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Soul of the Band: Making the Cut: Book 1
Soul of the Band: Making the Cut: Book 1 K. L. Brady 9780983920212 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Reviewer’s Choice (August 2012), Midwest Book Review Children’s Bookwatch - "Soul of the Band a ...
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895 Larry Eugene Rivers 9780813018904 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida "Labor...
Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band
Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band Anne F. Rockwell 9780761355656 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group ”What happened when a former slave took beat-up old in...
Our God Is Marching on
Our God Is Marching on Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063350991 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech Our God Is Marching On, part of Dr....
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation Larry Eugene Rivers 9780813033815 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Winner of:• The Black Caucus of the Amer...
The Band in Our Basement: A Picture Book
The Band in Our Basement: A Picture Book Kelly J. Baptist 9781419769078 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams In this rollicking, rhyming picture book, a pair of siblings who are supposed to b...
The Exiles of Florida
The Exiles of Florida Joshua R. Giddings 9780933121478 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Joshua Giddings (1795-1864), an anti-slavery leader and a champion of free speech, was admitte...
One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven
One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven Bro. Yao 9781569026915 Poetry Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The title, One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven, is a koan. Koans function as teach...
Black Forward: Marching Orders for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0
Black Forward: Marching Orders for the Fight Against Jim Crow 2.0 Roland S. Martin 9781538782316 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Black Forward is a hard-hitting investigation into what you c...
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours Ann Bausum 9781426309397 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books N...
Cleveland Lee’S Beale St. Band
Cleveland Lee’S Beale St. Band Arthur R. Flowers 9780816736522 Fiction Troll Communications Troll Communications When Cleveland Lee says he wants to play trumpet in his sister’s marching band, everyon...
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War Edward E. Baptist 9780807853535 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Set on...
Michelle Donice
Michelle Donice NONE Michelle Donice, an Indianapolis native, is an accomplished academic and author dividing her time between inspiring youth and writing fiction in central Florida. She credits her ...
Larry Eugene Rivers
Larry Eugene Rivers NONE Dr. Larry E. Rivers is a distinguished educator with degrees from Fort Valley State College, Villanova University, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of London. H...
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 5 O’Clock Band
The 5 O’Clock Band Troy Andrews 9781419728365 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams In this companion to the Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award–winning Trombone Shorty, join a scrapp...
Desmond Meade
Desmond Meade NONE Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and chair of Floridians for a Fair Democracy, is a renowned advocate for voting rights. A former homeless retur...
University Press of Florida
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Hallema
Hallema NONE Hallema, a Miami-born writer and lawyer, holds degrees from Florida State University and Stetson University College of Law. Known for her spoken word poetry in South Florida, she's also ...
Preston L. Allen
Preston L. Allen NONE Preston L. Allen, a Boston and Miami native, is an award-winning author known for his engaging short stories. A recipient of the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in...
Edwina Louise Dorch
Edwina Louise Dorch NONE Edwina Louise Dorch is a Ph.D. psychologist and minimalist artist based in Florida, specializing in painting female figures and seascapes. She uses art as a therapy tool to m...
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference Fort Lauderdale Florida The South Florida Book Festival and Literary Conference is one of the nation’s fastest growing and premier book fes...
People in Black History: Famous African Americans
People in Black History: Famous African Americans Kingsley H. Smith B005FTXREW Nonfiction Kindle Direct Publishing Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Are you searching for facts and information about the l...
His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Jon Meacham 9781984855022 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U...
His Day is Marching on: Memoirs of W. E. B. Du Bois
His Day is Marching on: Memoirs of W. E. B. Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780893881566 Nonfiction Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation
John Lewis
John Lewis 0000000114586629 Born to sharecroppers, John Robert Lewis became a key figure in the US Civil Rights Movement. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a speaker at...
The Sacred Band: Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy
The Sacred Band: Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy David Anthony Durham 9780307739681 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia and The Other Lands, ...
Eric Deggans
Eric Deggans NONE Eric Deggans, NPR's first full-time TV critic, has served as a critic across various mediums and regularly comments on TV for National Public Radio. Raised in Indiana with a journal...
