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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...
Ronald Fair
Ronald Fair 0000000116782340 Chicago-born African-American author, Ronald L. Fair, inspired by Richard Wright, carved his own literary path. Born in 1932, Fair served in the U.S. Navy before becoming...
Harlem Book Fair
Harlem Book Fair Harlem State Office Building Plaza New York New York The Harlem Book Fair is the United State’s largest African-American book fair and the nation’s flagship Black literary...
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...
Leimert Park Village Book Fair
Leimert Park Village Book Fair Outdoor Promenade of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (BHCP) Los Angeles California See Press Release The Leimert Park Village Book Fair was founded in 2006 by Cynthia ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair)
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) Frankfurt Trade Fair Grounds Frankfurt Germany Authors read this if you plan to attend. The Frankfurt Book Fair is perhaps the world’s largest trad...
Miami Book Fair
Miami Book Fair Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus Miami Florida The Dates Shown are for the Street Fair. The entire fair typically runs 8 days The first Miami Book Fair, founded by Miami Dade Coll...
Havana International Book Fair
Havana International Book Fair Havana City Cuba Referred to as the Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana in Spanish, the fair’s main objective is the promotion of various books and authors...
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...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book ...
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...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
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...
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...
African American Children’s Book Fair
African American Children’s Book Fair Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania Check out our photos from the 2024 Festival The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of t...
Leire Salaberria
Leire Salaberria 0000000360451551 Leire Salaberria, born in Spain in 1983, is a Fine Arts graduate who specializes in Children's Illustration. She's exhibited her work globally and has been featured ...
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 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 ...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
Night at the Fair
Night at the Fair Donald Crews 9780688114831 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Step right up! Crews "(Freight Train)" gives young readers an open-ended ticket to the glittery goings-on after dar...
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...
Fair Share Publishing
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Fair Share Publishing
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Max Rodriguez
Max Rodriguez NONE Max Rodriguez is the founder and publisher of QBR/The Black Book Review, one of the nation’s premier publications dedicated to books by and about people of African descent. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden Troy Johnson Interview AALBC Founder Troy Johnson with Tonya Bolden at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Tonya Bolden has written numerous be...
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair Troy Johnson Article Toni Trent Parker, member of Black Americans in Publishing, will produce her fourth annual African American Children's Book Fair on Saturda...
Eartha Watts-Hicks
Eartha Watts-Hicks NONE Eartha Watts-Hicks is a prolific writer for various online publications, including Harlem World's Magazine's blog and TheUrbanBookSource.com. She has been the director of publ...
Greater St. Louis Book Fair
Greater St. Louis Book Fair Greensfelder Recreation Complex in Queeny Park St. Louis Missouri Greater St. Louis Book Fair is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most popular charity book sal...
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 ...
Beijing International Book Fair
Beijing International Book Fair Beijing China The BIBF - Beijing International Book Fair – is divided into several specific areas: The area of children’s books and comics, the field of in...
Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair Douglas County Fairgrounds Castle Rock Colorado The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair will have guest speakers who will discuss the Mystery genre. Once again we will ...
Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival
Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival Blalock Park Venice Florida The Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival is a small, unique program hosting writers teaching writers on Friday night, and authors sel...
Kentucky Book Fair
Kentucky Book Fair Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park Frankfort Kentucky About the Kentucky Book Fair: Since its inception in 1981, the Kentucky Book Fair has been connecting readers and authors...
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...
Harlem Crossroads
Harlem Crossroads Kam Williams Book Review ’The story I tell begins with an introductory account of how photography came to Harlem- that is, how Harlem became, after the Renaissance and at...
London Book Fair
London Book Fair Olympia London London England The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital ...
Queen City Book Fair
Queen City Book Fair Venue 8470 Charlotte North Carolina Queen City Book Fair (est. 2016 co-founders Quisha Dynae and Shmel Carter), warmly invite you to their fair! All local avid readers and anyone ...
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 ...
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 Redux
Harlem Redux Thumper Book Review Persia Walker busts on the literary scene burnin’ rubber and smokin’ with her debut novel, Harlem Redux, a multi-faceted fictional tapestry. Harlem Redux...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Ren…
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Ren… Thumper Book Review Richard Bruce Nugent is the best well-kept secret of the Harlem Renaissance. Nugent isn’t unheard of in the annals of the Renaissance; ...
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...
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair Herald Court Breezeway and adjacent streets Punta Gorda Florida Literary events take place Monday through Friday, culminating in the big one—Saturday’s street...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty Kam Williams an-oversimplification-of-her-beauty.jpg Film Review Annoying Narration Ruins Jay-Z Produced Romantic Romp An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2013)...
Winnie Mandela
Winnie Mandela Kam Williams nelsonandwinnie.jpg Film Review Jennifer Hudson Portrays Infamous Icon in Warts-and-All Biopic Winnie Mandela In Theaters: Sep 6, 2013 Limited On DVD: Dec 17,...
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) - Film Review
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Shocking Splatterflick Ups the Ante on Original’s Gratuitous Gore Kick-Ass 2 In Theaters: Aug 16, 2013 Wide Rated R for sexuality, grap...
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...
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 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...
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...
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). ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
The Harlem Cycle: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B
The Harlem Cycle: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B Chester Himes 9780862416928 Fiction Payback Press Payback Press This third omnibus edition from the Harlem Cycle sees three mo...
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...
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...
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean James Davis 9780231157841 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was ...
The Harlem Book of the Dead
The Harlem Book of the Dead James Van Der Zee 9798991036726 Nonfiction Primary Information Primary Information Available for the first time since 1978, The Harlem Book of the Dead showcases James Van ...
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Nathan Huggins 9780195063363 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as &q...
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...
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava Gary Golio 9781662680557 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator ...