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Gwen Richardson
Gwen Richardson NONE Gwen Richardson, co-founder of Cushcity.com, the largest African-American internet retailer, is a successful entrepreneur and writer with a marketing degree from Georgetown Unive...
Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson
Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson MULTIPLE Sylvia Richardson, an honors student at North Carolina Central University, is pursuing a double major in accounting and hospitality management. Her moth...
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work Gwen Richardson Article African-American authors rarely receive national recognition for their work...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2026 Edition: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education
101 Scholarship Applications - 2026 Edition: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education Gwen Richardson 9798244679229 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published We have all ...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2021 Revised Edition: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education
101 Scholarship Applications - 2021 Revised Edition: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education Gwen Richardson 9798596991383 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published We h...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2020: Revised Edition
101 Scholarship Applications - 2020: Revised Edition Gwen Richardson 9798600870208 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications We have all read the headlines featuring a fortunate col...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2018: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education
101 Scholarship Applications - 2018: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education Gwen Richardson 9781983483295 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC We have all read the headlines...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2016: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education
101 Scholarship Applications - 2016: What It Takes to Obtain a Debt-Free College Education Gwen Richardson 9781522890737 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC We have all read the headlines...
101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education
101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education Gwen Richardson 9780692360286 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications We have all read hea...
Exodus From Treachery
Exodus From Treachery Gwen Richardson 9781737449652 Fiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications It has been five years since Lloyd Palmer was promoted to his new position as editor of the ...
Boss Women
Boss Women Gwen Richardson 9781737449614 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications Boss Women features seven African-American women who started their businesses by themselves or as co...
Weekend Wealth Transfer: How Black Churches Move Billions of Dollars Out of Black Communities and How to Move It Back
Weekend Wealth Transfer: How Black Churches Move Billions of Dollars Out of Black Communities and How to Move It Back Gwen Richardson 9781539373643 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ever...
Amen Corner: How The National Media Shaped Public Opinion On Gay Marriage
Amen Corner: How The National Media Shaped Public Opinion On Gay Marriage Gwen Richardson 9780980025002 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications In 2004, Gallup polls showed that 42 ...
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...
The Genesis Files
The Genesis Files Gwen Richardson 9780980025088 Fiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications Lloyd Palmer is a reporter for the Houston Ledger, a job which should have fulfilled his lifelon...
Why African Americans Can’t Get Ahead
Why African Americans Can’t Get Ahead Gwen Richardson 9780980025019 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications Have you ever wondered why, despite decades of economic development, civi...
Clinton as Vice President Would be a Disaster for Obama
Clinton as Vice President Would be a Disaster for Obama Gwen Richardson Article As Senator Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton and h...
Top Ten Reasons Why African American Bookstores Are Closing
Top Ten Reasons Why African American Bookstores Are Closing Gwen Richardson Article Editor’s Note: On March 25, 2012 we published our new bookstore database. At the same time we also publ...
Gwen Richardson on the 2018 National Black Book Festival
Gwen Richardson on the 2018 National Black Book Festival Literary Events Gwen Richardson talks about the 2018 National Black Book Festival with Kim Coles, Eric Jerome Dickey and othersThe celebration ...
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace
You Are Wonderfully Made: 12 Life-Changing Principles for Teen Girls to Embrace Gwen Richardson and Sylvia Richardson 9781517594282 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Nominated for a 2016...
Jael Richardson
Jael Richardson NONE Jael Ealey Richardson is a Toronto-based author and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing. Known for her memoir and children's book, both titled The Stone Thrower, her work re...
National Black Book Festival
National Black Book Festival Fallbrook Church / Gymnasium Houston Texas The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored by Cushcity.com, the world’s largest African-America...
Lessons From A Younger Lover
Lessons From A Younger Lover Zuri Day 9780758238719 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Zuri Day cranks up the heat with an explosively sexy tale about a woman who’s about to get a crash course...
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...