Southwest Florida Reading Festival
Southwest Florida Reading Festival Fort Myers Regional Library Fort Myers Florida There really is something for all ages to experience at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival. Everyone enjoys the mu...
Florida Water: Poems
Florida Water: Poems aja monet 9781642599671 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Inspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths, Florida Water is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can...
After War Times: An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida
After War Times: An African American Childhood in Reconstruction-Era Florida T. Thomas Fortune 9780817318369 Nonfiction University Alabama Press University Alabama Pressv Twenty-three autobiographical...
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Kam Williams Interview Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Wesley T. Snipes is a globally celebrated actor, film producer, mas...
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida Larry Eugene Rivers 9780252036910 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press This gripping study examines ...
Henrietta Mays Smith
Henrietta Mays Smith 0000000066593663 Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Ph.D, is a distinguished scholar and editor with a background in English, History, and Library Science. She's known for her editorial wor...
Corinda Pitts Marsh
Corinda Pitts Marsh NONE Corinda Pitts Marsh, a Florida State University graduate, is a writer and professor specializing in rural Southern heritage and social justice themes. She is passionate about...
Jessica Pryce
Jessica Pryce NONE Jessica Pryce, a Faculty at Florida State University, has 15 years of diverse experience in child welfare. She has trained 150+ organizations, promotes system-wide changes, and hol...
DeAndra Davis
DeAndra Davis NONE DeAndra Davis is a neurodivergent, Jamaican-American author who lives in the swampy heat of Florida. Her debut All the Noise at Once follows an autistic main character as messy as...
Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume
Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume Kwame Alexander 9781534111141 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins On the eve of singing at a community festival, a bout of stage fright threa...
Acoustic Rooster And His Barnyard Band
Acoustic Rooster And His Barnyard Band Kwame Alexander 9781585366880 Fiction Sleeping Bear Press Sleeping Bear Press When a jazz-loving rooster sets his sights on winning a barnyard talent show, he re...
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...
Still Rising: Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century
Still Rising: Famous Black Quotations for the Twenty-First Century Janet Cheatham Bell 9781572843202 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc An inspiring collection of pithy, easy-to-recall one-...
The Weight
The Weight Jeff Boyd 9781668007266 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon...
This Is What It Feels Like
This Is What It Feels Like Rebecca Barrow 9780062494238 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This tender story of friendship, music, and ferocious love asks: what will you fight for, if not yourself? F...
Atet A.D.
Atet A.D. Nathaniel Mackey 9780872863828 Poetry City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers Atet A.D. is the third volume of Nathaniel Mackey’s ongoing epistolary fiction, From a Broken Bottle Trace...
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others 9781886104686 Nonfiction Florida Histor...
Put Your Shoes On & Get Ready!
Put Your Shoes On & Get Ready! Raphael G. Warnock 9780593528877 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Georgia’s first Black Senator Raphael Warnock comes an inspiring picture book about fin...
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong
Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823434282 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the histor...
Fela: Music Is the Weapon
Fela: Music Is the Weapon Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery 9780063058798 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti—the Pan-Africa...
Play, Louis, Play!: The True Story of a Boy and His Horn
Play, Louis, Play!: The True Story of a Boy and His Horn Muriel Harris Weinstein 9781599903750 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing The childhood of Louis Armstrong was as ...
Max Found Two Sticks
Max Found Two Sticks Brian Pinkney 9780689815935 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. It was a day when Max didn’t feel like talking to anyone. He just sat on his front steps and watc...
Max Found Two Sticks
Max Found Two Sticks Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780671787769 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. The story of a young boy’s introduction to the joys of making music, cer...
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the 16th Century
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the 16th Century Andrés Reséndez 9780465068418 Nonfiction Basic Boo...
Marley and the Family Band
Marley and the Family Band Cedella Marley with Tracey Baptiste 9780593301111 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Daughter of Bob Marley and New York Times bestselling aut...
Tae Edmonds
Tae Edmonds NONE Jervonte “Tae” Edmonds is a versatile professional as a Realtor, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur, Educator, Author, and Philanthropist. He's the founder & CEO of Suits For Seniors, a pr...
