation. She collaborates with bestselling authors, book...
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (Paperback)
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks (Paperback) Jason Reynolds 9781481438292 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. UK Carnegie Medal winner A National Book Award Finalist Coretta Sco...
Sophie Washington The Gamer
Sophie Washington The Gamer Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776325 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A BEST SELLING BOOK FOR KIDS! Give Up Video Games for 40 Days? Oh No! Sophie and Cole...
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Great Walls of Benin (Book 6)
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Great Walls of Benin (Book 6) O.T. Begho 9780955496660 Fiction Evolution Media Lab Ltd Evolution Media Lab Ltd The Adventures of Obi and Titi The Adventures of Obi ...
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: Shango’s Axe of Thunder (Book 5)
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: Shango’s Axe of Thunder (Book 5) O.T. Begho 9780955496653 Fiction Evolution Media Lab Ltd Evolution Media Lab Ltd The Adventures of Obi and Titi The Adventures of Obi a...
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: Queen Idia’s Mask (Book 4)
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: Queen Idia’s Mask (Book 4) O.T. Begho 9780955496646 Fiction Evolution Media Lab Ltd Evolution Media Lab Ltd The Adventures of Obi and Titi The Adventures of Obi and Tit...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
Write It Right: The Guide To Self-Publishing Your Best Book
Write It Right: The Guide To Self-Publishing Your Best Book Gwen Richardson 9780980025095 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications Recent changes in the book industry have afforded n...