Three Largest Africa-American Book Sites Join Force to Promote Black Literature
Three Largest Africa-American Book Sites Join Force to Promote Black Literature Troy Johnson Article January 7, 2008For Immediate Release MEDIA INQUIRIESTroy Johnson, AALBC.com, (866) 603-8394Gwen Ri...
Phd To Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life
Phd To Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life Elaine Richardson 9780984042975 Nonfiction Parlor Press Parlor Press "There was a time when Elaine Richardson was one of ’the Negroes everybody pointed to as ...
Brenda Lane Richardson
Brenda Lane Richardson NONE Brenda Lane Richardson is an award-winning author and trained minister known for her books like Story Power, Chesapeake Song and more. A former Oakland Tribune columnist, ...
Blanche Richardson
Blanche Richardson NONE Blanche Richardson, a seasoned book editor and manager of Marcus Books, one of the oldest African American owned bookstores in the US, has contributed significantly to literat...
Gwen Ifill
Gwen Ifill 0000000052256367 Gwen Ifill was a renowned journalist and editor for Washington Week and The NewsHour. Prior to PBS, she was a correspondent for NBC News and reported for notable outlets l...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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-...
The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life
The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life Jael Richardson 9781771022057 Fiction Thomas Allen Publishers Thomas Allen Publishers A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’...
Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson
Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson MULTIPLE Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson are accomplished authors. Brooks, a literary agent, specializes in young adult and children's books, while R...
Likeness of Being
Likeness of Being Jamie Walker Book Review In Likeness of Being: A Poetic Look at Friends and Strangers, poet Nathan M. Richardson offers readers an invitation to his soulful, Southern roots. Full ...
Marque Richardson - The “Dear White People” Interview
Marque Richardson - The “Dear White People” Interview Kam Williams Interview The “Dear White People” Interview with Marque Richardson Photo Credit: Jeremy Ray Valdez Marque Richardson is a hig...
Gwendolyn Osborne
Gwendolyn Osborne NONE Gwendolyn Osborne, known as “The Word Diva”, was a Chicago-based freelance writer and former associate editor for Black Issues Book Review. Known for her love of romance novels...
Julian Richardson Associates
Julian Richardson Associates Julian Richardson Associates Julian Richardson Associates
Julian Richardson Associates
Julian Richardson Associates Julian Richardson Associates Julian Richardson Associates
Gary Phillips, Kimberly Richardson, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael A. Gonzales, Milton J. Davis, Balogun Ojetade, D. Alan Lewis, A. K. Kuykendall, Sean Taylor, and Christopher Chambers
Gary Phillips, Kimberly Richardson, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael A. Gonzales, Milton J. Davis, Balogun Ojetade, D. Alan Lewis, A. K. Kuykendall, Sean Taylor, and Christopher Chambers MULTIPLE Gary Phill...
Rhiannon Richardson
Rhiannon Richardson NONE Rhiannon Richardson, author of YA rom-com The Meet-Cute Project, is a Pennsylvania-born writer and University of Pittsburgh graduate. Besides writing, she enjoys hiking, cafÃ...
PHD (Po Ho on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life
PHD (Po Ho on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life Anita Doreen Diggs Book Review PHD (Po Ho on Dope) to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life by Elaine Richardson begins in a poor and working c...
The Breakthrough: Politics And Race In The Age Of Obama
The Breakthrough: Politics And Race In The Age Of Obama Gwen Ifill 9780385525015 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political...
Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum, Tampa FL
Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum, Tampa FL Author Interviews Learn about Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum and many other independent, Black-owne...
Princess Tyler Meets The Big Storytelling Fairy
Princess Tyler Meets The Big Storytelling Fairy Candice Richardson and Tyler Richardson 9781512242836 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Princess Tyler is an adventurous little girl, with a ...
Walter Mosley, Christopher Chambers, Michael A. Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ron Fortier, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Phillips, Mel Odom, Tommy Hancock, D. Alan Lewis, Derrick Ferguson, and Kimberly Richardson
Walter Mosley, Christopher Chambers, Michael A. Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ron Fortier, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Phillips, Mel Odom, Tommy Hancock, D. Alan Lewis, Derrick Ferguson, and Kimberly Richa...
