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Fire In A Canebrake

by Thumper

Fire In A Canebrake Thumper Book Review "’If all it’s going to do is stir up old memories, it can’t do anything but hurt folks. Who wants to talk about Nagasaki and Hiroshim...

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Fire in Babylon

by Kam Williams

Fire in Babylon Kam Williams images/westindianteam.jpg Film Review Cricket Documentary Recounts Rise and Dominance of West Indian Team   Fire in Babylon Click to order DVD via Amazon ...

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Faith in the Fire: Wisdom for Life

by Kam Williams

Faith in the Fire: Wisdom for Life Kam Williams Book Review "Amazingly, many people of faith and members of the reading public have not heard of Gardner Taylor or his accomplishments. Publication ...

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Chaka! Through the Fire

by Linda Watkins

Chaka! Through the Fire Linda Watkins Book Review The memoirs of high profile people command attention. The chance to get the dirt, learn the weaknesses and shortcomings of the famous and celebrated...

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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

by Robert Fleming

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire Robert Fleming Book Review Nobody will find the controversial writer, Alice Walker neutral, because of her fierce, unorthodox views. As an award-winning novelist, essayi...

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Eight Minutes of Heaven

by Robert Fleming

Eight Minutes of Heaven Robert Fleming Book Review Travis English, author of Knights of Paris, returns with his second work of fiction, Eight Minutes of Heaven, a story about Derek Treadwell, w...

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Life as a Single Mom

by Kam Williams

Life as a Single Mom Kam Williams Book Review ’’Being a single mom isn't easy,’ is something I hear constantly over and over throughout my travels, and I mostly hear it fro...

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Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders

by Kam Williams

Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of letters [offer] a rare glimpse into the dialogue between our nation&rsquo...

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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War

by Kam Williams

The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War Kam Williams Book Review “This is the story of Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70), a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist,...

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Faith under Fire

by Kam Williams

Faith under Fire Kam Williams Book Review ’God has given me the opportunity to reach scores of women, connecting with their spirits to bring understanding to the ’dow...

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Go Tell it on the Mountain

by Angeli R. Rasbury

Go Tell it on the Mountain Angeli R. Rasbury Book Review Originally Published in Sacred Fire  Go Tell It on the Mountain is considered to be James Baldwin’s greatest novel. Like muc...

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The Talented Ripkins by Ladee Hubbard

by Brenda M. Greene

The Talented Ripkins by Ladee Hubbard Brenda M. Greene Book Review Drawing from W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of the Talented Tenth, Hubbard’s debut award-winning The Talented Ribkins follows t...

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Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

by Kam Williams

Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Kam Williams Book Review “A book you can’t put down, but for all the wrong reasons.” “On May 17, 2004, ...

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What Went Wrong in Ohio

by Kam Williams

What Went Wrong in Ohio Kam Williams Book Review With the November elections just over the horizon, this might be as good a time as ever to take note of what happened in Ohio in 2004 in order to b...

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Poetic Perceptions

by Robert Fleming

Poetic Perceptions Robert Fleming Book Review Some African-American critics yearn for a return to the fire and passion of the revolutionary fervor of the 1960s Black Arts Movement, but there are ...

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Seaside Stories

by Robert Fleming

Seaside Stories Robert Fleming Book Review There should be more African-American fiction like this, recapturing a time when our communities were more-or-less intact and families were solid. S. R...

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High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

by Kam Williams

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America Kam Williams Book Review "We [African-Americans] are a race that never before existed: a cobbled together admixture of Africa, Europe, and...

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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

by Kam Williams

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work Kam Williams Book Review "There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus… suggests that it...

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Descending from the Clouds

by Kam Williams

Descending from the Clouds Kam Williams Book Review "When we finally got the order to go on D-Day, we moved to our planes, loaded our bundles in the belly racks, and saddled up. I was loaded ...

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It All Begins with ‘I’: The “New Rules” of Thinking and the Simple Secrets t

by Kam Williams

It All Begins with ‘I’: The “New Rules” of Thinking and the Simple Secrets t Kam Williams Book Review “What is your deepest desire? Probably the same thing most others really want: a happy an...

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Going Home In Chains: Stories

by Robert Fleming

Going Home In Chains: Stories Robert Fleming Book Review Glenville Lovell, one of the foremost Caribbean writers, has written several novels, including the acclaimed Fire in the Canes, Too Beautifu...

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Adam by Adam

by Thumper

Adam by Adam Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. to a young Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. If I were...

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Cry Me a River

by Thumper

Cry Me a River Thumper Book Review I have said it before, and most likely, I will say it again, but there is no drama like family drama. With Ernest Hill’s Cry Me a River, I got exactly that&...

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One Day I Saw a Black King

by Thumper

One Day I Saw a Black King Thumper Book Review Earlier this year, J. D. Mason had me singing her praises for her wonderful novel, And on the Eighth Day She Rested. Now I am at the mike again, ready ...

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Shackling Water

by Thumper

Shackling Water Thumper Book Review I awoke and discovered myself in the middle of an improvisational jazz solo of great intensity, dexterity, color and depth. I knew not the melody, the song, the st...

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Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

by Thumper

Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, ...

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Three Days Before The Shooting…

by Robert Fleming

Three Days Before The Shooting… Robert Fleming Book Review When legendary African American writer Ralph Ellison died in 1994, everyone who loves good books mourned at his passing and wondered i...

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Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL

by Amanda Robinson

Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL Amanda Robinson Book Review Atlanta is one of the most popular cities in this country. This metropolis is one of the few epicenters dripping Black ...

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Hand-Me-Down Dreams

by Robert Fleming

Hand-Me-Down Dreams Robert Fleming Book Review Phillip Wilhite’s novel, Hand-Me-Down Dreams, happens in a period in the glory days of big-league sports during 1980, when the media and baseball ...

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Love in the Age of Dragons

by Robert Fleming

Love in the Age of Dragons Robert Fleming Book Review Fatima R. Henson’s Love In The Age Of Dragons has all of the best ingredients of fantasy, speculative fiction, and science fiction. There i...

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Stepping into Womanhood: A Black Woman’s Poetic Journey

by Sister Shiree Sarana

Stepping into Womanhood: A Black Woman’s Poetic Journey Sister Shiree Sarana Book Review After reading sistah Traci Brooks’ book, Stepping into Womanhood: A Black Woman’s Poetic Journey,...

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Burial Ground

by Eryka Parker

Burial Ground Eryka Parker Book Review I recently spent time diving into the pages of Burial Ground, a collection of poetry by Glenda R. Taylor. The ethereal cover and enticing description sucked me ...

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We Refuse to Be Silent

by Robert Fleming

We Refuse to Be Silent Robert Fleming Book Review Back in 2014, after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, journalist and writer Angela P. Dodson got the idea then for her recently publi...

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The Middle Sister

by Thumper

The Middle Sister Thumper Book Review I’m still finding my footing. Being away from reading books for three years, obtaining another degree, has dulled my reading senses. Now that the...

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Leaving Atlanta

by Thumper

Leaving Atlanta Thumper Book Review Tayari Jones enters the literary scene with Leaving Atlanta, a novel that takes place in 1979 Atlanta, Georgia during what came to be known as the Atlanta Child ...

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Who Does She Think She Is

by Thumper

Who Does She Think She Is Thumper Book Review Demons and condemned souls must be having snowball fights in Hell because I not only read another Benilde Little book; I actually liked it. I know, I kn...

Film Review

Captain Phillips

by Kam Williams

Captain Phillips Kam Williams captain-phillips.jpg Film Review Somali Pirates Hold Captain Hostage in Navy SEAL Rescue Thriller Captain Phillips In Theaters: Oct 11, 2013 Wide PG-13 for intense ...

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Won't Back Down

by Kam Williams

Won't Back Down Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/wont-back-down.jpg Film Review Jaded Teacher and Single-Mom Join Forces in Uplifting Tale of Female Empowerment Won’t Back Down (2012) In ...

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The Hunger Games

by Kam Williams

The Hunger Games Kam Williams hungergames_movieposter.jpg Film Review Teens Forced to Compete in Fight to the Death in Futuristic Sci-Fi The Hunger Games [2012] In Theaters: Mar 23, 2012 Wide PG...

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