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James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards Literary Events
James McBride
James McBride 0000000121485295 James McBride is a celebrated author and musician, known for his memoir 'The Color of Water' and his novel 'Miracle at St. Anna'. He has written for notable publication...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 9780593422946 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House “McBride’s pages burst with life… This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in wh...
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards W. Paul Coates Article Watch a Video of Walter Mosleys’s Introduction and Paul Coates Acceptance Speech. ...
Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul James McBride 9780812983739 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search o...
Ben McBride
Ben McBride NONE Rev. Ben McBride is an acclaimed faith leader and activist known globally as a speaker. Founder of Empower Initiative and Bring the HEAT campaign, and former director of PICO Califor...
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, 10th Anniversary Edition James McBride 9781594481925 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-d...
Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong James McBride 9780735216723 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel...
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging Ben McBride 9781506489858 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Can you imagine a future that includes your enemies? If not, what happens next? ...
Five-Carat Soul
Five-Carat Soul James McBride 9780735216693 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Humorous, “feel good” new fiction from James McBride, the first since The Good Lord Bird, one of the bestselling, most cr...
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...
Amber McBride
Amber McBride NONE Amber McBride, an English literature professor at Northern Virginia Community College, holds degrees in English and Creative Writing. She's published work in various outlets and au...
Thick with Trouble
Thick with Trouble Amber McBride 9780143137474 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanho...
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna James McBride 9781573229715 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award fo...
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna Thumper Book Review I wish all of my review assignments were like this one. It came upon me unexpectedly. I don’t need advance warnings when good things come my way, thoug...
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures)
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures) Dwight McBride 9780814756850 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Why hate Abercrombie? In a world...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999719 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An urgent examination of free speech in America—addressing “cancel culture,” “accep...
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...
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird James McBride 9781594632785 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A 2013 National Book Award Winner! Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at ...
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...
The Leaving Room
The Leaving Room Amber McBride 9781250908087 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about...
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth Manu Ampim 9781574780574 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Finally, proof that the Willie Lynch Speech is a hoax! Supposedly giv...
The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream
The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Kam Williams Book Review “A great speech is both timely and timeless. First and foremost, it must touch and move its immediate ...
Song Yet Sung
Song Yet Sung James McBride 9781594483509 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fict...
Gone Wolf
Gone Wolf Amber McBride 9781250850478 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade novel th...
Onyx & Beyond
Onyx & Beyond Amber McBride 9781250908780 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade...
Me (Moth)
Me (Moth) Amber McBride 9781250780362 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family,...
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback)
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback) James McBride 9780593422953 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House The Runaway New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book • A New Yo...
James McBride - National Book Award Finalist Reading 2013
James McBride - National Book Award Finalist Reading 2013 Poetry & Spoken Word
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology Amber McBride 9780063225299 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Starring thirty-seven poets, with ...
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters Toni Morrison 9780375400322 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin...
James W. Lewis
James W. Lewis NONE James W. Lewis, an award-winning novelist and freelance writer, is a managing partner at The Pantheon Collective publishing company. Known for his debut novel 'Sellout', he has re...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999726 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Named one of Newsweek’s 25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape th...
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream Gary Younge 9781608463220 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED his powerful I Have a Dream” spe...
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013 Author Interviews
We Are All So Good at Smiling
We Are All So Good at Smiling Amber McBride 9781250780386 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-ver...
Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony
Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony Dwight McBride 9780814756058 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Even the most cursory review of black literary p...
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword David K. Shipler 9780307947611 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America With his be...
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...
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence Useni Eugene Perkins 9780940975866 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. On a humid March night in 1957, Kwame Nkrumah made history. While thous...
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback Jacob Carruthers 9780907015949 Nonfiction Karnak House Karnak Hous...
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards
36 African-American Nominees for National Book Awards Troy Johnson Article November 11, 2015 Update: A complete list of National Book Award Honorees, of African descent, is now available. The mi...
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights William P. Jones 9780393082852 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A brilliant history that go...
Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism in Keynote Speech Delivered at Medieval Studies Conference
Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism in Keynote Speech Delivered at Medieval Studies Conference Kam Williams Interview Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism...
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,...
A Journal for Jordan (Movie Tie-In): A Story of Love and Honor
A Journal for Jordan (Movie Tie-In): A Story of Love and Honor Dana Canedy 9780593442937 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful...
A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor
A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor Dana Canedy 9780307396006 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful account of a f...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 9780593743775 Fiction Random House Large Print Penguin Random House
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird"
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird" Author Interviews
Audrey Niffenegger, Meg Wolitzer and James McBride
Audrey Niffenegger, Meg Wolitzer and James McBride Author Interviews
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother James McBride Excerpt CHAPTER ONE Dead I’m dead. You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty y...
James Hickman
James Hickman NONE James “Bullet” Hickman, a national best-selling author and CEO, transformed his life from a history of institutionalization to become a successful entrepreneur. Overcoming adversit...