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm Gladwell 9780316296618 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group An exploration of how tec...
Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
Florida Antiquarian Book Fair St. Petersburg’s Historic Coliseum St. Petersburg Florida This is the oldest and largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeastern United States, and one of the lar...
Reformatory
Reformatory Tananarive Due 9781982188351 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. “You’re in for a treat…one of those books you can’t put down…Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King ...
South Florida Book Festival
South Florida Book Festival African-American Research Library and Cultural Center Fort Lauderdale Florida
Bonnie J. Glover
Bonnie J. Glover NONE Born in Alabama and raised in Brooklyn, Bonnie J. Glover is a graduate of Florida A&M University and Stetson University College of Law. She has worked for the Housing Authority ...
Cheryl Robinson
Cheryl Robinson NONE Cheryl Robinson, a Detroit-born author, transformed her life from a career in marketing to writing. She began with self-publishing, before transitioning to Penguin Books' imprint...
Darline Dorce-Coupet
Darline Dorce-Coupet NONE Darline Dorce-Coupet was born in Port-au-Prince Haiti but was raised in Miami, Florida, which was home for years. However, Ms. Dorce-Coupet has recently relocated...
Kelvin Bodley
Kelvin Bodley NONE Kelvin D. Bodley, a Chicago native and now Florida resident, is a social change advocate, author, and Minister of the Gospel. He served as the Special Assistant to Mayor Anthony Gr...
Martin Munro
Martin Munro 0000000114992192 Martin Munro, a professor of French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, specializes in Haitian Literature and American rhythm and race studies. He has a...
Catherine Mann
Catherine Mann 0000000121252993 Catherine Mann is a USA Today bestselling author and RITA Award winner who has written over 60 contemporary romance books. A former theater school director with degree...
Christine Platt
Christine Platt NONE Christine Platt Patrick, also known as CP Patrick, is a Florida-born author specializing in African Diaspora narratives interlacing fiction and fantasy. She holds degrees in Afri...
Ersula Knox Odom
Ersula Knox Odom NONE Ersula Knox Odom is a renowned legacy writer and author with over 100 published articles and two biographies. She's also a motivational speaker, prize-winning lyricist, and port...
Herman J. Fountain Jr.
Herman J. Fountain Jr. NONE Rev. Dr. Herman J. Fountain Jr. is a retired psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in a Florida state prison and a former deputy warden in Kentucky. He spent 16 year...
Nahum Thermidor
Nahum Thermidor NONE Nahum Thermidor is a University of South Florida alumnus, with a focus in Social Sciences (Criminology) and minors in International Business and Financing. He has a 13-year caree...
Colette Bancroft
Colette Bancroft NONE Colette Bancroft is the book editor for the Tampa Bay Times since 2007, directs the annual Festival of Reading, and served on the National Book Critics Circle board. She holds E...
April Maria Williams
April Maria Williams NONE April Maria Williams is a Juris Doctor from Florida A&M University College of Law and a Master of Tax Law from the University of Houston. A prominent advocate for social jus...
Nikesha Elise Williams
Nikesha Elise Williams NONE Nikesha Elise Williams is a two-time Emmy award–winning producer, an award–winning author, and producer and host of the Black & Published podcast. Her lat...
Lenzy Hancock
Lenzy Hancock NONE Lenzy Leroy-Hancock is a proud father of four children who serve as his primary inspiration to strive for greatness. A retired Department of Defense employee and a veteran of the ...
Come on Florida, Let’s Race to the Top!
Come on Florida, Let’s Race to the Top! Gina Wilson Beckles Article Dr. Gina Wilson Beckles As a fourth generation Floridian, I am appalled and embarrassed that four of the eight school distric...
Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America
Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America Steve Fiffer and Adar Cohen 9781941393482 Nonfiction Regan Arts. Regan Arts. In the early months of 1965, the killin...
Hester Bass
Hester Bass NONE Hester Bass, an award-winning author, was influenced by her upbringing near Atlanta and time in Mississippi. Her diverse experiences, from singing in a rock band to appearing on game...
