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Jelani’s Key
Jelani’s Key D. Amari Jackson 9780979637438 Fiction AALBC Books for Young Readers African American Literature Book Club “Dramatic, daring, and authentic, Jelani’s Key is a page-turning epic chock full...
Jonathan Birruete
Jonathan Birruete NONE Jonathan Birruete is a middle school student from the Washington, DC area. He wrote a review of the book Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson: Jelani’s Key is a short but power...
Jelani’s Key
Jelani’s Key Mel Hopkins Book Review Pain into Promise An immeasurable loss leads to a journey of cultural enlightenment, friendship, and self-discovery for 11-year-old protagonists Jelani and Bak...
William Jelani Cobb
William Jelani Cobb 0000000034332610 William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D., is an accomplished author, educator, and journalist specializing in post-Civil War African American history and 20th-century American ...
Harold Cruse and William Jelani Cobb
Harold Cruse and William Jelani Cobb MULTIPLE Harold Cruse & William Jelani Cobb are renowned authors. Cruse, known for his work on African-American culture & history, and Cobb, noted for his comment...
William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick
William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick MULTIPLE Jelani Cobb is a renowned author known for his collaboration with David Remnick. This information is accompanied by a photo credit to Steve Friedman, ta...
Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010!
Vote for the Best Book Trailer of 2010! Troy Johnson Article There are only 2 days left to cast your vote for the finalists of the Best Book trailer of 2010. Cast you vote now: https://bit.ly/best...
Jelani’s Key Chapter II
Jelani’s Key Chapter II D. Amari Jackson Excerpt Chapter II The Bully of Benning Road
Back to (Mysteries) School
Back to (Mysteries) School Mel Hopkins Article Is the oldest storytelling format, the monomyth, also known as The Hero’s Journey, one of the templates used for awakening the human consciousness...
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010 Troy Johnson Article Here are the winners of the Best Book Trailer's of 2010. Please join me in congratulation off of the winners. 1st Prize ...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick 9780063017597 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A collection of The New Yorker’s groundbreaking writing o...
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex Justina Ireland 9780063512979 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Few campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm have ever found the mysterious cabin hidden deep in the wood...
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key MULTIPLE Emmy and Peabody Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Keegan-Michael Key is renowned for his diverse talent in comedy and drama, with credits in Key & Pe...
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
The Essential Kerner Commission Report William Jelani Cobb 9781631498923 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company The Kerner Commission Report, released a month before Martin...
The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader
The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader Harold Cruse and William Jelani Cobb 9780312293963 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In 1967, as the movement for civil rights was turning into ...
Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-Present
Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-Present William Jelani Cobb 9780593978207 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House From one of the definitive journalists of this era — acclaim...
The Substance Of Hope: Barack Obama And The Paradox Of Progress
The Substance Of Hope: Barack Obama And The Paradox Of Progress William Jelani Cobb 9781635577426 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press For acclaimed historian William Jelani Cobb, the historic...
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic William Jelani Cobb 9780814716717 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Awar...
Obama Rises, Old Guard Civil Rights Leaders Scowl
Obama Rises, Old Guard Civil Rights Leaders Scowl William Jelani Cobb Article President Elect, Barack Obama, D-Ill. Speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memori...
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic William Jelani Cobb 9780814716700 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Awar...
Enter AALBC.com's Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition
Enter AALBC.com's Best Book Trailer for 2010 Competition Troy Johnson Article To submit your video for consideration visit: https://bit.ly/bestbooktrailer2010
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming!
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming! Troy Johnson Article I just learned about this up coming film from my online buddy, CD Burns, an hour ago. After watching the trailer, I figured I’d shar...
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key 9781797216836 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle ...
D. Amari Jackson
D. Amari Jackson 0000000530897506 D. Amari Jackson is an accomplished creator, award-winning journalist, and author known for his middle grade novel, Jelani's Key. His portfolio includes TV/web/film ...
D. Amari Jackson on Jelani’s Key and Banning Books
D. Amari Jackson on Jelani’s Key and Banning Books Book Spotlights
Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson
Jelani’s Key by D. Amari Jackson Author Interviews
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours Helen Oyeyemi 9781594634635 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of i...
Sweet Buttermilk (book trailer) by S.F. Powell
Sweet Buttermilk (book trailer) by S.F. Powell Book Spotlights
Let Us Create Your Book Trailer
Let Us Create Your Book Trailer Book Spotlights
Brenda Jackon's SolidSOUL Video Book Trailer
Brenda Jackon's SolidSOUL Video Book Trailer Book Spotlights
The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays
The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays William Jelani Cobb 9781560259770 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An unflinching collection of essays that takes on the subjects of Biggie Smalls, T...
Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931-1954
Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931-1954 William Jelani Cobb 9780231133784 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press &nb...
The Flow: New Black Poetry in Motion
The Flow: New Black Poetry in Motion Kwame Alexander 9780938818458 Poetry ECA Associates ECA Associates Alexander’s first collection of Poetry. Jelani Cobb contributes.
The Savion Sequence
The Savion Sequence Connie Bradley Book Review This review is of the 2011 version of The Savion Sequence My interest was recently piqued by a trailer which appeared on the AALBC.com discussion b...
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph Trailer
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph Trailer Author Interviews
This Opening Sky Trailer by Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman
This Opening Sky Trailer by Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman Author Interviews
Secrets Of A Housewife
Secrets Of A Housewife J. Tremble 9781934230510 Fiction Life Changing Books Life Changing Books No one ever tells the real truth about their secret bedroom play. Many fight to keep their sexual escapa...
Lee Daniels' The Butler Official Trailer
Lee Daniels' The Butler Official Trailer Author Interviews
500 YEARS LATER -Trailer
500 YEARS LATER -Trailer Author Interviews
The Kindergarten Shuffle - Trailer (AALBC.com Screening 9/23/10)
The Kindergarten Shuffle - Trailer (AALBC.com Screening 9/23/10) Author Interviews
J. Tremble
J. Tremble NONE J. Tremble, a graduate of Missouri Valley College and Howard University, works as a sixth-grade math teacher in Prince George's County Public School System. He's a dedicated family ma...
Black, Queer, and Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers
Black, Queer, and Untold: A New Archive of Designers, Artists, and Trailblazers Jon Key 9781646143764 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido Uncover oft-forgotten figures in Black and Queer art hist...
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key
Montgomery and the Case of the Golden Key Tracy Occomy Crowder 9781643795171 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books New Visions Award Winner, Tu Books It’s 2008, and ten-year-old Montgomery "Monty" Carve...
The Deserter’s Tale: The Story Of An Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From The War In Iraq
The Deserter’s Tale: The Story Of An Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From The War In Iraq Joshua Key 9780871139542 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. In the first ever memoir from a young so...
Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients To Happily Living & Loving Together
Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients To Happily Living & Loving Together Jamillah Lamb and David Lamb 9780984925001 Nonfiction Between The Lines Productions, Inc. Between The Lines Productions, ...
The Rise And Fall Of Black Wall Street: The Seven Key Empowerment Principles
The Rise And Fall Of Black Wall Street: The Seven Key Empowerment Principles Robin Walker 9781499363920 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Did you know that African Americans in Oklahoma ...
The World Wasn’t Ready for You: Stories
The World Wasn’t Ready for You: Stories Justin C. Key 9780063290426 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “The most profound terror is rooted in love—the terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in per...
The Key Bookstore
The Key Bookstore Hartford CT The Key Bookstore is a fully interactive bookstore experience. The Key engages readers through curation, activities, subscriptions, events, events, and community engageme...
Jon Key
Jon Key NONE Jonathan Key is an artist, designer, and writer originally from Seale, Alabama. After receiving his BFA from RISD, Jon began his design career at Grey Advertising in NYC before moving o...
AALBC Books for Young Readers
AALBC Books for Young Readers African American Literature Book Club AALBC.com, LLC The AALBC Books for Young Readers imprint was launched in 2023 with the upcoming publication of the middle grade nov...
Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Revised)
Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Revised) Ozlem Sensoy and Robin Diangelo 9780807758618 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College This i...
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness
Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness Donna Janell Bowman 9781620141489 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growin...
Justin C. Key
Justin C. Key NONE Justin C. Key is a practicing psychiatrist and a speculative fiction writer. He is the author of the debut novel The Hospital at the End of the World and the story collection The ...
Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life
Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life Kevin Powell 9781416592242 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Author and activist Kevin Powell and contributors Lasana Omar Hotep, Jeff Johnson, By...
We Refuse (paperback): A Forceful History of Black Resistance
We Refuse (paperback): A Forceful History of Black Resistance Kellie Carter Jackson 9781541601598 Nonfiction Seal Press (CA) Seal Press An unsparing, erudite, and incisive (Jelani Cobb, staff writ...
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland W. Paul Coates Book Review Black Top Wastland a Conversation With S A Cosby and Paul CoatesAug 30, 2020 06:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register S. A. Cosby has written a winning book ...
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland W. Paul Coates Book Review Black Top Wastland a Conversation With S A Cosby and Paul CoatesAug 30, 2020 06:00 p.m. Eastern Time Register S. A. Cosby has written a winning book ...
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Ashley D. Farmer 9780593701546 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From an award-winning historian of Blac...
My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives Charlayne Hunter-Gault 9780063135390 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins “Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voi...
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch Stanley Crouch 9781324090908 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company With Stanley Crouch’s untimely death in 2020,...
In The Black: New African Canadian Literature
In The Black: New African Canadian Literature Althea Prince 9781554830855 Nonfiction Insomniac Press Insomniac Press In a mix of short fiction, poetry, dub poetry, and hip hop, some of Black Canada’s ...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
Mother’s Day Stories
Mother’s Day Stories Troy Johnson Article Mother’s Day Stories: A Lifetime of Appreciation in a Few Words The Defenders Online http://tinyurl.com/troy-mom I have a tribute to my mom here along wi...
Video Distribution Service (http://videobookpromo.com)
Video Distribution Service (http://videobookpromo.com) Troy Johnson Article Video Distribution Service videobookpromo.com You've done the hard part; spending time and money creating your book tra...
The Weight of the Stars
The Weight of the Stars K. Ancrum 9781250101655 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers A vivid, evocative YA lesbian romance about how the universe is full of second chances Ryann Bird dreams of ...
Solemn
Solemn Kalisha Buckhanon 9781250091598 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Solemn Redvine is a precocious Mississippi girl who senses a nearby baby may be her half-sibling: the outcome of ...
Nina
Nina Kam Williams http://aalbc.com/reviews/images/nina-2016-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Saldana Successfully Channels Simone in Controversial Biopic Nina In Theaters: April Mar 22, 2016 Limite...
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road Tavis Smiley 9781401948399 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult. There are pitfalls of ego, of ...
Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels
Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore 9781478758983 Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. There is definitely an immediate emotional attachment...
Black Movie
Black Movie Danez Smith 9781943735006 Poetry Button Poetry Button Poetry "These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac biopic, make ’a dope ass trailer with a hundred black children ...
Allison Mick
Allison Mick NONE Allison Mick is a Los Angeles–based comedy and animation writer from the Great Lakes. Mick’s writing appears in Trailer Park Boys: Big A$$ Comic Collection (Devil’s Due Co...
Silk White
Silk White NONE Silk White, a best-selling urban fiction author from Harlem, New York, is also a co-owner of Good2Go Publishing and Films. He has credit for films like No Way Out & Black Barbie, and ...
Good Hair
Good Hair Kam Williams images/img1C.jpg Film Review Chris Rock’s Lighthearted Look at Sisters’ ‘Dos Arrives on DVD Good Hair Click to order from Amazon Rated PG-1...
Hairspray
Hairspray Kam Williams hairsp27.jpg Film Review Hairspray Click to order via Amazon Rated PG for teen smoking, mild epithets andsuggestive content. Running time: 107 minutes Studio: New Li...
