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Daniel Tisdale, Artist and Founder of Harlem World Magazine
Daniel Tisdale, Artist and Founder of Harlem World Magazine Author Interviews
Regina Tisdale
Regina Tisdale NONE Regina Tisdale is the widow of Wayman Tisdale, a renowned basketball player and jazz musician from Oklahoma, who tragically passed away from cancer at age 44 in 2009. Regina Tisda...
Losing My Power Forward: Rebounding Through Grief
Losing My Power Forward: Rebounding Through Grief Regina Tisdale 9781736564240 Nonfiction Cedar Gate Publishing Cedar Gate Publishing In Losing my Power Forward, Regina Tisdale shares an incredibly ca...
Daniel Henderson
Daniel Henderson 0000000016295318 Daniel B. Henderson Sr., also known as Smokey 'D', is a poet residing in Ashdown, AR. Born in 1956, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force Reserves. He hol...
Daniel Craig The “Skyfall” Interview
Daniel Craig The “Skyfall” Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in Chester, England on March 2, 1968, and raised on the Wirral Peninsula outside Liverpool, Daniel Craig has gone from waiting tab...
A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents
A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents Mary-Alice Daniel 9780062960047 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A poetic coming-of-age memoir that probes the legacies and my...
Daniel Bernstrom
Daniel Bernstrom NONE Daniel Bernstrom is a visually impaired author who enjoys creating rhythmic stories. His work often draws inspiration from his surroundings, such as his story about a eucalyptus...
Daniel Black
Daniel Black NONE Daniel Omotosho Black, a Kansas City native, is an accomplished scholar and author. Raised in Arkansas, he studied English at Clark College under a full scholarship, later attending...
Daniel’s Wish
Daniel’s Wish Leah Whitney 9780966270013 Fiction WhitWorks Publications WhitWorks Publications For Ages 5-9—Daniel has everything a boy could want-except a father. One night, after seeing a bright st...
Lurie Daniel Favors
Lurie Daniel Favors NONE Lurie Daniel Favors, Esq., is a dedicated racial justice activist and attorney. She serves as General Counsel at the Center for Law and Social Justice, regularly appears on S...
Daniel Meets Max the Bully
Daniel Meets Max the Bully Leah Whitney 9780966270020 Fiction WhitWorks Publications WhitWorks Publications For ages 5-9—Daniel is still helping others and doing good deeds, but the one person he want...
Daniel R. Day
Daniel R. Day NONE Daniel R. Day, also known as “Dapper Dan,” is a renowned artist with work displayed in global museums including the Smithsonian and MoMA. He owned a boutique from 1982-1992, reopen...
Daniel Isles
Daniel Isles NONE Daniel Isles is a renowned artist known for his unique style, used across various industries such as fashion, music, and technology. He's collaborated with notable brands like Apple...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excerpt "Some Technicolor Bazaar" How Harlem Became the Center of the Universe Harlem!&helli...
The Editors of Life Magazine
The Editors of Life Magazine NONE Life Magazine, an American publication, ran from 1883-2002, initially as a humor and general interest magazine. Bought by Time founder Henry Luce in 1936, it became ...
Africans in Harlem
Africans in Harlem Boukary Sawadogo 9780823299126 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem. ...
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid 9781976572838 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant...
Wild Ride (a Dyamonde Daniel Book, Book #6)
Wild Ride (a Dyamonde Daniel Book, Book #6) Nikki Grimes 9781478890737 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Readers are welcomed back to the world of Dyamonde Daniel in a big way with the sixth i...
Daniel Minter
Daniel Minter 0000000030276690 Daniel Minter is an acclaimed painter and illustrator, known for his work in children's books and exhibitions worldwide. He is the illustrator of 11 books and a Coretta...
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Beverly Daniel Tatum 0000000082603083 Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum is a renowned psychologist and educator, known for her research and publications on race and education. She was the ninth president of S...
The Fantasies of Future Things
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones 9781668016282 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this powerful debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile th...
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest
Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest Fawn Weaver 9781595911346 Nonfiction Melcher Media Melcher Media ...
Going Down Home with Daddy
Going Down Home with Daddy Kelly Starling Lyons 9781561459384 Fiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers “On reunion morning, we rise before the sun. Daddy hums as he packs our car with suitcas...
David Levering Lewis, Michael H. Nash, and Daniel J. Leab
David Levering Lewis, Michael H. Nash, and Daniel J. Leab MULTIPLE David Levering Lewis, Michael H. Nash, and Daniel J. Leab are renowned authors. They are known for their significant contributions i...
Daniel Rasmussen
Daniel Rasmussen 0000000079463702 Daniel Rasmussen is a Harvard University graduate with honors, and a recipient of the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize, Perry Miller Prize, and Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. ...
Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles
Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles
Mary-Alice Daniel
Mary-Alice Daniel NONE Mary-Alice Daniel is a Yale-educated poet recognized by Poet Laureate Louise Glück. With an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, her work appears in variou...
Renee Daniel Flagler
Renee Daniel Flagler NONE Renee Daniel Flagler is a writer who has served in marketing, promotions and events for over ten years. Professionally, her writing has been featured in business and co...
Claude McKay
Claude McKay 0000000108625951 Festus Claudius McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Jamaica and authored influential works including the poem “If We Must Die” and novel “Home to ...
Esther Cooper Jackson
Esther Cooper Jackson 0000000037560491 Esther Cooper Jackson (1917-2022) was a co-founder and managing editor of Freedomways magazine from 1961-1985, a significant publication featuring writers like ...
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook Celeste Beatty 9781631068515 Nonfiction Rock Point Books Carter-Krall Imprint Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem B...
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996)
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) Marie Brown Article ’ An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) by ’Marie Brown (presented a...
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre
Dika Araújo, Natacha Bustos, and Claudia Aguirre MULTIPLE Claudia Aguirre is a GLAAD & Eisner nominated writer and artist, and co-founder of Boudika Comics. Natacha Bustos is a Spanish comic artist k...
Daniel’s Wife
Daniel’s Wife Anna Christian 9780979927331 Fiction Dadielte Production Dadielte Production Jessica Weaver’s life was perfect. Her handsome, gregarious husband, a public consultant, made a good salary ...
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Lise Funderburg 9781496212092 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, ...
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America Daniel Black 9781335449382 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press A piercing collection of essays on racial tension in America...
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 9780062346100 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of...
Heart of the Falcon
Heart of the Falcon Francis Ray 9781250157867 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Madelyn Taggart has shattered her share of glass ceilings. As a young engineer at a Houston oil company,...
Cheryl McKissack Daniel
Cheryl McKissack Daniel NONE Cheryl McKissack Daniel is the award-winning president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack. She serves as principal-in-charge and project executive on numerous high-pro...
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel Nikki Grimes 9780399251757 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from ...
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance Jose Andres and Matt Goulding Excerpt “Harlem” by Alain Locke If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem has come to mean in the short s...
Harlem Rhapsody (paperback)
Harlem Rhapsody (paperback) Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593638507 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! “A gripping narrative, don’t miss this histori...
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...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
Harlem at Four
Harlem at Four Michael Datcher 9780593429334 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A stunning picture book comprised of two incredible stories— the first part of the book chronicles the adv...
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era Shannon King 9781479889082 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Read the Intro...
Harlem Street Portraits
Harlem Street Portraits Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen 9780764344879 Fiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the hu...
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 Allon Schoener 9781595581587 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the ...
Hunting in Harlem
Hunting in Harlem Mat Johnson 9781582342726 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Gentrification-by any means necessary. With the help of new employees Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons...
The Heart of the Artist
The Heart of the Artist Rory Noland 9780310224716 Fiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Over 100,000 sold •Great for individuals and teams •Includes provocative discussion q...
Wallace Thurman
Wallace Thurman 0000000080916692 Wallace Henry Thurman, born in 1902, was an influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance. Known for his realistic portrayals of lower-class black American society...
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola 9780271080963 Nonfiction Penn State University Press Penn State University...
The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine
The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from the Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine Sondra Kathryn Wilson 9780375753794 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House Modern Library Harlem R...
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...
Njozi Magazine
Njozi Magazine Troy Johnson Article Njozi Magazine Dream Variation Enterprises is currently seeking submissions for Njozi Magazine, A voice of the Urban Creative Intellectual. Dream Variation...
Harlem Redux: A Novel
Harlem Redux: A Novel Persia Walker 9780743224970 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent...
The Queen of Harlem
The Queen of Harlem Brian Egeston Book Review He has managed to fool us all! Because his previous work gave the impression that his was the authentic voice of the next generation of Black male southe...
Voices of The Harlem Renaissance
Voices of The Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke Article From Locke’s essay “Harlem,” published in the March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic. If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem...
The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast S. H. Fernando Jr. 9781662602177 Nonfiction Astra House Astra Publishing House The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive an...
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir Daniel R. Day 9780525510512 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration...
Regina Abraham
Regina Abraham NONE Regina Abraham, a Harlem-based Academic Intervention Coordinator, is an educational consultant and author of the Harlem-inspired children's book series, “The Harlem Legends.” She ...
Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920
Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 Kevin McGruder 9780231169141 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Through the lens of real estate transact...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan 9780060882372 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Ha...
Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance
Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan 9780060882389 Nonfiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss An...
Hunting In Harlem
Hunting In Harlem Thumper Book Review I am always excited when new authors enter the scene because they expand the dimensions of our existence through literature that is vibrant, challenging and im...
Harlem
Harlem Eric Jerome Dickey B07H74CYSW Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Available for the first time as an eBook, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s thrilling short story Ha...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Connie Bradley Book Review Definitions of Miss Anne: A coded term for any white woman. A derisive name for a white woman. An emanc...
Don’t Cry for Me (paperback)
Don’t Cry for Me (paperback) Daniel Black 9781335449351 Fiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH “Don’t Cry for...
Harlem Renaissance Party
Harlem Renaissance Party Faith Ringgold 9780060579111 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the Harlem Renaissance...
If I Ruled the World
If I Ruled the World Joylynn M. Jossel 9780312328795 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In every ghetto there is that one who stands out above the rest. In this unforgettable novel, he...
Devin Allen
Devin Allen NONE Devin Allen is a self-taught artist from Baltimore. He's known for his powerful photographs published on Time magazine covers, notably during the Baltimore Uprising and BlackTrans Li...
Barack Obama at Harlem's Apollo Theater, November 29th 2007
Barack Obama at Harlem's Apollo Theater, November 29th 2007 Troy Johnson Article Barack Obama http://aalbc.com/authors/barack_obama.htm Barack Obama hosted a fund raiser at Harlem's "World ...
And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories
And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780316182362 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Stunning poetry and illustrations introduce a ne...
Glimmer in the Darkness
Glimmer in the Darkness Nicole Hampton 9780996539708 Fiction Didactic Elements Publishing Didactic Elements Publishing For Shannon Johnson, full-time wife, mom and freelance writer, life as she knew i...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #8
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #8 Ron Kavanaugh mosaic8 Fiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine Download a pdf version of the Spring 2000 Issue of Mosaic Literary Magazine. All ad...
Tony Hillery
Tony Hillery NONE Tony Hillery, founder and executive director of Harlem Grown, began his journey in 2011, transforming a vacant lot in Harlem into a thriving urban farm. He is based in New York and ...
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,...
Harlem Rhapsody
Harlem Rhapsody Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593638484 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our stories are our gene...
The Harlem Reader
The Harlem Reader Herb Boyd 9781400046812 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House There is no neighborhood in America as famous, infamous, and inspiring as Harlem. From its humble beginnings ...
H Is For Harlem
H Is For Harlem Dinah Johnson 9780316322379 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group This richly informative and gorgeously illustrated book celebrates Harlem’s vibrant traditions, past ...
Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.)
Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.) Angela Dews 9781087896182 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Second Edition of the AALBC Bestseller Harlem Hit & Run Harlem Hit & Run is recent histo...
Harlem Hit & Run
Harlem Hit & Run Angela Dews 9798744530754 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Newer Version Available (2nd Edition) I had to do the perp walk through a gauntlet of paparazzi at...
Renaissance in Harlem
Renaissance in Harlem Lionel C. Bascom 9780380976645 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Digging beneath the glitter of the African American artistic outpouring early in this century dubbed the Ha...
That Is My Dream!
That Is My Dream! Langston Hughes 9780399550171 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books “Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes’s most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world f...
Listen to the Lambs: A Novel
Listen to the Lambs: A Novel Daniel Black 9781250078476 Fiction Bedford/St. Martin’s Macmillan Publishers In Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black, nothing can convince Lazarus Love III to return to the...
Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader
Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader Rudine Sims Bishop 9781933491158 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. He came from modest beginnings. Born in South Carolina in 1811 to free people o...
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9780063421189 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel insp...
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries Davida Siwisa James 9781531506148 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Explo...
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974205 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 3 in The Soul Trilogy Harlem, 1969, and the vibrant community around 125th Street is rife with creative inn...
Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White
Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White Emily Bernard 9780300121995 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a pa...
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Sara Blair 9780691130873 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Harlem riot of 1935 not o...
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance Joyce Moore Turner 9780252072413 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance is a...
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood Tony Hillery 9781534402317 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Discover the incredible true story of Harlem Grown, a lush ga...
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 9780316017237 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group “Most everything I write here is true and happen...
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hugh Pearson 9781583222744 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the t...
Anne Spencer
Anne Spencer 0000000458445176 Anne Bannister Spencer was a lauded American poet, civil rights activist, and librarian during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1882, she was the first African-American w...
Harlem Honey
Harlem Honey Lisa Y? Wilson Book Review In Harlem Honey: The Adventures of a Curious Kid, the story begins as Moses and his parents have recently moved to Harlem, away from the comfort and familiarit...
Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem Kevin McGruder 9780231198936 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press At the turn of the early twentieth century, Harlem—the iconic Blac...
Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It
Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It Ms. Tee 9780692396889 Nonfiction Royal-T Publishing Royal-T Publishing Tonia Taylor’s life changed forever on the nigh...
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Herb Boyd 9780743293082 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). ...