Lost Daughters
Lost Daughters Mary Monroe 9780758274731 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Everyone from Louisiana to Florida knows Mama Ruby—a small-town girl who became one of the South’s most notorious an...
Roy Glenn
Roy Glenn 0000000067434664 Roy Glenn, a renowned author famous for his vivid imagination, began his writing career with his self-published novel, “Is It a Crime.” The book birthed the popular charact...
OneHourWiz: Public Speaking - The Legendary, World Famous Method for Anyone to Master the Art of Public Speaking
OneHourWiz: Public Speaking - The Legendary, World Famous Method for Anyone to Master the Art of Public Speaking R. Sporty King 9781587621093 Nonfiction Aspatore Books Aspatore Books OneHourWiz: Pub...
Acoustic Rooster and Friends
Acoustic Rooster and Friends Kwame Alexander 9781534113794 Fiction Sleeping Bear Press Sleeping Bear Press Discover the world of Kwame Alexander’s Acoustic Rooster! The New York Times bestselling a...
Rapilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age
Rapilates: Body and Mind Conditioning in the Digital Age Chuck D and Kathy Lopez 9781636141749 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books Legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D has been touring the world for four...
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 9780735220171 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." —Neil Gaiman The epic novel, an African Gam...
Jake Gaither, America’s most famous Black coach
Jake Gaither, America’s most famous Black coach George E. Curry 9780396073819 Nonfiction Dodd, Mead and Company Dodd, Mead and Company Alonzo S. (Jake) Gaither, former head football coach and athletic...
The Exene Chronicles
The Exene Chronicles Camille A. Collins 9781948559058 Fiction Kindred Books Kindred Books Camille Collins has a voice like water. There is lush music in her debut novel—each word flows with purpose ...
Grenada Ghost
Grenada Ghost Lloyd Hollis Crooks 9780966629606 Fiction Wayne Brathwaite Publishing Wayne Brathwaite Publishing Grenada Ghost is a murder mystery. It speaks of America bombing the island of Grenada du...
Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823423620 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House A stunning picture book celebr...
The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)
The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel (Karen and Michael Braziller Books) Earl Lovelace 9780892552726 Fiction Persea Books Persea Books Lovelace’s classic novel of Carnival. Carnival takes on social and pol...
Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery
Do or Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery Grace Edwards 9780385492485 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Harlem’s supersleuth Mali Anderson is back on the case in the fourth installment of Grace Edwards’...
Troy Andrews
Troy Andrews 0000000114882786 Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, a Grammy-nominated artist from Tremé, New Orleans, became a band leader at six. Known for his prodigious trombone skills, he now headlin...
Keith Knight
Keith Knight 0000000036407698 “Well, you know… cats have better representation in the comics than Black people.” Keith Knight, a Boston-born cartoonist, is recognized for his unique...
Ice–T
Ice–T NONE Tracy “Ice-T” Marrow, born on February 16, 1958, is an iconic rapper, actor, songwriter, and producer, known for his influential rap albums in the '80s, Grammy-winning band Body Count, and...
Cayla Bellanger DeGroat
Cayla Bellanger DeGroat NONE Cayla Bellanger DeGroat, a White Earth Band of Ojibwe member from Minnesota, is an expert in Indigenous history and federal Indian policy. She has a BA in American Indian...
Thunder Soul
Thunder Soul Kam Williams images/thundersoul.jpg Film Review Reverential Bio-Pic Pays Tribute to Legendary H.S. Bandleader Thunder Soul Rated PG for smoking and mild epithets Running time: ...
Mos Def: Amino Alkaline ' The Watermelon Syndicate rocked the dome of Carnegie Hall
Mos Def: Amino Alkaline ' The Watermelon Syndicate rocked the dome of Carnegie Hall DuEwa M. Frazier Article On Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 8pm, presented by Festival Network in part...
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame Darrell Miller 9781939447753 Nonfiction Dunham Books Dunham Group Inc In the future, everyone will be worl...
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel Sondra Kathryn Wilson 9781451646160 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A “brassy yet deeply respectful book” (Publishers Week...
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 ...