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes Charisse Carney-Nunes Article The Lit Bit Wall Street is in for another invasion… no, not just more protestors armed with ...
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...
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...
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...
National Book Awards
National Book Awards Cipriani Wall Street New York New York Attendance by invitation only. All of the authors of African descent who have won a National Book Award. Watch vidoes the 67th annual Nati...
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman Maegan Parker Brooks 9781538115947 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield “[T]his is a testimonial to a courageous woman and her deep c...
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 ...
Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka 0000000037525872 Adrian Matejka is a Germany-born, Indiana-based author and educator. A graduate of Indiana University and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, he has penned award-...
John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan
John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan Author Interviews
E.L. Doctorow Medal for Distinquished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech
E.L. Doctorow Medal for Distinquished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech Author Interviews
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation Barry Wittenstein 9780823443314 Nonfiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House "Barry Wittenstein’s poetic text provides the c...
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063351042 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech “I’ve Been to the Mounta...
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9780230337558 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers "I have a dream." When tho...
The Hiptionary: A Survey Of African American Speech Patterns With A Digest Of Key Words And Phrases
The Hiptionary: A Survey Of African American Speech Patterns With A Digest Of Key Words And Phrases Mahmoud El-Kati 9780967558172 Nonfiction Papyrus Publishing Inc. Papyrus Publishing Inc. Hiptionary?...
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent Anne Rockwell 9781467749336 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Told for the first time in picture...
James Forman
James Forman 0000000071399777 James Forman is the father of renowned legal scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, James Forman Jr. James Forman James Forman is the father of legal scholar and ...
Lebron James
Lebron James 0000000033823012 LeBron James, an acclaimed basketball player with three NBA championships, two Olympic golds, and four MVP titles, is also recognized for his philanthropy. Raised in Akr...
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...
Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade
Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade Yohuru Williams 9781665902786 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A moving and inspiring nonfiction ...
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...
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance James Baldwin 9781636811321 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in h...
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years Kadija Sesay and Cheryl Robson 9781913641412 Nonfiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications Encounters with James Baldwin celebrates the c...
James A. Forbes
James A. Forbes 0000000384654492 Reverend Dr. James Alexander Forbes, Jr., born in 1935, is the first African American leader of the Riverside Church, NY. Despite facing racial discrimination, he com...
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer Quartez Harris 9780316483933 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Discover the story of young James Baldwin in this ode to th...
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...
Thulani Davis
Thulani Davis 0000000001538348 Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer, with focus on black political thought, slavery, and African American literature. She's a recipient of numerous...
Nick Chiles
Nick Chiles 0000000034375194 Nick Chiles is a renowned author and journalist, specializing in African-American culture and celebrity. Co-author of the NAACP Image Awards finalist book 'Justice While ...
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...
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact
National Book Awards Honors IBPA Members’ Impact Troy Johnson Article This article was originally published in the April 2025 issue of the IBPA Independent magazine, the magazine for members of the I...
James Ransome
James Ransome 0000000030399412 James E. Ransome is an award-winning illustrator known for his children's books. His accolades include the Coretta Scott King Award, IBBY Honor Award, and NAACP Image A...
James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson 0000000120206864 James Weldon Johnson was a legendary civil rights activist, renowned author, and key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. His diverse career spans roles as a U.S. c...
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Sondra Kathryn Wilson NONE Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson was a senior associate at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, and executor of Johnson’s literary e...
Nate Powell
Nate Powell 0000000078269174 Nate Powell, born in 1978, is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist known for “March,” the autobiography of John Lewis. A self-publisher from age 14, Powell's aw...
James Earl Hardy
James Earl Hardy 0000000042416478 James Earl Hardy is the author of the bestselling B-Boy Blues series, including B-Boy Blues, which has been praised as the first gay hip hop love story and is celeb...
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...
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...
James Forman Jr.
James Forman Jr. 0000000046875532 James Forman Jr., Yale Law School professor and former Supreme Court clerk, is a prolific writer featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic. His notable achieve...
Anthony Grooms
Anthony Grooms 0000000034968192 Anthony “Tony” Grooms, born in 1955, is a respected author and instructor at Kennesaw State University. With degrees in theatre, speech, and English, Grooms has receiv...
38th NAACP Image Awards (2007)
38th NAACP Image Awards (2007) Kam Williams Article Image Awards Upstaged by Resignation of NAACP President 38th NAACP Image Awards (2007) by Kam Williams &nb...
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates 0000000036544350 “I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died…clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates.” —To...
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah 0000000110549118 Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister and president, led the country to independence from Britain in 1957 and ruled until a 1966 coup. His time in the U.S. greatl...
Jerald Walker
Jerald Walker NONE Jerald Walker is a distinguished author known for his memoirs and essays, with recognitions like the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction and honors from the National Book Awa...