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GAME OVER by Winter Ramos Makes the Summer 2013 POWER LIST
GAME OVER by Winter Ramos Makes the Summer 2013 POWER LIST Author Interviews
Winter Ramos
Winter Ramos NONE Winter Ramos, a seasoned Hip Hop industry professional, has over 10 years of experience as a wardrobe stylist for labels and as an executive assistant to artists like Fabolous. She'...
Game Over
Game Over Winter Ramos 9781934230640 Nonfiction Life Changing Books Life Changing Books Winter Ramos, one of the new faces of VH1’s hit reality television show, Love& Hip Hop- New York Season 3 delive...
Jessica Ramos
Jessica Ramos NONE Jessica Ramos, a Medgar Evers College student with an Associate's degree in Education, is driven by her passion for teaching children. Raised in a Mexico-origin family in Brooklyn,...
Walt Goodridge and Riza Oledan-Ramos
Walt Goodridge and Riza Oledan-Ramos MULTIPLE Walt Goodridge and Riza Oledan-Ramos are professional authors with a diverse range of works. Their literary contributions span various genres and themes,...
NoNieqa Ramos
NoNieqa Ramos NONE NoNieqa Ramos is an award-winning author and educator renowned for her books 'The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary' and 'The Truth Is.' Her work has received acclaim from YALSA, Booklis...
Top 40 Books Read by African Americans
Top 40 Books Read by African Americans Troy Johnson Article Power List Best-Selling Books • Winter 2015 NAACP Image Award Literary Nominees Well Represented on Winter Edition of the Power List of ...
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...
Summer’s Heat
Summer’s Heat Mahogany Star 9781544702704 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The best lessons in life are learned through experience. Life was fabulous for Summer for her first ten years. P...
Life After Death
Life After Death Sister Souljah 9781982139131 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winter Santiaga is back! The stunning and long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million-copy, AALBC-be...
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards Troy Johnson Article All Photos © 2013 AALBC.com, LLC - Feel free to use them but please provide a photo credit to Troy Johnson, AALBC.com and a link...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II Clarence V. Reynolds A21551758v10 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College View a pdf of the cover a...
A Deeper Love Inside
A Deeper Love Inside Sister Souljah 9781439165324 Fiction Emily Bestler Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO THE COLDEST WINTER EVER At last, mega-bestselli...
The Coldest Winter Ever
The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah 9780743270106 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Considered by many to be one of the best urban fiction novels of it’ generation. Nominate...
Jonah Winter
Jonah Winter 0000000028122430 Jonah Winter, an award-winning author of 25 non-fiction picture books, is known for his bestsellers like Diego and Here Comes the Garbage Barge!. His works, including ac...
Power List Best-Selling Books • Spring 2015
Power List Best-Selling Books • Spring 2015 Troy Johnson Article Multi-Title Authors Find Success on Spring 2015 Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books May 22, 2015 ...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin 9780977342112 Fiction SoulViewWorld SoulViewWorld OLD ...
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson
Happy New Year From AALBC.com’s Troy Johnson Troy Johnson Article 2013, what a year! With so many great new books and films last year, there was a lot to celebrate. We also extended our reach through...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v4 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2013 “Impact ...
A Beautiful Evil: A Novel
A Beautiful Evil: A Novel Sister Souljah 9781668060766 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. #1 New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah returns with A Beautiful Evil, a mature, masterful...
When Winter Robeson Came
When Winter Robeson Came Brenda Woods 9781524741587 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi c...
Ty’s Travels: Winter Wonderland
Ty’s Travels: Winter Wonderland Kelly Starling Lyons 9780063083639 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A Geisel Honor-winning series! Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate...
40 Best-Selling African-American Books — Summer 2015
40 Best-Selling African-American Books — Summer 2015 Troy Johnson Article In Era of Political and Social Discontent, Titles with Political Slant Gain Traction on Summer 2015 Edition of the Power L...
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Thumper Book Review I decided to be ambitions this summer and read a number of non-fiction titles. I blame ...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Kam Williams startrek-2013-blueray.jpg Film Review Read the comments now. Read our review after you see the film (there some spoilers). Kirk Matches Wits with Rogue Co...