Best Books and Rich Treasures Book Store, Co-Owner Gigi Best
Best Books and Rich Treasures Book Store, Co-Owner Gigi Best Book Spotlights Gigi Best-Richardson and Skip Richardson are co-owners of the Best Books and Rich Treasures antiquarian book store located ...
The Stone Thrower
The Stone Thrower Jael Richardson 9781554987528 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all...
Black Pulp
Black Pulp Walter Mosley, Christopher Chambers, Michael A. Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, Ron Fortier, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Phillips, Mel Odom, Tommy Hancock, D. Alan Lewis, Derrick Ferguson, and Kim...
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson 9780312609344 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Even if you don’t...
The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South
The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South W. Ralph Eubanks 9780061375736 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Ran...
Salli Richardson-Whitfield - The "I Will Follow" Interview
Salli Richardson-Whitfield - The "I Will Follow" Interview Kam Williams Interview Sallie Rchardson with co-stars Omari Hardwick (L) and Blair Underwood Born in Chicago on November 23, 1967...
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America Eugene Robinson 9780767929967 Nonfiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House The African American population in the United States has always been seen as...
Lindsey McDivitt
Lindsey McDivitt NONE Lindsey McDivitt, author of “Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story” and “Truth and Honor: The President Ford Story,” writes extensively about ageism and the significance of older role ...
The Breakthrough
The Breakthrough Kam Williams Book Review ’If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream ...
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law Kam Williams Book Review We are definitely in challenging times. A lot of things so many of us fought for are being deliberately and actively ro...
Jukes and Tonks
Jukes and Tonks Gary Phillips and Michael Bracken 9781972046036 Fiction Audecyn Books Audecyn Books Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to ...
That Girl Lay Lay: Chapter Book #2
That Girl Lay Lay: Chapter Book #2 Rhiannon Richardson 9781338824995 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Lay Lay — the latest teen music sensation and Nickelodeon’s newest star — stars in this bran...
Owner of a Broken Heart
Owner of a Broken Heart Cheris Hodges 9781496723840 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. For the three very different Richardson sisters, continuing their family’s renowned bed-and-breakfast leg...
Black Pulp II
Black Pulp II Gary Phillips, Kimberly Richardson, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael A. Gonzales, Milton J. Davis, Balogun Ojetade, D. Alan Lewis, A. K. Kuykendall, Sean Taylor, and Christopher Chambers 978107...
Likeness of Being
Likeness of Being Nathan M. Richardson 9780976584209 Fiction Printcraft Press Printcraft Press Includes a compact disc of 17 poems performed by the author
Like Boogie On Tuesday (Sepia)
Like Boogie On Tuesday (Sepia) Linda Dominique Grosvenor 9781583144428 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Like Boogie on Tuesday is the story of 2 sisters, Nina Madison and Troi Singleton who struggle ...
Best Black Women’s Erotica
Best Black Women’s Erotica Blanche Richardson 9781573441063 Fiction Cleis Press Cleis Press Cleis Press’s Best Lesbian Erotica and Best Women’s Erotica series top bestseller lists, raising and exceedi...
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...
Chesapeake Song
Chesapeake Song Brenda Lane Richardson 9781567430400 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins Her thirteen-year marriage troubled by hurt and doubts, Tamra Lane embarks on a spiritual journey into her...
Testing African-American Students
Testing African-American Students Asa G. Hilliard III 9780685456088 Nonfiction Julian Richardson Associates Julian Richardson Associates
Dark salvation: The story of Methodism as it developed among Blacks in America (C. Eric Lincoln series on Black religion)
Dark salvation: The story of Methodism as it developed among Blacks in America (C. Eric Lincoln series on Black religion) Harry V. Richardson 9780385002455 Nonfiction Anchor Press Penguin Random House...
Black Inventors of America
Black Inventors of America McKinley Burt, Jr. 9780894200953 Nonfiction National Book Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. How many industries vital to America’s success have been profoundly influenc...
Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum
Best Richardson African Diaspora Literature & Culture Museum St. Augustine FL The objective of our business is to provide exceptional rare books, high quality gift items, and reliable service to our c...