Killer of Sheep
Killer of Sheep Kam Williams killer27.jpg Film Review Killer of Sheep Click to order via Amazon Unrated Black & White Running time: 81 minutes Studio: New Yorker Video/Miles...
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pray the Devil Back to Hell Kam Williams images/pray_t16.jpg Film Review PBS Series Documentary from Liberia Features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Pray the Devil Back to Hell premieres ...
Supremacy
Supremacy Kam Williams supremacy.jpg Film Review Supremacy In Theaters: Jan 30, 2015 LimitedOn DVD: Apr 21, 2015Rating: UnratedGenre: DramaDirected By: Deon TaylorRuntime: 1 hr. 46 min. Distributor:...
Archangels of Funk
Archangels of Funk Andrea Hairston Excerpt CINNAMON HAIR ON FIRE “Who’s afraid of the future?” Cinnamon Jones sucked a deep breath and raced downhill in the dark on fast hy...
Tracy Morgan - The “Cop Out” Interview
Tracy Morgan - The “Cop Out” Interview Kam Williams Interview Tracy Morgan as the New Black Brooklyn-born Tracy Morgan started out in showbiz in his teens, doing standup until he was in...
Bestselling DVDs for 2013
Bestselling DVDs for 2013 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/zanes-sex-chronicles.jpg Film Review Best-selling DVDs for 2013 #1 • Zane's Sex Chronicles Season 1 Click to Buy Via Amaz...
In the Key of Us
In the Key of Us Mariama J. Lockington 9781250866493 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers STONEWALL HONOR BOOK • From the author of the critically acclaimed novel For Black Girls Like Me and ...
In the Key of Us
In the Key of Us Mariama J. Lockington 9780374314101 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Stonewall Book Awards—Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Youn...
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, and Kendall Thomas 9781565842717 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press What is Critical ...
Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients To Happily Living & Loving Together
Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients To Happily Living & Loving Together Kam Williams Book Review “Jamillah and David Lamb are the dynamic couple behind the successful Off-Broadway play...
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...
Epigenomic Awareness as a Key to Black Mental Health: The Disruptive Effects of Not Knowing
Epigenomic Awareness as a Key to Black Mental Health: The Disruptive Effects of Not Knowing Benson George Cooke and Schuyler C. Webb 9781942774327 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Wri...
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement 1963 (Library Edition)
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement 1963 (Library Edition) Angela Shanté 9781338769807 Nonfiction C. Press/F. Watts Trade C. Press/F. Watts Trade Key events of the Civil Rights Movement will be broug...
The Skull Cage Key
The Skull Cage Key Thumper Book Review The Skull Cage Key, the science fiction debut thriller by Michel Marriott; takes place in 2041 Harlem, centering on the murders of rich, white people....
The Hospital at the End of the World
The Hospital at the End of the World Justin C. Key 9780063290488 Fiction Harper HarperCollins From the author of the acclaimed The World Wasn’t Ready for You comes a thrilling first novel, set in a ne...
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. ...
Speculation
Speculation Nisi Shawl 9781620149591 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books A wonderful middle-grade fantasy debut about Black families, family history, family curses … and a really marvelous pair of specta...
Night Hawks: Stories
Night Hawks: Stories Charles Johnson Excerpt The Weave Three thieves battered through a wall, crawled close to the floor to dodge motion detectors and stole six duffel bags filled with human hair ...
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded Harriet Beecher Stowe 9780486794822 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications In 1852 Ha...
Skeleton Key
Skeleton Key Jess Mowry 9781590923535 Fiction Blue Works Blue Works Thirteen-year-old Jarett Ross has been no more than a ghost for months, crying alone in the darkness where no one can hear him. A dr...
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312324087 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten b...
The Traveler’s Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to Sacred Places
The Traveler’s Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to Sacred Places John Anthony West 9780835607247 Nonfiction Quest Books Theosophical Publishing House To appreciate the extraordinary treasures of ancient ...