Your Mama
Your Mama NoNieqa Ramos 9781328631886 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A sweet twist on the age-old “yo mama” joke, celebrating fierce moms everywhere with playful lyricism and gorgeous illus...
The Furious Way
The Furious Way Aaron Philip Clark 9781643960036 Fiction Shotgun Honey Shotgun Honey Lucy Ramos is out for blood—she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-ma...
The Farm
The Farm Joanne Ramos 9781984853752 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House "Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury retreat boasting every amenity: organic meals, personal fitness trainers,...
The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports
The Game Is Not a Game: The Power, Protest and Politics of American Sports Robert “Scoop” Jackson 9781642590975 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books The Game Is Not a Game is part theory, part o...
Christine List
Christine List NONE Christine List, Ph.D. from Northwestern University, is an award-winning filmmaker recognized globally. She has received numerous grants, served as a media grant evaluator and juri...
City Summer, Country Summer
City Summer, Country Summer Kiese Laymon 9780593405567 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connect...
One Hot Summer Day
One Hot Summer Day Nina Crews 9780063204027 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins It’s summer, and it’s hot! Acclaimed author-artist Nina Crews’s debut picture book was hailed as “a wonderful concep...
Married to the Game
Married to the Game Chunichi 9780974702599 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Married to the Game is an urban tale of sex, money, murder, and mayhem and shows the pros and cons of the dr...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle Clarence V. Reynolds a21551758v12 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Killens Review of Arts & Letter...
Koch (2013)
Koch (2013) Kam Williams Interview Bittersweet Biopic Paints Evenhanded Post Mortem on Life and Times of Late NYC Mayor Koch (2013) In Theaters: Feb 1, 2013 Limited Unrated, 1 hr. 40 min. D...
Blacktrospective 2013 by Kam Williams
Blacktrospective 2013 by Kam Williams Kam Williams http://aalbc.com/reviews/20-feet-from-stardom.jpg Film Review Blacktrospective 2013 - Annual Assessment of the Best in Black Cinema Each year we pub...
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014 Troy Johnson Article Strong Sales Shown Among Hardcover Non-Fiction Titles in Fall Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-...
History of our Annual Black Pack Party
History of our Annual Black Pack Party Troy Johnson Article The Black Pack Party is a gathering of professionals across the Black book ecosystem. It was originally held annually during Book Expo Amer...
Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever
Jerry Changed the Game!: How Engineer Jerry Lawson Revolutionized Video Games Forever Don Tate 9781665919081 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Meet Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer wh...
Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism
Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism Chuck D 9781636141527 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhyth...
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 ...
Festive Mayhem 4: Thirteen Cozy and Cold Winter Holiday Mystery and Crime Fiction Stories
Festive Mayhem 4: Thirteen Cozy and Cold Winter Holiday Mystery and Crime Fiction Stories Persia Walker 9798224417056 Fiction Marla Bradeen Marla Bradeen The Festive Mayhem mystery and crime fiction a...
Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure
Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure Shauntay Grant 9781419763090 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure is a celebration of Black joy and the simple pleasures of a day in the ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads Clarence V. Reynolds A21551758v11 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College This is the most current issue....
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2017): Gathering at the Waters
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2017): Gathering at the Waters Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v9 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2017 “Gatherin...
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz Jonah Winter 9781596439634 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers "This informational picture book covers self-proclaimed "Inventor of Jazz" Jelly Roll...
March 26th 2013 – eNewsletter Highlights
March 26th 2013 – eNewsletter Highlights Troy Johnson Article Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com mourns the passing of Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 — March ...
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné NONE Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a renowned Trinidadian poet and artist, with works featured in multiple publications. She won the 2009 Caribbean Writer's Paiewonksy Prize and...
One Night Stand: From the Blank Page to Live Stags, All Within 24 Hours! (2013) - Film Review
One Night Stand: From the Blank Page to Live Stags, All Within 24 Hours! (2013) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Theater Documentary Chronicles Captivating Musicals Staged in 24 Hours One N...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories!