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid 0000000081560368 Jamaica Kincaid, born as Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua, is a renowned novelist and essayist. She migrated to the US at 17, worked as an au pair, and later atten...
Sharon Lucas
Sharon Lucas NONE Sharon Richardson Lucas, with over 40 years in HR and sales, and 10+ years as a book club leader, has spent a lifetime planning events. Now retired, she merges her expertise with he...
What Never Happened: A Thriller
What Never Happened: A Thriller Rachel Howzell Hall 9781662504150 Fiction Thomas & Mercer Amazon Publishing It’s murder in paradise as a woman uncovers a host of secrets off the rocky California coast...
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
Righteous Troublemakers: Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America Al Sharpton 9781335639912 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton...
It Should’ve Been Me
It Should’ve Been Me ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781944359508 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Lights, camera, action… Tamara Collins is poised to become the ...
Lost Canyon
Lost Canyon Nina Revoyr 9781617753534 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nina Revoyr’s fifth novel, Lost Canyon. Booklist called it “a gripping tale of unintended adventure and profound transformatio...
A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
A Kickboxing Geishas: How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation Veronica Chambers 9780743271578 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Forget the stereotypes. Today’s Japanese women are shattering...
Snowbound with Love
Snowbound with Love Alice Wootson 9780595500413 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions ""Snowbound with Love" is a powerful romance with warm, sensual characters who seek the one thing that will make thei...
Gwendolyn R. Morris
Gwendolyn R. Morris NONE Gwendolyn R. Morris is a romantic author challenging media stereotypes of African-American women through her stories. She also penned 6 children's books. Gwendolyn R. Morris ...
Pimp: The Story of My Life
Pimp: The Story of My Life Thumper Book Review Hello All. Now, my friend Gwen hipped me to Iceberg Slim. First, with his book, Mama Black Widow and now Pimp. I didn’t know what to expect, bu...
Bay Area Book Festival
Bay Area Book Festival In Downtown Berkeley Berkeley California The Bay Area Book Festival is the primary project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit org...
Terminus 3
Terminus 3 Milton J. Davis 9798990512122 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia The ATLiens are back! Twenty-one speculative fiction stories from some of Metro Atlanta’s best Black Speculative Fiction authors. You’l...
Soundtrack
Soundtrack Jason Reynolds 9780593863466 Fiction Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds transports us back to the early 200...
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution Peniel E. Joseph 9781541675896 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of ...
The Pastor’s Heart: The Black Millionaire Club (Book 1)
The Pastor’s Heart: The Black Millionaire Club (Book 1) Marita Kinney B0DLHPJ6VZ Fiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Isaiah Richardson is a charismatic and successful pastor...
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Justice Rising: 12 Amazing Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement Katheryn Russell-Brown 9780593403549 Nonfiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A celebration of twelve Black wo...
The Family Business 6
The Family Business 6 Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt 9781645561484 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence(R) bestseller La Jill Hunt retu...
No Doubting Thomas: Hawg Whisperer My Arkansas Memoirs
No Doubting Thomas: Hawg Whisperer My Arkansas Memoirs Greg_Thomas 9781977250353 Nonfiction Outskirts Press Outskirts Press "As my grandmother told me, remember that it’s not about you when you’...
Love’s Sweet Surrender
Love’s Sweet Surrender Sheryl Lister 9781737330103 Fiction Sheryl Lister Sheryl Lister Title Unknown The moment divorcée Maxine Richardson meets Christian Davis, an unexpected and intense attr...
In Dependence
In Dependence Sarah Ladipo Manyika 9781911115779 Nonfiction Cassava Republic Press Cassava Republic Press Over 3 million copies sold Spanning four decades, the novel covers the upheavals of the era...
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital
Black Sexual Economies: Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital Adrienne D. Davis and BSE Collective 9780252084485 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press A daring collaborat...
Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell
Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart Bell Brenda M. Greene Book Review In Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement (The New Press, 2018), Dr. Janet ...