Who Got Game? Basketball: Amazing But True Stories! Derrick Barnes 9781523505548 Nonfiction Workman Publishing Workman Publishing From superstar author Derrick Barnes, here is a middle-grade celebrati...
Love in the Key of Summer: A Love Set in Summer novel
Love in the Key of Summer: A Love Set in Summer novel Zariah L. Banks 9798986969350 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press Love wasn’t on the agenda—until one summer night changed everything. ...
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America Cameron McWhirter 9781250009067 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A narrative history of America’s deadliest epis...
Only True Love Waits
Only True Love Waits Dwan Abrams 9781424150670 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica Xavier Robert’s life seems to be coming together. He’s engaged to be married to an incredible woman, Summer Love, a...
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game Kadir Nelson 9780316209403 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Kadir Nelson, award-winning creator, delivers the perfec...
Johnie Jay
Johnie Jay NONE Author Johnie Jay, known for his passion, made a successful debut in 2013 with his novel, “Inevitable Act I” ranking #1 on Amazon's women fiction list. Recognized by Black Expressions...
AALBC.com May 2013 eNewsletter Book Highlights
AALBC.com May 2013 eNewsletter Book Highlights Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com Best-selling Books - March to April 2013 This version of AALBC.com's eNewsletter, which focuses on book rela...
Bullet to the Head (2013) - Film Review
Bullet to the Head (2013) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Unlikely-Buddies Flick Features Cop and Hit Man on Revenge-Fueled Rampage Bullet to the Head (2013) In Theaters: Feb 1, 2013 Wide ...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature Troy Johnson xtopcities Nonfiction AALBC.com African American Literature Book Club Out of Print — Look out for a Future Edition The African A...
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia 9780060760908 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonet...
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy Robert Livingston 9798217085972 Nonfiction Crown Currency Penguin Random House Instead of waiting fo...
Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango (2013) - film Review
Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango (2013) - film Review Kam Williams Interview Musical Documentary Examines the African Roots of the Tango. Tango Negro, The African Roots of Tango (2013) U...
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! Jonah Winter 9780375868443 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books Many believe baseball great Willie Mays to be the best player that ever lived. He h...
Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat
Makeda Makes a Birthday Treat Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780063217263 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins The first title in a delightful new Level 2 I Can Read! series from acclaimed a...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com assessed the relative strengths of almost 300 American cities, to determine which ones are best able to provid...
Cranberry Winter
Cranberry Winter Ruth P. Watson 9781593099787 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Romance, suspense, and murder are at the center of this sequel to the popular Blackberry Days of Summer and A...
The Scott Joplin Rag
The Scott Joplin Rag Jonah Winter 9780358410713 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A testament to the power of creating beauty in the face of oppression, this stunning book is a stirring and insig...
30+ Must Read Books - Something for Everyone
30+ Must Read Books - Something for Everyone Troy Johnson Article Our January 2016 eNewsletter was sponsored by author Russell A. Mabane. Learn how you may sponsor an AALBC.com eNewsletter. ...
Faye Childs
Faye Childs NONE Faye Childs, born 1956, was a literary agent committed to promoting Black literature. She founded the Black Board Bestsellers list, a platform that increased visibility for Black aut...
True to the Game Omnibus
True to the Game Omnibus Teri Woods 9780063489615 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins For the first time ever, you can live through Gena and Quadir’s entire epic True to the Game journey with the whole tril...
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1)
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1) Teri Woods 9781441772343 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group True to the Game represents life on the streets, where it’s true that ...
The Zero Game
The Zero Game Brad Meltzer 9780446533164 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The New York Times bestselling author of The Millionaires and The First Counsel returns to Washington, D.C...
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) - Film Review
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Coen Bros Musical Chronicles a Couple of Weeks in the Life of Fledgling Folksinger Inside Llewyn Davis In Theaters: Dec 6, 201...
Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Jonah Winter 9780385390286 Fiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House An elderly African American woman, en route to vote,...
AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List
AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Troy Johnson Article AALBC’s Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Participating in AALBC’s Online Book Club is easy. Discussions are held on the...
Mosaic Literary Magazine #25 Summer 2009
Mosaic Literary Magazine #25 Summer 2009 Troy Johnson Article Mosaic Literary Magazine #25 Summer 2009 Related Links Mosaic Magazine http://mosaicmagazine.org
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Kimberla Lawson Roby 0000000063897135 Kimberla’s Thoughts on Concluding Her Reverend Curtis Black Series, After 15 Books Kimberla Lawson Roby is a New York Times Bestselling Author of 24 novels,...
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)
Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013) Kam Williams the-butler.jpg Film Review Forest Whitaker Delivers Oscar-Quality Performance in Emotionally-Searing Civil Rights Saga Lee Daniels’ The Butler...
Game Recognize Game - A Novel
Game Recognize Game - A Novel Terry DeRon 9780615307060 Fiction Terry DeRon Terry DeRon Game Recognize Game is a dynamic story highlighting the games and deceptions men and women use on one another wh...
Game
Game Walter Dean Myers 9780060582968 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins This thrilling basketball story from New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers is a strong choice for independent readin...
The Secret Summer Promise
The Secret Summer Promise Keah Brown 9781646141739 Fiction Levine Querido Levine Querido THE BSE (Best Summer Ever) LIST! Blueberries Art show in ShoeHorn Lizzo concert Thrift shop pop...
Lisa Watson
Lisa Watson NONE Lisa Watson is a national bestselling author based in Washington D.C., known for her work in diverse romance genres. Her debut novel was nominated for Best Contemporary Fiction, and ...
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy Bruce Watson 9780143119432 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A majestic history of the summer of ’64, whic...
Summer Snow
Summer Snow Thumper Book Review Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, is a collection of essays by Trudier Harris, based on her memories, observations and opinions that came ...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Vanessa Vanzie Book Review A combination of fun, friends and awesome adventures make for a summer vacation that you never want to end. The Legendary Alston boys are no exc...
Shyt List 2: Loose Cannon (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Shyt List 2: Loose Cannon (The Cartel Publications Presents) Reign 9780979493188 Nonfiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The most anticipated sequel and the most hated villain Yvonna Harris...
The Game Don’t Change The Players Do…
The Game Don’t Change The Players Do… Mazaradi Fox 9781617754821 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books The posthumous novel from legendary Queens rapper Mazaradi Fox, who was a member a 50 Cent’s G-Uni...
The Dating Playbook
The Dating Playbook Farrah Rochon 9781538716670 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing When a personal trainer agrees to fake date her client, all rules are out the window in this "fun, heartfe...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v5 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2...
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...
Diana Veiga
Diana Veiga NONE Go On Girl! Book Club, Unpublished Writer Award 2013 Winner Diana Veiga, winner of the 2013 Go On Girl! Book Club's Unpublished Writer award, is a dedicated writer and social justice ...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Kam Williams mandela-2013-alternate-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom In Theaters: Nov 29, 2013 Limited PG-13 for sexuality, intense violence...
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year Robert Fleming Book Review There are so many gems to be discovered in independent publishing. Every now and then, you come across the book that makes your mind sit up ...
Chicago Winter Break (School for Unusual Magic #2)
Chicago Winter Break (School for Unusual Magic #2) Liz Montague 9781338792546 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Three friends discover magic and mayhem around every corner of their school in th...
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street Lee Stringer 9781583229187 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God’s corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or h...
Tamiya Davis
Tamiya Davis NONE Tamiya Davis, a Virginia native, is a longshoreman, fashion entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. Her achievements include running a rights restoration chapter, owning a f...
The Summer of Me: A Novel
The Summer of Me: A Novel Angela Benson 9780062002723 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins The nationally bestselling author of Delilah’s Daughters and The Amen Sisters returns with a movin...
Candy Apple #27: Miss You, Mina
Candy Apple #27: Miss You, Mina Denene Millner 9780545169646 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. This book is part of our first sweet and sassy Candy Apple summer vacation trilogy! Each book focuse...